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[Gaze] Watching You
It’s me. Employee A. There are many horror films around the world, and quite a few of them feature clowns. With their unsettling makeup and incomprehensible behavior, they are figures that provoke fear. One scene that l…
Store2 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Hint] How to Erase You
It’s me. Employee A. When talking about the period around the year 2000, there is something I always remember. That is the “Y2K problem.” There were fears that every system dependent on computers could fail— that airpla…
Store3 changesBalanceGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Restoration in Progress] The True Identity of “Happy Execution Show”
It’s me. Employee A. In Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries, many people were executed as examples to others after unjust trials known as “witch trials.” During the French Revolution, public executions were carri…
Store2 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Download] The Button You Should Never Have Clicked
It’s me. Employee A. These days, terms like “one-click scams” and “malware” have become widely understood, and I think people have developed at least some level of caution when it comes to downloading things carelessly.…
Security4 changesGameplayStore - DO NOT PLAY
[Memorial Portrait] The Portrait That Began to Move
It’s me. Employee A. In recent years, AI technology that animates the deceased in memorial portraits has already begun to enter funeral settings. By making the departed “smile,” altering their expressions, and passing e…
Store2 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
【AA】A World Shaped by Characters
It’s me. Employee A. In recent years, pixel art has been drawing attention once again. Graphics continue to evolve, and today, high-definition visuals and 3D expressions have become the norm. Even so, more and more crea…
Store2 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Discarded Waste] What Lies Inside
It’s me. Employee A. Earlier this year, I saw a TV news report about a strange discovery of discarded waste in the Kansai region. The details were withheld, but it was said to contain what appeared to be blood and skin—…
Store4 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Language Update] New In-Game Screens Revealed
It’s me. Employee A. There is a myth known as the Tower of Babel. When humans attempted to reach the heavens, God did not merely destroy the tower— by making their languages no longer understood by one another, completi…
Event5 changesGameplayStore - DO NOT PLAY
[Traces] A Page You Shouldn’t Scroll Through
It’s me. Employee A. Recently, I heard about AI-powered medical diagnostics—systems that analyze medical images and test data and can detect “abnormalities” even before doctors do. However, the results are presented onl…
Event5 changesGameplayStore - DO NOT PLAY
[Multilingual] Two Words That Shouldn’t Have Been Read
It’s me. Employee A. Lately, I’ve been feeling that it’s become much harder than before to tell whether a piece of writing or an image was created by generative AI. Back in the 2000s, when “Geemu” was originally release…
Store2 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Decay] A Story Coming Apart
It’s me. Employee A. Recently, a university research team in Japan announced that periodontal bacteria may be able to enter the brain and play a role in the progression of dementia. Some experts have commented that infl…
Store3 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Traces] A Page You Shouldn’t Scroll Through
It’s me. Employee A. About twenty years ago, there was a time when almost anyone could easily create their own website. Personal computers were becoming common in ordinary households, and with simple software, people co…
Event5 changesGameplayStore - DO NOT PLAY
[Distortion] The Changing Group Photo
It’s me. Employee A. While cleaning my room, I found an old photo from my school days. Feeling nostalgic, I turned it over—and noticed a small line of text written on the back: “—There’s one person here whose face I don…
Store2 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
【Viewer Discretion Advised】Restored Disturbing Content
It’s me. Employee A. The other day, I went to an eye doctor just to be safe. In the middle of the vision test, the doctor suddenly stopped. “…Your visual response isn’t normal,” he murmured. He didn’t explain anything f…
Store2 changesGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Warning] Noise in the Mailbox
It’s me. Employee A. You often hear people say, “This world is just a simulation.” After staring at a debug screen for hours, I sometimes look back at reality and… it feels the same. There are numbers, coordinates, and…
Store3 changesFixGameplay - DO NOT PLAY
[Someone’s Drawing] The Blacked-Out “Boku”
It’s me. Employee A. Lately, I’ve started seeing something like noise moving in my field of vision. It’s similar to what’s called “floaters.” When I move my eyes, the noise drifts to another spot. I thought it was just…
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