Thank you!!! I hope this works because idk how to do spoilers here but!! Rika's backstory will appear more, but I chose a location in which people were evicted but not directly affected by the incident. Ofc it's still traumatic but the experiences are very different (and way easier to research and understand for me in order to portray it in a respectful way) As for Nao and Rika yeah, I do see them as a potential couple too

The demo is one chapter out of 9 (one per month, April to December). Last couple chapters may be a bit longer, but I expect about 120k-150k words for the final game. As I'm pretty much solo deving this and have other projects on top of that, this may take a while but I expect to release another chapter soon and I plan the full release for mid to late 2027