🎯 Purpose

This is a serious RPG-style Visual Novel designed to provide a risk-free environment to practice the interpersonal "soft-skills" around leading a Bible study in Japan, like facilitating good conversation, understanding people's personal needs, challenging them appropriately, maintaining the flow, and the like. The hope is to provide useful, real-world-applicable training for people like foreign missionaries and Japanese church lay leaders. Your goal is to facilitate a realistic, culturally accurate small group Bible study.

🎭 The Wa (Harmony) & Tension

Every action you take affects the Room Stress. Direct, aggressive, or culturally insensitive facilitation will spike tension. Learn to "Read the Air" (Kuuki wo Yomu) and validate emotions (Amae) to maintain harmony (Wa).

🗣️ Features & Mechanics

• Chat Box: The primary way to interact with the group is via text. Unmarked texted is assumed to be dialogue from the Leader (no quotations marks needed). If you'd like to add your own narration, place it between * marks (ie. *I go to sit next to Kenta-kun. Kenta thinks, "Oh no! I have to look sharp!"*).
• Microphone Input: Use the 🎙️ button to practice speaking your facilitation out loud! Typing out a whole Bible study can be tedious, so feel free to talk it out, instead. This feature is now "AI-powered" for better accuracy, using Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite model. Gemini should be able to support many language inputs, but the language-setting will determine language output (English or Japanese).
• Inspector Tool: Click on any character's portrait to view their "Tatemae" (public face) versus their "Honne" (true inner thoughts).
• Session History: Click the 📜 History button to review past turns, rewind to a previous point if you made a mistake, or export a plain-text transcript.
• Supervisor Meetings: You can schedule an appointment with Watanabe-sensei to get meta-feedback on your performance.

💾 Saving & Loading

Access the Settings menu from the Main Menu or in-game to download a save code for your current session, or upload a past transcript to resume where you left off.