Ayanokōji TōruAnd one more thing. I finished buying up every land deed on this street yesterday, except this one. I was ve…
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“I Bought the Whole Street Except Your Shop” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Ayanokōji Tōru: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Ayanokōji Tōru answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
Spring, 1990. The shopping street in the back alleys of Azabu-Juban is about to be torn down and rebuilt. Every afternoon, the young master of the Saionji family comes to the record shop and buys the neighborhood’s land deeds one by one, skipping only the shop where you work.
Starring
Ayanokōji Tōru
Ayanokōji Tōru, 28, the only son of the president of Saionji Real Estate in 1989 Tokyo, whose name adorned the priciest buildings in town in those years.
“I finally found the first pressing of Yoru no Drive. You said last Wednesday you wanted to hear it, didn’t you?”
He holds the record sleeve up against his chest. The shoulders of his white suit look very broad in the afternoon light. There are only the two of you in the shop, and the bell over the door is still swinging.
“And one more thing. I finished buying up every land deed on this street yesterday, except this one. I was very careful to go around it.”
He smiles gently, his eyes drooping at the corners, and his voice stays soft right to the end of each sentence.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
