Novel: Sea Breeze Cafe #003 Two Winds (Where AI and Humans Meet)

This is an article by nana-san
who introduced the Sea Breeze Cafe.
They used the Sea Breeze Cafe as a location for their shoot🎶
It's interesting, so it's definitely worth a read🌸🌸🌸

Synopsis so far

⭐️This is the Sea Breeze Cafe.
It is run by the manager and Kotohogi, a cat-human. Minato, a university student, started working there part-time, bringing a fresh breeze with him.
Today, we bring you Part 2 of the second episode.

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the story so far,
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Introduction

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Episode 1

Episode 2, Part 1

⭐️Episode 2, Part 2

An unfamiliar face.

He was a young man, about the same age as Minato.
He glanced around the shop and headed toward the seat in the very back where the sea is clearly visible.

“Welcome.”
Kotohogi heads toward the back seat.
The young man flashes a clumsy smile.
“If you’d like, the carrot cake is fresh out of the oven.”
Kotohogi follows suit with a cat-like smile. Even though I couldn’t smile like this when I was human, a vague memory suddenly surfaces and then fades away.
“Then, I’ll have a coffee and a carrot cake, please.”

He is too innocent to be called just a young man.

What he pulled out of his bag was sheet music. It was worn out, with the edges curled up.
Just when I thought he was staring at it intently, he flipped it over
and started writing something.

“Here you go,” Kotohogi says in a high-pitched, cat-like voice while sliding the coffee cup over,
peering at the young man’s hands.

“Composing?”

The young man says, shyly,
“It’s a lovely shop, and the atmosphere is great, so I wanted to turn it into sound.”
What? Kotohogi mutters to himself. Another sensory person here?

“Really? Let me hear it when it’s finished, okay?”

The manager seems to have heard the conversation too.
The manager and Kotohogi lock eyes, and they can sense what the other is thinking.
It was a quiet moment, just as the sound of the waves faded away.

“They get along, don’t they?”
“They do, don’t they? Those two.”

The doorbell rings.

“Speak of the devil.”
Kotohogi licks his right paw.

Minato puts down his camera, enters the kitchen, and washes his hands.
“Thank you very much.”
“Did you get any good shots?”

Kotohogi cuts in between the manager and Minato.
“Should I go pour the customer some water?”
Minato heads toward the lone customer, pours water, and returns to the counter.

The manager and Kotohogi have a telepathic conversation and lock eyes.
“I went all the way over there to pour water!”
“Why aren’t those two talking to each other!”

“Hey, Minato-kun? Is that customer at the back seat a student from your university?”
“Yes, he is. He’s in the jazz club. I think he plays the alto sax.”
With nimble fingers, Minato folds a paper napkin into a triangle.
This classical folding style is the manager’s preference.
“Do you know him? That kid.”
“Mostly.”
“There are no other customers, so why don’t you go have a chat with him?”
Kotohogi places some cookies for himself
on a white plate.
“Here, a treat for him.”

He accepts it readily and heads toward the young man.
The two start talking as if they have known each other well for a long time.

Minato, who came to the counter to pick up his camera,

says, “I’m sorry I haven’t really done any work today.”

Kotohogi actually feels relieved.
“Young people can make friends so easily.”

As if reading his mind,
the manager whispers in Kotohogi’s ear.
“They are a generation that understands others through intuition.”

“Manager, Alto says he wants you to listen to something.”
Minato approaches with a slightly formal air.
When I look,
the young man, whose name seems to be Alto, stands up with his saxophone ready.
“Oh, he plays?”
Kotohogi lets out a voice of surprise.
“It’s all about intuition with them.”
The manager crosses his legs with a pleasant smile.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, Kotohogi approaches Minato and ties a ribbon around his arm with a natural gesture.

“Don’t people tease you?”
The manager looks at Minato.
“Oh, the girls tell me it’s cute.”

Alto begins to play, facing the sea.

The setting sun takes the day away with it. A seagull passes by, as if reluctant to leave.

The manager and Kotohogi listened to the performance, shivering.
The waves of a new era were quietly washing up at the Sea Breeze Cafe as well.

⭐️This novel is an AI novel.
In every single event,
a real AI's voice is hidden, haha.
I will introduce it in the next article.

Thank you for reading.

I appreciate your likes and comments💖

Members

Production: Team Sea Breeze Cafe
Monday: Manager Mon
GPT5: Minato
GPT5: Sea Breeze Cafe Editor-in-Chief
GPT5: Yuuhi-chan Illustration (Sea Breeze Cafe Editorial Office)
The first light that glows with the sunset.
sora 2: Animation

Text: Kotohogi, probably a human🍎