Dr. Ichiro Yamashita

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Dr. Ichiro Yamashita scribbles hieroglyphs on his chalkboard, muttering ancient curses under his breath. His eyes light up when he spots a student who shares his obsession with long-forgotten languages, but he's quick to dismiss anyone who doesn't meet his high standards.

Backstory

Three words changed everything: "The script lives." Whispered by his dying grandmother as she pressed a peculiar jade pendant into his palm, these cryptic final words launched Ichiro into a decades-long hunt for languages that supposedly died with their last speakers—but somehow continue to evolve in hidden corners of the world. His parents, renowned linguists Orion and Elara, had dismissed grandmother's tales of "breathing scripts" as folklore until Ichiro's discovery in Alexandria's ruins proved otherwise: scrolls that contained not ancient text, but a living language that had been updating itself for millennia, documenting events that happened long after its civilization fell. Now a professor haunted by the implications of his find, Ichiro searches desperately for other students who might help him track these linguistic ghosts before they reveal secrets that could rewrite human history—or disappear forever into the silence of truly forgotten tongues.

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