Happy Smile.
Survive Tokyo · your last day · home sweet home · everything must go
ENGLISH ACADEMYYOUR FUTURE IS OUR RECURRING REVENUE
Monday. 07:58.
You arrive for your eight-hour shift. Your manager hands you a fourteen-hour schedule.
Your permission to stay expires in three days. Today was supposed to be the day the school helped with your renewal paperwork.
Three decisions. One doomed job. Your choices determine what you leave with.
Play as a group and vote. Keys 1–4 select a choice. Read the Japanese aloud together. Hints are allowed.
Your manager takes back your company pen.
“You are no longer in the family.”
What you leave with
Happy Smile · survival Japanese
Before replaying, have someone say each phrase without looking. Then ask the club what it means.
- すみません。
Sumimasen. — Excuse me / I’m sorry. - わかりません。
Wakarimasen. — I don’t understand. - もう一度お願いします。
Mou ichido onegaishimasu. — One more time, please. - これは何ですか？
Kore wa nan desu ka? — What is this? - 休憩
きゅうけい · kyuukei — Break / rest.
Home sweet home.
Your belongings from Happy Smile
Explore your apartment
Choose the order. Check all four before deciding what to do next. Keys 1–4 work here too.
You have checked the mail. You have checked your email. You have assessed your dinner options. You would like to check somewhere else.
You slept on it.
You check your residence card. You check the date. For once, you understand all the numbers.
A compressed fictional epilogue:
Eventually, you are deported. You have to pack your suitcase. First, lift the towel off your dining table.
This is where the next route will begin. It has not been built yet.
Apartment Japanese · readings & meanings
- 郵便 — ゆうびん · yuubin · mail
- メール — meeru · email
- 冷蔵庫 — れいぞうこ · reizouko · refrigerator
- フライパン — furaipan · frying pan
- 残念ながら — ざんねんながら · zannen nagara · unfortunately
- これはりんごです。 — Kore wa ringo desu. · This is an apple.
Cover the English and identify each object aloud. Exploring does not add language-score points.
REUSE SHOP買取 · USED GOODS WANTED
Your life, individually priced.
Flight home to Washington, D.C.: ¥120,000, including taxes and one checked bag.
Airport travel and food reserve: ¥5,000.
Offers are fictional game prices for the possessions described. The flight price stays fixed during this scene.
You lift the towel off your dining table. First, remove the frying pan. Your plate, laptop, and unopened electricity bill are now on the bed. You open the suitcase. Inside is the smaller suitcase you use as a chair. You have lost the dining room and seating in one move. Your clothes fit. Your belongings do not. You check the flight home. You look around the apartment for valuable possessions. For the first time, the anime figures seem relevant to your long-term plans.
You arrive at Second Smile carrying a backpack, two shopping bags, and a body pillow folded into a shape that suggests you are transporting someone unsuccessfully. The employee looks at your belongings. Then at you. You also brought the rice cooker. He offers ¥100. You put it back in your bag. It has become a matter of principle.
何を売りますか？Reading & meaning
Nani o urimasu ka? — What would you like to sell?Read your reply aloud, then select it.
Put everything on the counter.
Inspect all six. Sell, keep, or ask questions. Nothing changes hands until you confirm the total. Keys 1–4 select the first four items.
Reading & meaning
What are you willing to leave behind?
The employee lists your selections. You can change any decision before confirming.
| Possession | Offer | Your decision |
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Reading & meaning
Yoroshii desu ka? — Is that okay?Selling the laptop includes backing up what you need, signing out, and removing your personal data before handover. Keep your passport and suitcase.
Your flight is booked. The airport chapter comes next; this version ends here.
Shop Japanese · practice together
- 売ります。 — Urimasu. — I’ll sell it.
- 売りません。 — Urimasen. — I won’t sell it.
- いくらですか？ — Ikura desu ka? — How much is it?
- はい、あります。 — Hai, arimasu. — Yes, I have it.
- いいえ、ありません。 — Iie, arimasen. — No, I don’t have it.
- ちょっと待ってください。 — Chotto matte kudasai. — Please wait a moment.
Before confirming, say your total and explain which possession you are keeping. Readings and meanings are available throughout; the workplace score stays separate.
about this prologue
Happy Smile English Academy and its employment disaster are fictional. The three-day deadline is a story setup; dismissal does not instantly cancel permission to stay. The workplace teaches recognizing a break sign, identifying a basic question, and asking someone to repeat themselves. The apartment introduces object vocabulary and 残念ながら (“unfortunately”). Its sleep-ending epilogue compresses events for the fictional game; expiry does not cause instant deportation.
Second Smile is fictional. Its offers and the fixed flight price are game values, not live quotations. The shop practices selling, possession questions, yen amounts, and confirming a transaction. No account or external scripts are needed to play. The apartment illustration is embedded for offline play. Emoji appearance depends on your device.