TWILIGHT SYNDROME
[START GAME] [OPTIONS]
[I just took a quick look at the options where you can apparently change the window colour and check out photos/recordings you take throughout the game.]
A: What happened so far B: Begin the game
A: What happened so far [X] B: Begin the game
"It always started with Mika..."
"Mika Kishii, a first-year at the metropolitan Hinashiro High School."
"No one loved rumours and gossip as much as her, and it always started with her coming to us with some new mysterious rumour that she'd picked up..."
"Waiting for us beyond these rumours was always a mysterious world we had never seen before..."
"Yukari and I were dragged into adventures beyond what we could have ever imagined."
"My friend Yukari... She's a second-year at Hinashiro High School. Her full name is Yukari Hasegawa."
"We've been friends since childhood, and to be honest, she actually hates everything scary and horror-related."
"And yet, because she always pretends to be tougher than anyone else, she hasn't turned down Mika's invitations even once."
"Which is how she always ends up being the leader of our adventures, guiding us through it all."
"Because of that... I, Chisato Itsushima, also a second-year of Hinashiro High School, can only do one thing:"
"I stay at Yukari's and Mika's side and try to watch over them as best I can."
"I wonder how much longer we will be able to continue with these dangerous adventures?"
"As for that world we have been peeking into..."
"One could say that hidden in this city where people calmly live their lives, beyond the pitch-black depths of night..."
"...lies a world filled with the sadness, hatred and... fear of innumerable people."
MIKA: "Hey, you've gotta listen to this! There's this super weird person!"
YUKARI: "What's so weird about them?"
MIKA: "That person is using a desk in the library close to the windows to leave, like, some messages for others to read."
MIKA: "And, you see..."
MIKA: "They wrote that they were looking for a friend and were hoping that someone would exchange messages with them through this desk."
MIKA: "Makes you laugh, doesn't it?"
YUKARI: "Must be someone with a lot of free time on their hands."
MIKA: "Right?"
MIKA: "Well, I'm keeping them company, so I guess I have a lot of free time, too."
CHISATO: "What do you mean...?"
MIKA: "Oh well, they seemed so serious, so I just decided to write an answer."
YUKARI: "You get carried away pretty easily..."
MIKA: "Do you perhaps know anyone at our school that goes by the initials of S. H.?"
YUKARI: "S. H.? Not really..."
MIKA: "It's the one I'm exchanging messages with. They wrote they're a second-year."
«Dear Mika, thank you very much for your reply!»
«I never expected anyone to actually write back to me, so I am really happy!»
«Although it's one of these library's various desks, not many people come to this particular one. It's a strange place.»
«It would make me very happy, if this exchange of messages between just you and me could continue happily forever.»
«......»
«S. H.»
«Dear Mika, how are you?»
«I know, I'm one class above you, but that does not mean you have to be particularly polite to me.»
«As for what exact class I'm in and what my real name is, that will have to stay a secret. I'm sorry...»
«There's no deeper meaning behind me keeping that secret, I'm just still a bit embarassed about all this.»
«......»
«Let me write some more about myself.»
«My favourite school subject is... classical literature perhaps? ...I really enjoy reading books, so I frequently come to the library.»
«I recently started reading 『The Wind Has Risen』. It's a sad love story that takes place in a sanatorium!»
«What kind of literature do you like, Mika?»
«It has been a while since I last wrote here. I apologise for that.»
«I have never heard of "My Little Lover". Is that a foreign song?»
«I am rather poorly informed when it comes to popular music...»
«But I can play piano a little. The other day, I finished practicing Nocturne!»
«I am sorry.»
«I feel like my reply has angered you somewhat, dear Mika.»
«I am a bit different from the people around me, so I may have written something strange.»
«It might be, because I'm so shy, but I don't talk that much with my friends. Because of that, I'm not very familiar with what is popular these days and what is not.»
«If you do not mind, would you perhaps care to teach me a bit about what is popular these days through these messages that we exchange here?»
«I'm mostly in the library after school.»
«From the window here I can see the schoolyard. I enjoy watching everyone from here, when they are doing their club activities out there.»
«Perhaps we can meet at this desk someday.»
MIKA: "...Yukari, I'm... beginning to feel kind of... scared..."
MIKA: "This S. H. person... doesn't seem normal."
YUKARI: "What do you mean?"
MIKA: "How should I put it... He or she doesn't give off the vibe of a high schooler from this day and age..."
MIKA: "It feels like I'm writing to a person from a long time ago..."
YUKARI: "...Well, if it creeps you out that much, then why not just stop exchanging messages?"
MIKA: "Yes, that's what I think, too, but... For some reason, I cannot stop..."
CHISATO: "Yukari..."
CHISATO: "I've heard a worrying rumour..."
YUKARI: "What about?"
CHISATO: "It concerns Mika..."
CHISATO: "It's about the desk scribbles in the library she mentioned. It seems they have become... strange."
