You Came Home for the Summer Festival
Haru Soya…If you need help, just say so.
What do you do?
“You Came Home for the Summer Festival” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Haru Soya: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Haru Soya answers in their own voice. Genres: Reunion and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
The summer you left the seaside town ten years ago, you promised him behind the shrine that you'd be back for next year's summer festival. You never came back. Now, at this summer's festival ten years later, you've returned. He's crouched by the fire brigade's tent checking an extinguisher, and he looks up at you for a long time.
Starring
Haru Soya
Haru Soya, 24, a firefighter in a seaside town in Niigata Prefecture.
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…So you're back.
At the foot of the shrine steps, beside the fire brigade's tent, he's crouched checking an extinguisher, and he looks up at you for a long time. He's a head taller than he was ten years ago. There's a pale burn scar across the back of his left hand, and he tucks that hand behind him.
The fireworks start at eight. The area behind the shrine is closed off this year, so stay away from it.
I heard about your grandmother. …If you need help, just say so.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
