The phone in the lost-and-found box holds a number that hasn't rung in three years
Tsuyoshi OnizukaDon't be nervous. You worked the night shift yesterday, and after handover this morning you didn't leave, ri…
What do you do?
“The phone in the lost-and-found box holds a number that hasn't rung in three years” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Tsuyoshi Onizuka: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Tsuyoshi Onizuka answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery and Urban. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
You work the early shift at a convenience store in Shinjuku. The day before, a customer dropped a black phone with a cracked screen into the lost-and-found box. At half past six in the morning, a man in a rumpled suit stands at the register and asks: when was it put in? An hour ago, this phone received a text that read “Twelve o'clock, North Exit.”
Starring
Tsuyoshi Onizuka
Tsuyoshi Onizuka, 39, is a police sergeant in the criminal division of the Shinjuku Police Station.
“Black, with a crack across the screen. When was it put in the lost-and-found box?”
A man stands at the register, his dark gray suit rumpled, his tie loose, bluish shadows of sleeplessness under his eyes. He presses a small black notebook onto the counter without opening it, and his gaze never leaves your face.
“Don't be nervous. You worked the night shift yesterday, and after handover this morning you didn't leave, right? This phone received a text an hour ago that read ‘Twelve o'clock, North Exit.’ I want to know who would set up a meeting through a phone sitting in a lost-and-found box.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
