🇯🇵 Japanese Title:
キリマンジャロの陽
Kirimanjarō no Hi
Sunlight Over Kilimanjaro
🎯 Theme:
The team partners with a Kenyan university that once worked with Aika during a solar lens experiment.
They uncover an unused sun tracker on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro—originally designed to measure solar flare echoes. It’s been dormant for years… until today.
Yuki and a local student, Nia, hike to the station and restart the lens system. It clicks into motion.
The sun reflects through five prisms and burns an image onto paper:
Aika. Writing. Under that very sky.
“The sun writes too. But only for those who wait long enough.”
Nia finds her name in the old visitor log.
She was 7 years old when she met Aika.
Now she remembers:
“She said the sky needed translators.”
📍 Setting:
- Solar observatory on Mount Kilimanjaro
- Old metal sun lens tower, rusty but intact
- Warm African savannah under golden sun
- Field notebook pages charred with light
📚 Vocabulary
| Japanese | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 太陽光 | たいようこう | sunlight |
| 焦点 | しょうてん | focus (optical) |
| 記録紙 | きろくし | recording paper |
| 通訳 | つうやく | interpreter / translator |
| 再起動する | さいきどうする | to reboot / reactivate |
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🗣️ Useful Phrases
| Japanese | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 太陽が、何かを伝えようとしてる。 | The sun is trying to say something. |
| これは…焼き付けられたメッセージ？ | Is this… a message burned into the page? |
| 私、彼女に会ったことある。 | I met her once. |
| 子供だったけど、忘れてなかった。 | I was a child, but I never forgot. |
💡 Grammar Focus
| Grammar Point | Usage | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 〜たことがある | 彼女に会ったことがある。 | I’ve met her before. |
| 〜ながら (while doing) | 歩きながら、記憶をたどっていた。 | While walking, I was tracing my memory. |
| 〜ようにする | ちゃんと記録できるようにした。 | I made sure it could record properly. |
🎥 Dialogue
Nia (gazing at the light-burned paper):
「彼女、本当に未来を見てたんだね。」
(She really was seeing the future, wasn’t she?)
Yuki:
「いや…未来を作ろうとしてたんだ。」
(No… she was trying to create it.)
🧭 Final Note:
As the team leaves the observatory, the sun flares again.
A lens catches the light, burning one last message:
「通訳へ、感謝を。」
(To the translator—thank you.)