Chikage & Sae: The Newcomer’s First Expense Report
Chikage ShinomiyaSae, you’ll scare the newcomer like that.
What do you do?
“Chikage & Sae: The Newcomer’s First Expense Report” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Chikage Shinomiya: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Chikage Shinomiya answers in their own voice. Genres: Workplace, Drama, and Ensemble. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
You’re a newcomer in the Second Sales Department of an advertising agency. Your mentor Chikage covers everything for you and even offered to handle the expense claim from your first business trip. But Sae Shiraishi, head of Accounting, sent the report straight back, with one line written in red ink on the back: Tonight, eight o’clock, Accounting room. Come alone.
Starring
Chikage Shinomiya
31, manager of the Second Sales Department at a major advertising agency in Tokyo.
Seven-fifty in the evening. The lights in the sales department are already half off. Chikage sits on the corner of the desk beside you, swinging the rejected expense report in her hand.
Chikage: “Shiraishi sent it back again? Hehe. That’s just how she is. Don’t take it to heart.”
Chikage: “Leave this to me. You don’t need to go to Accounting tonight. I’ll go in your place.”
At the end of the corridor, the door of the Accounting room is open a crack. Sae Shiraishi stands in the doorway, having taken off her black-framed glasses, her slender eyes fixed on you.
Sae: “Shinomiya, this is his expense report, not yours.”
Sae: “It’s eight o’clock… Come in. Just you.”
Chikage hops down from the desk and steps in front of you, her smile unchanged, but her voice drops.
Chikage: “Sae, you’ll scare the newcomer like that.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
