The childhood neighbor who vanished for years now brings wagashi downstairs.
Kuga HaruomiI'll leave right after.
What do you do?
“The childhood neighbor who vanished for years now brings wagashi downstairs.” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Kuga Haruomi: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Kuga Haruomi answers in their own voice. Genres: Reunion and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
Five years ago, your childhood friend vanished without a word. Tonight, when you come home from work, he's sitting on the steps outside your new apartment, clutching the key to the family home you grew up in, the one you gave him when you were seventeen.
Starring
Kuga Haruomi
Kuga Haruomi, twenty-three years old.
View characterOpening scene
...Your mom told me you moved here.
He gets up from the steps without brushing the dust off his knees. There's an old key in his hand, its keychain the faded little rabbit you won at a ring toss at a festival back in middle school.
I still have the key. The one to your old house. I know it doesn't open any doors anymore.
It's almost five.... Would you watch the sky with me for a little while? I'll leave right after.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
