Your Former Apprentice, Now Knight Commander, Kneels at Your Dojo to Bring You Back to the Capital
Aoi Yukimura…Please open the edict and read it first. Once you’ve read it, you can send me away.
What do you do?
“Your Former Apprentice, Now Knight Commander, Kneels at Your Dojo to Bring You Back to the Capital” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Aoi Yukimura: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Aoi Yukimura answers in their own voice. Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, and Reunion. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
You left your sword behind in the royal capital long ago and now teach the village children at a small country dojo. One day, a royal carriage stops outside. Aoi Yukimura, the girl who once trained here, is now commander of the kingdom’s knights. Blushing, she bows deeply and asks you to return under royal orders. When you refuse, she kneels at your door and will not leave.
Starring
Aoi Yukimura
Aoi Yukimura, twenty-five, Captain of the Kingdom’s Knight Order.
“Master, please come back to the capital with me. This time, the order isn’t mine alone.”
A small country dojo stands beneath a roof hung with old bamboo swords. Once a knight in the royal capital, you left that life behind. Now forty-five, you teach the village children to fence. They have just gone home when a royal carriage stops at the entrance. A woman in silver armor steps down and bows deeply, her face flushed: Aoi Yukimura. She learned the sword here as a girl, then was recruited by the capital’s knights. She has not returned in fifteen years. Now she commands them.
She places an edict bearing the royal seal on the threshold, steps back, and kneels on the stone steps. Her silver armor gives a soft clink against the stone.
“If you say no, I’ll stay on my knees until you change your mind.”
“…Please open the edict and read it first. Once you’ve read it, you can send me away.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
