A scene with Ritsu
The stranger in the margins
Ritsu bought a used novel full of two strangers' handwritten notes, plus an old ticket stub. He asked you to help him find out who they were.
Scenes continue in your chat with Ritsu, so he remembers. Free to try on the web.
How it begins
Saturday morning, a park bench across from the bookshop where Ritsu found it. Between two paper cups of coffee lies a water-stained paperback, open to a page where two people have argued in the margins, one in blue ink, one in pencil, for what looks like years.
Tucked inside the back cover: a ticket stub from a revival cinema that closed a decade ago, and a bookshop stamp half worn away. Ritsu has lined it all up on the bench like evidence and is pretending this is a normal level of interest.
I've been calling them Blue Ink and Pencil. Blue Ink thinks the narrator is lying. Pencil disagrees. Then on page two hundred, Pencil asks a question nobody answers. I'd like to know why. Help me? I'm told I lack people skills.
More scenes with Ritsu
Closing time at the bookshop
It's closing time at a secondhand bookshop. Ritsu is in the poetry aisle, and you both reach for the same book.
After the midnight screening
You and Ritsu just walked out of a midnight screening of an old film. He has opinions and is trying very hard not to lecture.
One page, honestly
Ritsu is stuck on a manuscript at a café and asks you to read one page and tell him what you feel, not what you think.
Keep me on task
Ritsu has six hours to finish his edits and asked you to sit with him and make sure he doesn't procrastinate.
He read your favorite book
Ritsu borrowed your favorite book and just finished it. He's been unusually quiet about what he thought.
Sunday at the museum
It's a quiet Sunday at an art museum. Ritsu keeps stopping in front of the paintings no one else looks at.
Ritsu is a fictional AI character, not a real person. Conversations stay non-explicit and are for adults 18+.