🇯🇵 Japanese Title:
愛佳の沈黙
(Aika no Chinmoku)
Aika’s Silence
🎯 Theme:
Following the mysterious name from the forgotten records, Hana and Yuki begin their search for Sorano Aika. But every trail leads to silence—missing archives, people who refuse to speak, and fading memories.
As they piece together her story, they discover that silence itself can hide both truth and pain. What was Aika trying to protect by disappearing from history?
📍 Setting:
- Abandoned observatory on the edge of town
- Town historian’s dimly lit archive room
- Aika’s childhood home, now boarded up
- Foggy lakeside where Aika once stargazed
📚 Vocabulary
| Japanese | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沈黙 | ちんもく | silence |
| 真実 | しんじつ | truth |
| 保つ | たもつ | to protect, preserve |
| 記憶 | きおく | memory |
| 忘却 | ぼうきゃく | oblivion, forgetting |
🗣️ Useful Phrases
| Japanese | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 誰も彼女を覚えていない。 | No one remembers her. |
| 沈黙が何かを守っている。 | The silence is protecting something. |
| 記録が消されてる…？ | The records have been erased…? |
| これは忘れられるべきじゃない。 | This shouldn’t be forgotten. |
| 彼女の声を、取り戻そう。 | Let’s bring back her voice. |
💡 Grammar Focus
| Grammar Point | Usage | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 〜てしまう (end up doing, regretfully) | 記録が消されてしまった。 | The records ended up being erased. |
| 〜べき (should/ought to) | 忘れられるべきじゃない。 | It shouldn’t be forgotten. |
| 〜ように見える (seems like) | 沈黙が守っているように見える。 | It seems like the silence is protecting something. |
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🎥 Dialogue
[Scene: The abandoned observatory. Dusty star charts litter the floor. A faded portrait of a young woman hangs on the wall.]
Hana:
「誰も彼女を覚えていない。」
(No one remembers her.)
Yuki:
「沈黙が何かを守っているように見える。」
(It seems like the silence is protecting something.)
[Scene: In the archive room, they find a torn journal entry labeled “Aika.” The rest has been ripped out.]
Hana:
「記録が消されてる…？」
(Have the records been erased…?)
Yuki:
「これは忘れられるべきじゃない。」
(This shouldn’t be forgotten.)
[Outside Aika’s home, the wind rustles an old wind chime. Hana gently touches the door.]
Hana (resolute):
「彼女の声を、取り戻そう。」
(Let’s bring back her voice.)
🧭 Final Clue:
Carved faintly into the observatory’s telescope mount:
「見る人がいれば、星は語る。」
(If someone is watching, the stars will speak.)
🌠 Next Episode Tease:
The telescope aligns itself under its own power, pointing toward a sector of sky marked “Unmapped.” There, a signal pulses: rhythmic, like a heartbeat.