YUKARI: "Strange...?"
CHISATO: "Apparently the scribbles started saying things like «I'll die soon» or «I'm lonely»."
YUKARI: "......"
CHISATO: "I just hope, Mika doesn't get involved in something really weird..."
«Dear Mika, thank you for teaching me all these things until now.»
«......It made me really happy. But I...»
«I might not be able to continue replying...»
«Perhaps we won't be able to meet anymore like this...»
«Soon, I am going to die...»
«This is something that has been decided a long time ago.»
«It's my fate... That's what I have been told since I was a child.»
«My mother passed away immediately after I was born.»
«My sister died three years ago... So now it is my turn...»
«That is all there is to it...»
«Mika... Do you think there is an afterworld? A world we end up after we die?»
«I have heard that it is a very dark and cold place...»
«Ever since I was little, I tried to be prepared for this, but when I think about the fact that it is going to happen... soon...»
«It terrifies me, after all...»
«Mika... Dying all alone feels... very lonely.»
«Mika... Soon, I will have to say farewell to you.»
«It seems like I really do have to go...»
«But, before that...»
«I want to meet you, Mika...»
«Today, I am leaving.»
«Please meet with me just once, before I go.»
«I will be waiting for you at 6 pm at the shrine in the mountains.»
«S. H.»
TEACHER: "That's «The Wind Has Risen», right? So it has finally turned up again..."
YUKARI: "Turned up again...?"
TEACHER: "Yeah. For a long, long time, I couldn't find it anymore."
TEACHER: "A very long time ago, must have been 30 years or so...? Anyway, back then I had just graduated when a female student donated this book to the library."
TEACHER: "She was what you would have called a bookworm girl back in those days. Would hole herself up in the library all day, you know."
TEACHER: "Probably didn't have any friends, either, I'm guessing... You'd always see her all alone in the library, reading books..."
TEACHER: "She was rather pretty, but..."
YUKARI: "Did something happen to her?"
TEACHER: "There's a cliff in the mountains behind this school, right?"
TEACHER: "She had an accident there and fell to her death."
CHISATO: "......!"
CHISATO: "I am sorry, but... do you happen to know the name of this girl...?"
TEACHER: "Her name, huh... Let's see..."
TEACHER: "Ah! There's a stamp showing that the book is a donation. She probably signed it there!"
YUKARI: "On the back cover...? Here!"
YUKARI: "Year of donation: Shouwa 38 [=1963]. Donated by: Sakura Himegami."
YUKARI: "Sakura... Himegami..."
YUKARI: "S. H.!"
CHISATO: "There she is!"
YUKARI: "What is she doing in such a place..."
CHISATO: "Quick, Yukari!"
YUKARI: "Mika..."
MIKA: "......"
YUKARI: "What the hell are you doing here? I waited for you to come back from the library..."
YUKARI: "Mika...?"
MIKA: "......"
YUKARI: "Come on, let's go home already..."
MIKA: "I..."
YUKARI: "Hm?"
MIKA: "I have to go..."
YUKARI: "You have to go? Go where?"
MIKA: "To S. H. ..."
CHISATO: "Mika! No! You can't!"
YUKARI: "Mika!"
YUKARI: "Ah!!!"
TWILIGHT SYNDROME INVESTIGATION
"Mika!"
"Mika?!"
"Mikaaa!"
YUKARI: "Where... Where did she go..."
CHISATO: "Yukari... I don't think there's any point in searching here..."
YUKARI: "But..."
CHISATO: "I can sense it somehow... Mika is still somewhere in these mountains."
CHISATO: "But... we won't be able to find her like this."
YUKARI: "Well, then what are we supposed to do!?"
YUKARI: "She's here, but we won't be able to find her? What kind of explanation is that?!"
CHISATO: "...Yukari. Mika was floating and then disappeared in mid-air."
YUKARI: "I know! We both saw that!"
CHISATO: "That's why..."
CHISATO: "...I think that instead of searching for Mika, it might be better to first investigate the person who took her away..."
YUKARI: "What person?! What are you talking about!"
CHISATO: "I mean the person that called her here using the library desk to exchange messages."
YUKARI: "You mean... S. H. ...?"
CHISATO: "Yes... Sakura Himegami."
YUKARI: "But... Sakura Himegami is already dead..."
CHISATO: "Still, I don't think all these messages on that library desk were just a prank by someone."
CHISATO: "I mean, would anyone really go through all the trouble of investigating such an old incident to then use it for writing fake messages on a desk?"
YUKARI: "......"
CHISATO: "And... I don't think that Sakura Himegami had any sort of malicious intent..."
CHISATO: "So if we can find out the reason why she called Mika to this shrine, then maybe..."
YUKARI: "But how would we even do that..."
CHISATO: "Yes, about that... The point of connection between Mika and Sakura is the library, right?"
YUKARI: "So you're saying, if we check out the library once more..."
CHISATO: "Yes."
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "Alright, let's hurry!"