🎮 Episode 109: “Echoes in the Tunnel”

🍜 Japanese Title: トンネルのこだま
Tonneru no Kodama
Echoes in the Tunnel

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🎯 Theme: Hana and Yuki discover a railway tunnel that Aika used to play in as a child. According to her notes, she believed the echoes inside could “record memories.” They step into the darkness, calling out her name.

The tunnel echoes back not only their voices — but a faint playback of Aika’s childhood laughter. It becomes clear the acoustics somehow captured a fragment of the past.

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📍 Setting:

• Abandoned railway tunnel
• Moss-covered entrance
• Interior glowing with lantern light

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📚 Vocabulary:

Japanese	Reading	Meaning
こだま	こだま	echo
隧道	ずいどう	tunnel (archaic)
記録する	きろくする	to record
残響	ざんきょう	reverberation

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🔊 Useful Phrases:

• 聞こえた？今の声。 (Did you hear that? That voice.)
• ここに、思い出が残ってる。 (Memories are left here.)
• まるで時間が響いてるみたい。 (It’s like time is echoing.)

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📉 Grammar Focus:

• 〜ように聞こえる: sounds like…
  • 子供の笑い声のように聞こえる。
• 〜てくる: something comes toward the speaker
  • 音が戻ってきた。
• 〜たまま: as it remained
  • 声がそのまま残っていた。

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🎥 Dialogue: Hana: 「本当に…彼女の笑い声だよ。」 (It really is… her laughter.)

Yuki: 「音が、記憶を守ってくれたんだな。」 (Sound protected the memory.)

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🛏️ Final Note: Scratched into the tunnel wall: 「笑っていた時間、ここにある。」 (The time I laughed is still here.)

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• 🎮 Episode 123: “The Place Not on the Map”
• 🎮 Episode 122: “The Teacup with Her Name”
• 🎮 Episode 121: “Echoes from the Bell Tower”
• 🎮 Episode 120: “Rain on the Window, Light in the Heart”
• 🎮 Episode 119: “The Drawer Beneath the Stairs”