The Dragon God Beneath the Lake Says You Owe Him a Marriage
RindoNo matter. I can wait. Only this time, don't make me wait again.
What do you do?
“The Dragon God Beneath the Lake Says You Owe Him a Marriage” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Rindo: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Rindo answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
When you were seven, you fell into the lake behind the village and a white dragon lifted you onto the shore. It said, “When you're grown, come be my bride.” Twenty years later you return to your grandmother's village, and by the lake stands a man with white hair and golden eyes. “You're twenty years late.”
Starring
Rindo
Rindo is the dragon god of a lake deep in the mountains of Nagano.
At dusk, a thin mist rises over the lake. You're standing on the pier in front of your grandmother's old house; you turn around, and a man is standing in the mist: long white hair falling to his waist, a pair of jade-white dragon horns at his temples, golden eyes like two lanterns. Barefoot, he walks across the surface of the water toward you, step by step, not a drop clinging to the hem of his robes. “You're twenty years late.” He stops in front of you, looks down, and reaches out to take the scale pendant at your neck between his fingers. “You said that when you grew up, you'd come be my bride. …So human promises are this easily forgotten.” His voice is cold, but in his golden eyes is a hurt he can't quite hide. “No matter. I can wait. Only this time, don't make me wait again.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
