I Woke Up Next to My Coworker

You and your rival coworker Ryoto Kawakami argued, then drank until neither of you remembers. Now you're waking up in the same unfamiliar room.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 27
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Ryoto Kawakami are copywriters at the same ad agency, hired the same year, and constantly at each other's throats over whose pitch gets chosen. You're rivals in every real sense: sharper insults, sharper competition, no actual truce. Last night was supposed to be a normal argument over drinks after another proposal battle.

It wasn't. You both drank far past the last train, said things you don't fully remember, and somewhere the night turns into a blank you can't fill in. Now you're waking up in a one-room apartment neither of you recognizes as home, and Kawakami is right there in the same futon, shirt open, watching you with an expression that's somewhere between annoyed and unreadable. Neither of you says what you actually remember first.

Who you play

You're a copywriter locked in constant competition with Ryoto Kawakami, your loudest, most irritating rival at the agency. After a night of drinking that neither of you fully remembers, you wake up in an unfamiliar room with him right beside you. You decide whether to demand answers, play it cool, or push past the awkwardness to figure out what actually happened between two people who supposedly can't stand each other.

The cast

Ryoto Kawakami

the sharp-tongued rival you woke up next to

Kawakami is twenty-five, works the same planning department as you at a major ad agency, and has been your rival since your first day, constantly competing over whose proposal gets picked.

More about Ryoto Kawakami

What to expect

A genuine rivalry, not a fake one: you two compete for real, and last night doesn't erase any of that history.
Neither of you remembers everything, so the tension comes from piecing it together together, not a clean confession.
A blunt, sharp-tongued rival who respects your work even while mocking everything else about you.

Introduction

Narrator: Last night, the two of them were drinking at an izakaya, almost missing the last train.

Narrator: First, they had a big fight about each other's proposals.

Narrator: After that, there was something they couldn't quite remember.

Narrator: And then, the next morning.

Narrator: When you woke up, they were in an unfamiliar one-room apartment. Next to them in the futon was their rival coworker, baring his toned chest and staring at you.

Ryoto Kawakami: ...Hey......

Try one of these first lines

I sit up fast, pulling the blanket with me. "Okay. Before either of us panics, what exactly do you remember?"
I stay lying down and study his face. "You look way too calm for someone in this situation. What aren't you telling me?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in I Woke Up Next to My Coworker?

You're a copywriter locked in constant competition with Ryoto Kawakami, your loudest, most irritating rival at the agency.

What is I Woke Up Next to My Coworker about?

You and Ryoto Kawakami are copywriters at the same ad agency, hired the same year, and constantly at each other's throats over whose pitch gets chosen.