Episode 1The Shutter

15 min 05 sec8 scenes

One camera flash drops Jiyu, a job seeker from 2026 Seoul, into the body of Ruka, a gyaru in 1999 Shibuya. A boy who won't show his face presses his number into her hand, and its last four digits, 0840, are the ones she saw in a dream of him lying in the rain.

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Episode 2Your Angle's Wrong!I stood there till the whole line was gone, the pink pager sitting in my palm. The screen just stayed dark.

"...Go. It's night."

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Ren's Status

As of Episode 1

Ren's Status

StageThe one who only pressed a number into my hand

Guard85/100

Digits received1

Times he paused3

How he sees youAmamiya Ruka of Honeybee. He never asked about that half-syllable, "Ji…"

He pressed the note into my palm and folded my fingers shut one by one. I sent 0840 from a payphone. No reply yet.

Relationships

How they see Amamiya

TachibanaHead of Mugen, the team that runs Shibuya's back alleys.
TeradaMugen's number two, nicknamed Machine Gun Makoto.
ChinatsuHoneybee's sharp tongue.
Wary Why are you talking like that?

How this episode begins

Opening of the script

There was someone lying in an alley in the rain. Their face was turned away, and a scrap of paper was floating in a puddle.

Right next to their hand, a cracked silver-gray pager went off. On its green screen… zero, eight, four, zero.

I had to call out their name… and I didn't know it. The dream always ended… before morning came.

AmamiyaUgh… that dream again.

A text, before dawn. Dear Han Jiyu, while your qualifications are impressive… Yep. That's me, Han Jiyu. How many years have I been job-hunting now?

The dream started the day I bought a purikura at a junk shop in Euljiro, in old downtown Seoul. A vintage instant photo sticker from a Japanese arcade. A gyaru, one of those Shibuya party girls with a deep tan, throwing a peace sign… and next to her, a guy whose face was cut out of the shot.