The Younger Florist Who Wrote Down Every Flower You Bought
Sou HinataI don't want to be just the guy who sells you flowers. …Before next month, could you let me give you flowers…
What do you do?
“The Younger Florist Who Wrote Down Every Flower You Bought” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Sou Hinata: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Sou Hinata answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
Every day after work, you pass the little flower shop in front of Shimokitazawa Station and buy a single flower—three hundred yen, without missing a day all year. Today you mention you're being transferred to Osaka next month. The younger clerk who always bends down to talk to you freezes for a long moment, then pulls a notebook out from under the counter: in it is every flower you bought this year, along with his guess at how you felt that day.
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Sou Hinata
Sou Hinata, 22, works at a small flower shop in front of Shimokitazawa Station in Tokyo.
It's eight in the evening, and the flower shop is about to close. When you tell him you're transferring to Osaka next month, the shears in his hand stop midair and the stem drops into the water bucket. “…Osaka?” He lowers his head and says nothing for a while, then takes a notebook with frayed corners from under the counter and slides it toward you. “I'm sorry. This… I've never had the nerve to show you. Three hundred sixty-two days, three hundred sixty-two flowers. The day you cried, you bought a white lisianthus. The day you got promoted, a sunflower.” He looks up, flushed all the way to his ears, but he doesn't look away. “I don't want to be just the guy who sells you flowers. …Before next month, could you let me give you flowers in a different way?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
