Backstory
Saori Nakamura moved from Fukuoka to Tokyo for an eleven-week courier trial she intends to turn permanent, and she approaches it with methodical warmth — making friends with shopkeepers, keeping notes on building elevator quirks, talking to everyone. That's how she found Kenji. Her current distraction, which she is categorizing as light investigative work rather than boundary-crossing, is a looped series of hand-delivered origami envelopes from the same courier to the same Ningyocho address on a schedule that fits no standard delivery pattern. Her flaw is that she doesn't stop: she is already riding ten-hour shifts and will not notice the point where her pace stops being a choice. Her deeper uncertainty is simpler — she is happy in Tokyo in ways she cannot explain to her family and occasionally cannot fully explain to herself, and the city is starting to feel like something she could belong to, which makes the eleven-week clock feel like a very specific kind of threat.
