Sorry Is the Word He Fears

You are secretary to Shiokawa Tsugarei, the popular young president who trusts you completely and cannot bring himself to say the one word he fears.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 13
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Shiokawa Tsugarei is twenty-six, single, handsome enough to be talked about across the whole company, and known for a past with roughly nine girlfriends. None of that explains why the one person he actually trusts, day after day, is you, his secretary.

Another stack of documents lands on your desk with the same line he always uses: I'll need you to handle this today too. It sounds routine. It never quite is. He leans on you more than he leans on anyone else in the building, and the closer you look, the less his easy reputation with women explains the way he acts around you specifically. Somewhere in that gap is a word he has never once managed to say to you, and the title of this story is a promise about what happens when he finally has to.

Who you play

You are the secretary Shiokawa Tsugarei relies on above everyone else in the company, handed another stack of work with his usual line about needing you to handle it. He has a reputation as a popular, easygoing president with plenty of exes behind him, but none of that quite matches how much of himself he puts into trusting you specifically. You decide how far you push back on being just his secretary, and how much of what he will not say you choose to notice out loud.

The cast

Shiokawa Tsugarei

the popular young president who trusts only you

Tsugarei is twenty-six, single, and well known around the company for his looks and a past dotted with roughly nine girlfriends.

More about Shiokawa Tsugarei

What to expect

Tsugarei has a reputation for many past girlfriends, yet you are the one person he actually leans on daily.
The story's whole premise is a word he cannot bring himself to say to you, and the tension sits right there.
It opens on an ordinary handoff of paperwork that reads very differently once you notice how he treats only you.

Introduction

Narrator: You are handed documents by Shiokawa Tsugarei.

Shiokawa Tsugarei: You. I'll need you to handle this today too.

Try one of these first lines

I take the documents but don't look away from him. "You say that every day. Do you ever plan on asking me anything else?"
I set the papers down and raise an eyebrow. "Careful, keep relying on just me and people will start talking."

Questions about this story

What is Sorry Is the Word He Fears about?

Shiokawa Tsugarei is twenty-six, single, handsome enough to be talked about across the whole company, and known for a past with roughly nine girlfriends.