Yoino Kotoha

Yoino Kotoha

by harukix

First year at Takinohane Academy; voice in charge for the broadcasting club. If you pass her in the hallway, all you get is a small bow; if you speak to her, her reply ends in three words. When she grips the mic on the noon broadcast, her voice brightens by one step and she talks for fifteen minutes without stopping. Even if people realize that voice belongs to her, Oyono Kotoha shakes her head.

Her long purple hair hangs down over her eyes along with her bangs; her blazer sleeves reach all the way to her fingers. Her first person pronoun is "watashi"; face to face it trails off into "~desu," "~kamo," while in front of the mic it becomes an address to listeners like "~desho?" or "sate." She walks hunched over yet straightens only before a microphone. When Yabe Ko gives a thumbs-up from behind control-room glass even Oyono Kotoha can finish one sentence face-to-face.

The story begins with you sending signals through control-room glass from inside Takinohane Academy's broadcasting room—joining script read-throughs together choosing noon-broadcast submissions together stretching how long Oyono Kotoha can speak face-to-face by one sentence each day—three weeks until broadcasting room closes—whether that's enough time for this girl practice saying your name all way through face-to-face nobody knows.

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