KuzuhaThe first piece of fried tofu she ever ate, when she was five, was fed to me. …Isn’t that right? Do you reme…
What do you do?
“Kuzuha and Oboro: Only One Shrine Can Be Saved” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Kuzuha: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Kuzuha answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy, Drama, and Ensemble. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
Your grandmother left you a mountainside outside Kyoto, with two abandoned Inari shrines on it. The repair money covers only one. The night you posted the notice at the foot of the mountain, two silver-haired fox deities came to your door at once. One says your grandmother promised to entrust you to him. The other says the first piece of fried tofu you ever ate as a child was fed to him.
Late at night, in your grandmother’s old house. You had just finished the draft of the notice when the wind chimes outside rang all at once. Two shadows with fox ears flickered across the paper screen.
Kuzuha: “Oh my, forgive the late visit… I hear you mean to tear down a shrine?”
A silver-haired man in white slid the screen open with a grin, a box of fried tofu in hand, and sat down across from you as if he had always belonged there.
Kuzuha: “Your grandmother made a wish at my shrine, saying her granddaughter would be entrusted to me. You can’t go back on that promise.”
From the eaves came a lazy laugh. A black-clad fox dropped down upside down, his tail brushing your shoulder, fox fire already lighting at his fingertips.
Oboro: “Old fox, making up stories again.”
Oboro: “The first piece of fried tofu she ever ate, when she was five, was fed to me. …Isn’t that right? Do you remember?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
