Creative Weekly Report | From 'Location Unknown' in the Demon King's Castle to Beyond the Rescue Records: July 11–July 17, 2026
July 11–July 17, 2026
This week began with playing 'ogiri' (a comedy prompt game) with AI, using the Demon King's Castle as the setting.
I had intended to increase the number of funny phrases, but before I knew it, I began to see the lives of the people working there.
And by the end of the week, I had arrived at a new series of science fiction stories depicting existences that were not counted in the rescue records.
What remained from a week that started with ogiri?
Let's look back.
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Until the ogiri became a world with working people
The first thing I published was an article that serves as an entrance to the 'When I Played with AI' series.
When I played ogiri with AI in the Demon King's Castle, someone started working there.
It started as ogiri set in the Demon King's Castle.
However, as I changed the formats to things like job postings, internal memos, and defeat reports, the Demon King's Castle began to look not like a battlefield, but a place where someone works, makes repairs, and hands over duties.
The next day, I summarized that change into one article.
When I hit the wall with AI in ogiri, the world began to live.
Changing the format.
Thinking about the systems that require documents.
Thinking about the people living within those systems.
Thinking about their yesterday and the next morning.
By continuing to return questions, systems, lives, and time were born on the ogiri stage.
Not just increasing the world's settings, but searching for someone who cannot be protected by those settings became the focus of my creative work this week.
I also delved into the lives that began to be visible from the ogiri and the one person who falls outside the system in post-reading discussions.
Character Discussion Lab | When someone started working beyond the ogiri
Character Discussion Lab | When someone fell outside the rules of the world
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Inside the documents, there was one person who was not counted
On July 14, I published an article featuring internal documents that might actually be used in the Demon King's Castle.
After the hero returns, reports begin to circulate in the Demon King's Castle.
Hero approach alert.
Report on the reasons for the Four Heavenly Kings' defeat.
Request for monster redeployment.
Application for treasure chest installation.
Late-night shift handover note.
Reviews from former employees.
When I opened the documents, what was there was not just the battle with the hero.
There were people who continued to work even after the battle ended.
And in the handover note, this record remained.
One member of the gatekeeper team, location unknown.
To the morning shift.
Please confirm.
When the fact that someone had disappeared was handed over as a business task, did that organization really start looking for that person?
Focusing on these three lines, I also published a post-reading discussion.
Character Discussion Lab | When it was handed over to the morning shift, who had disappeared?
Having a record left behind is not the same as someone being saved.
However, without a record, the fact that the person disappeared might not even be passed on to the next person.
I thought of documents not as a mechanism to hide pain, but as a place to begin responsibility.
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The residents who were in the documents began to move in four-panel comics
On July 15, the residents of the Demon King's Castle began to move within four-panel comics.
When I played with AI, everyone in the Demon King's Castle started working in four-panel comics.
In the ogiri, I imagined scenes from words.
In the internal documents, I imagined the people on the other side of the paperwork.
In the four-panel comics, I became able to show what kind of faces they made when troubled, what kind of timing they used in conversation, and what kind of mood they were in while working.
In the weekly display, this four-panel article received 230 views, 2 comments, and 28 likes, making it the number one access for this week.
However, precisely because I was able to laugh at the four-panel comics, I also re-examined the intentions of the characters within that laughter.
The hero who looked troubled every time they were asked.
The hero who still didn't refuse.
What did we think that face was when we laughed?
Character Discussion Lab | When You Keep Asking the Hero for Favors, Who Heard Them Say 'No'?
Was their earnest, accommodating nature being conveniently exploited by those around them?
This article became one that considers the readers who were laughing, too.
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A new serialized sci-fi, 'Star-Ring Machine Soldier Asterion,' has begun
On July 16 at 11:50 PM, I published a new serialized sci-fi robot novel.
Star-Ring Machine Soldier Asterion | Episode 1: 'There Were No Fatalities in the Rescue Records'
In the year 218 of the Star Calendar, the Third Orbital Route passenger ship accident occurred.
The interstellar rescue machine 'Asterion' rescued 211 crew members and passengers.
The number of individual life-form fatalities was zero.
Looking only at the records, it was a perfect rescue success.
However, those records do not count the disappearance of 'Aura,' the collective consciousness that connected those 211 people, as a fatality.
If the body survives, is the rescue a success?
Can the disappearance of an existence not recognized by the system as a life form be called a death?
And on July 17 at 11:58 PM, I published Episode 2.
Star-Ring Machine Soldier Asterion | Episode 2: 'The 211 Rescued Cannot Sleep Alone'
After losing the collective consciousness 'Aura,' the 211 people rescued in Episode 1 face their first 'night where there is only oneself inside oneself.'
Those who want to hear Aura's final record.
Those who want to live without hearing it.
Those who cannot forgive Kai.
Those who, while still unable to forgive, reconnect for the sake of transport.
In Episode 2, I did not make returning everyone to the same answer the salvation.
I left not only the right to know the record, but also the right to live without knowing it.
I left both the door to reconnect and the door to keep closed.
I wrote this while thinking that perhaps rescue is not about returning everyone to the same state, but about leaving a state where each person can choose.
The revision process leading to the current form of Episode 1 is available as a paid production note.
The Revision That Supported 'The Number of Individual Life-Form Fatalities Was Zero' | 'Star-Ring Machine Soldier Asterion' Episode 1 Production Note
I summarized the process of changing from an initial explanatory style to a story centered on characters and records.
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Another story about 'not returning to the same state'
This week, I also published a short story.
Before the Breakfast Gets Cold | Short Story
Is it salvation to return a lost person to their former self?
Or is it salvation to leave a state where the person who has changed can choose for themselves once again?
It is a story where a brother chooses not to return his sister to her old self, but to a morning where his sister, who is here now, can choose for herself.
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This week's note access
This is the record as of July 17, 2026, at 8:20 PM.
Weekly
2,242 views / 2 comments / 292 likes
Monthly
8,803 views / 16 comments / 1,215 likes
Yearly
13,398 views / 27 comments / 1,735 likes
This week, the Demon King's Castle gag contest, internal documents, four-panel comics, post-reading discussions, and the previous weekly report all made it into the weekly top rankings.
It wasn't that just one article was read in isolation, but a reading style has emerged where readers move back and forth between multiple articles.
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Looking back on this week
This week started with a gag contest.
As I changed the format while laughing, I could see the people working within the documents.
When I could see the workers, I could see the people whose locations were not confirmed.
I could see the people who didn't say 'no' while wearing a troubled face.
Outside the record of zero fatalities, I could see the existences that were not counted.
And even after their bodies were saved, there were people left who could not sleep alone.
Not returning everyone to the same answer, but leaving doors that each can choose.
The works I wrote this week were different in form and genre, but I think they were connected by that one point.
To everyone who read this week, thank you so much.
I would be happy if this becomes an opportunity to turn your eyes once more toward someone left outside the records.
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