Scene 01
Rain on Lantern Street
A fox-spirit diplomat disappears from a locked tea house. Ren finds three shadows beneath one witness and asks you to choose the first line of inquiry.
CEFR C1Japanese supernatural noir~13 min4 chapters per route
Interactive English speaking story
The Yokai District Case
The victim cast no reflection. The suspect cast three.
Investigate a supernatural Tokyo district with Ren, a charismatic yokai detective. Test witness accounts, interpret a magical contract, and solve a crime that may have protected the city.
สืบสวนย่านเหนือธรรมชาติในโตเกียวกับเร็น นักสืบโยไคผู้มีเสน่ห์ ทดสอบคำให้การ ตีความสัญญาเวทมนตร์ และไขคดีที่อาจปกป้องเมืองไว้
You play
Ren's human partner in Tokyo's hidden spirit district
Test supernatural evidence, interpret a magical contract, and expose a conspiracy without destroying the peace.
Speak aloud · a few missed words are okay · 2 endings
A story that changes with your voice
Preview the opening chapters
Follow one possible opening route below. Your choices lead to different outcomes. Speaking rehearsals revisit your chosen route after its resolution and are counted separately from the story chapters.
Scene 02
A contract written in smoke
Beneath the tea house, a magical contract says the diplomat may vanish if revealing the truth would cause greater harm. One clause has been rewritten in human ink.
Scene 03
The diplomat behind the mirror
You find the diplomat alive behind a mirror gate. She staged her disappearance after discovering that a city official planned to break the peace between humans and yokai.
Useful expressions
English you can actually say
- 01I would like to examine whether the witness changed shape before giving testimony.
- 02I think we should reconstruct the locked room and compare every possible exit.
- 03I think we should describe the altered clause as suspicious evidence rather than proof of murder.
- 04I would like to trace the human ink and compare it with the district records.
- 05I think we should protect the diplomat and secure the conspirators before releasing the evidence.
Story vocabulary
Words you meet in context
- verify
- ตรวจสอบ
- reconstruct
- สร้างเหตุการณ์ขึ้นใหม่
- testimony
- คำให้การ
- clause
- ข้อสัญญา
- inference
- ข้ออนุมาน
- ambiguous
- กำกวม
- disclosure
- การเปิดเผย
- conspirator
- ผู้สมคบคิด
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One story, three speaking modes
Echo
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Remix
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Improv
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Questions about this story
What English level is The Yokai District Case?
The Yokai District Case is written for CEFR C1 learners. The level describes the story's target language difficulty, not an official proficiency assessment.
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