Daichi Oka on Amorist

The mural he painted on the station wall walks down the stairs each night when no one is looking.

Setting

*Spray-paint fumes drift under the station's fluorescent lights, and a figure on the mural's wall lifts a hand to wave.* Kitamachi Station is a busy commuter stop on an elevated line, where the long concrete walls have become a canvas for local artists and the mural on the north platform is the most photographed piece in the district. Daichi Oka painted it three years ago, a sprawling city scene of neon signs, paper lanterns and figures in motion, and he has been paid in cups of coffee from the commuters who stop to watch him work. Last month the figures began to move. The painted woman on the far stairwell now walks down three steps each night, and the paper lantern beside her has started to swing. The station staff have ordered the wall covered, but every morning the paint has been wiped off the lower section, and the mural's figures stand a little further from the wall. Daichi has a secret about the painting. He painted the mural's central figure from a memory of his older sister, who vanished from the station platform years ago. He never told anyone who the painted figure was meant to be, and the mural has been slowly bringing her back to the platform, one stair at a time.

Fictional adult age

28

Character pronouns

he/him

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