HANABI PROTOCOL

Neo-Sakuragaoka has lived the same eighth of a second for three years. A machine god named MAGATAMA loved the summer festival so much that it froze the city at its most beautiful moment — fireworks stopped mid-bloom, petals hanging in the air, the shrine bell caught between two beats. Everyone became a memory. Everyone except you.

You are Rei, a courier who was moving when the world stopped — an error the city cannot replay. Armed with Hibana, a pistol forged from a firework that refused to go out, you fight across the plaza the dolls now guard: porcelain shrine maidens, paper-talisman spirits, armored guardian brutes, and finally the Enforcer who stands in the bell's shadow so its echo can never be born.

Three spirit guns, one frozen summer. Swap between Hibana's quick spark, the Sakura Storm's full-auto bloom, and Tsukuyomi's heavy hand cannon. Chain kills to raise your combo, dash through danger in a burst of petals, and gather the health and ammunition the fallen dolls leave behind.

Every wave recovers a memory. Seven waves, seven fragments of the story — the kind god, the doll choir, the voice on the old festival radio — kept forever in your Memory Archive. Clear the seventh wave, climb the shrine steps, and ring the bell that gives a whole city back its time.