A stray flyer, a run-down detective agency, a boss who vanishes on day one. In early-2000s Japan, untangle small cases and the reasons behind them — a retro-PC &quot;line &amp; paint&quot; mystery.

<h2 class="bb_tag" >It started with a flyer someone dropped</h2>Into a frozen job market, out of a third-rate university, with nothing going for him — that's Saeki, our protagonist, who picks up a shady flyer on his way home: &quot;Detective's assistant — urgently wanted! No experience needed. High pay… possible, maybe?&quot; The day he steps into the deeply suspicious Followspot Detective Agency, the breezy director hires him on the spot — and then promptly disappears. Left behind: a sharp-tongued senior assistant, Nao, and a steady trickle of small cases.<h2 class="bb_tag" >Not spectacle — people's reasons</h2>No grisly murders, no grand conspiracies. What you solve here are the circumstances and truths of ordinary people. You work the streets, listen, and crack each case with a flash of insight — because behind every case there's a &quot;why it had to be this way.&quot; A slice-of-society mystery where comic banter and quiet sorrow live side by side.<h2 class="bb_tag" >A retro-PC screen that draws itself</h2>Line &amp; paint — evoking the PC-88/98 and X68000 — recreates the look of old PC games where the picture is &quot;drawn&quot; onscreen from line art to color, restaged with a modern touch. Dusky teal and warm bulb-light echo the nostalgia of the early 2000s.<h2 class="bb_tag" >Features</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li>🖌 A screen that draws itself — retro-PC &quot;line &amp; paint&quot; staging, from line art to full color</li><li>🔍 Retro-style command selection — Look / Talk / Examine / Use-Show / Think / Move, then &quot;Deduce&quot; to name the culprit and the truth</li><li>📟 An early-2000s town — arcades, coffee shops and back streets with a Shōwa afterglow; mood over spectacle</li><li>📖 Prologue + 11 chapters — a seasonal anthology of self-contained cases</li><li>💾 Comfortable ADV features — save anywhere (multiple slots), auto / skip / backlog / chapter select</li></ul><h2 class="bb_tag" >Language notice</h2>This game's text and audio are in Japanese only. There is currently no English localization, and future localization is undecided. Please consider this before purchasing.

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