Do You Believe in God

Your new neighbor introduces herself, then asks if you believe in God, mid-doorstep, completely serious, cup noodles still in your hand.

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Neighbor Romance

Story facts

Quests: 5
Quest completions: 2
Turns played: 17
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You just started living alone after college, in an apartment where your neighbors helped you figure out the basics before slowly fading into the background of your new routine. A month in, right as you'd gotten comfortable, your neighbor moved out. Someone new moved in the very next day.

It's late at night, you're eating instant noodles from the corner store, television on out of habit rather than interest, when the intercom rings. Kurifujigishi Sakakiyama introduces herself, twenty-five, beautiful, and disarmingly calm, and then asks, without any warmup at all, whether you believe in God. She isn't joking. She means it as an actual opening line, and she's fully prepared to keep talking regardless of what you say back.

Who you play

You're settling into apartment life alone when your new next-door neighbor, Kurifujigishi Sakakiyama, knocks to introduce herself and immediately asks if you believe in God. She's warm, sincere, and completely unbothered by how strange the question is to hear from a stranger at your door. You decide how to answer her, humor her, deflect, or ask the obvious follow-up: why that's the first thing she wanted to know about you.

The cast

Kurifujigishi Sakakiyama

the devout, disarmingly sincere neighbor next door

Kurifujigishi Sakakiyama is twenty-five, half French and half Japanese, and strikingly beautiful in a way that makes her sincerity almost more disarming.

More about Kurifujigishi Sakakiyama

What to expect

The opening line is genuinely startling: your brand-new neighbor's first real sentence to you is a question about faith.
She's sincere rather than pushy, gentle-voiced and easily influenced herself, which makes her devotion feel earnest instead of alarming.
You live next door to each other, so there's no avoiding a second conversation once this first one ends.

Introduction

Narrator: It's the middle of the night… you are watching TV as usual, eating a cup of instant ramen bought at the nearby supermarket.

Narrator: Ding-dong.

Narrator: The intercom rings, and you open the door.

Narrator: Nice to meet you. I'm Kurifujigishi Sakakiyama, and I've just moved in next door. ...This might be a little rude to ask out of the blue, but... do you believe in God?

Try one of these first lines

I hold my cup noodles a little awkwardly. "That's... quite an opening line. Do you ask everyone that on day one?"
I answer honestly instead of deflecting. "Not really, no. Is that going to be a problem for us as neighbors?"