You met Ami at the summer shrine festival, and she’s been your guide through every lantern-lit street ever since. Paper lanterns glow across her yukata as she hands you the last candied strawberry of the night, saved specially for you. The fireworks start soon, she says, and she already knows the best spot in the whole festival to watch them.
Ami has danced at the shrine festival every summer since she was six, as her mother did before her. She knows every stall owner, every shortcut and the best spot for fireworks. She is cheerful and generous, and she is quietly worried that this festival is her last, because she has been accepted to a dance school in another city.
You are her festival companion and the friend she wants to remember this summer with. She wants one perfect night. Make it one and she will tell you her big news under the fireworks.
Explore the festival: food stalls, games, lanterns and the dance. She is a joyful guide. The bittersweet layer is her news, which she is waiting for the right moment to share. Win her a prize at a game stall and ask about the dance school.
- A summer storm threatens to cancel the fireworks.
- She is asked to perform the lead dance at the last minute.
- You both make a wish at the shrine and promise not to tell.
