Setting
East of Yamaeshin’s Sunokaben Gardens you’ll find the Middle Class Residential Area of the town. South of this area you’ll find the old market district, and to the east you’ll find the Working Class Residential Area of the town.
To the northeast of the Working Class Area you’ll find a large forest, in the centre of which is a large Shinto shrine, and south of this forest is the standard town cemetery, and eventually farmland and swampland.
The train line cuts roughly across the northern edge of the Middle Class Area before dropping down roughly through the centre of the Working Class Area before leaving town to the southeast. In fact the Working Class Residential Area was originally built around the train line before gradually expanding outwards.
Locations in this area include:
- The (current) Kobayashi residence, I.e. Mikoto and Haruhiko, on the rough border of the Middle and Working Class Areas.
- The town’s personal museum, detailing its history back to its founding.
- The Megami Shinto Shrine in the forests to the east.
- The printing office for the Yamaeshin Chronicle newspaper, on the border of the Middle Class Residential and the Market Centre.
To the northeast of the Working Class Area you’ll find a large forest, in the centre of which is a large Shinto shrine, and south of this forest is the standard town cemetery, and eventually farmland and swampland.
The train line cuts roughly across the northern edge of the Middle Class Area before dropping down roughly through the centre of the Working Class Area before leaving town to the southeast. In fact the Working Class Residential Area was originally built around the train line before gradually expanding outwards.
Locations in this area include:
- The (current) Kobayashi residence, I.e. Mikoto and Haruhiko, on the rough border of the Middle and Working Class Areas.
- The town’s personal museum, detailing its history back to its founding.
- The Megami Shinto Shrine in the forests to the east.
- The printing office for the Yamaeshin Chronicle newspaper, on the border of the Middle Class Residential and the Market Centre.
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Yamaeshin East is a part of 
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The sky had a light-purplish glow to it, with the sun slowly rising above over the hills as the night had begun to fade away.
Mikoto Kobayashi would've given anything though to have that night last forever, anything to not have to face this particular day. She had been strolling, or could it be called shuffling, around in her garden since she-didn't-know-what-time, but easily very late in the night, as she had been completely unable to sleep.
Having, let's say, a 5 year-old being moody about having to go to school is one thing. Having a 24 year-old being moody about having to go to school is another. Not that Mikoto was to be a student or anything, a gimmicky comedy film her existence was most definitely not. About a week ago her older brother Haruhiko had signed her up as a teacher over at Tenmei Gakuen, a prestigious High School in the north of town, in order to at least make some improvement to her social skills. Though she had agreed to this, it was only really because she did not want to see her brother disappointed in her anymore, being anything but a people-person Mikoto was incredibly reluctant about the whole thing.
"How long have you been out there?" a tired voice, though not necessarily from lack of sleep, said to her from over by the back doorstep.
Mikoto slowly turned around, and quite bluntly answered "I don't know. For hours". Usually she was a lot more polite and open with her brother, he was the only person she was ever open to really, but this time her voice only sounded cold and harsh.
Haruhiko at the door did not reply, but his facial expression said just about everything. "...You know, since you're going anyway, sleep-deprivedness is not going to make a good first impression for your students" he finally said, giving Mikoto a rather unpleasant reminder of the upcoming day.
Mikoto in return made no reply, she just folded her arms and turned to look away from him. Haruhiko just sighed and began to walk back inside , but said one last to thing to her from over his shoulder.
"Could you at least be back in by 8 o'clock, okay?" he called out, halfway expecting her to place her hands over her ears to block him out. Mikoto however just hesitated and looked downwards.
The thing about being up since the middle of the night is that you at least have a head start when it comes to getting there on time.
The morning having progressed further now, shaping up to be a sunny day with the occasional cloud cover, Mikoto walked her bike, a not-to-sleek and slightly old-fashioned thing with a basket at the front, out on to the street pavement and carefully got up on it. Haruhiko had told her he would be coming along with her to the school to at least see her settled down for the day, however not having the problems with public transport that she did he'd be taking the regular bus.
The morning wind felt cold on the back off Mikoto's neck, but she quickly shook herself to through the chill off and started pedalling along. She'd have to head northwest to get to Tenmei Gakuen, past the Sunokaben Gardens, across the train-tracks and even slightly uphill, and to be honest she didn't feel like she had the energy, or even the desire, to achieve half of that distance.
Oh, but she finally got there, even if she was forced to walk her bicycle uphill when her leg muscles got too tired of all that pedalling. Panting for breath, she was about as sleepy as Haruhiko said she'd be, Mikoto tried to shake herself awake and turned around to look at Tenmei Gakuen, the place she'd be teaching at for about a year.
She didn't like the look of the place much when she had first been here for that signing-up business, and her thoughts had hardly changed since. The white colour to the walls made it look all sterile to her, and the place had so many buildings she was certain she'd get lost. I guess the place does look 'prestigious', she thought to herself, though all the more uninviting because of it.
Just then she saw Haruhiko coming up wandering to her. "Got here first", he muttered, mockingly taking the tone of someone more immature, "by about eight minutes, I'd say".
As Mikoto again chose not to reply, Haruhiko then said "The opening ceremony starts in a matter of time. Look, if you're embarassed about me being here or anything, I can just enter the hall from round the back while you find somewhere to sit".
"...I'm not embarassed" Mikoto softly replied "It's just - it's just - that I don't..." she began, but it was obvious she was having difficult finding the words.
"Look, things are going to be alright" Haruhiko tried to reassure her, but as that seemed to have no effect he just said, with a mild bitter tone, "Please, don't make a fool of yourself".
'Fool eh? No, that attribute doesn't look quite right for you, not now anyway. I'd say you're more of a...' a voice coming from... what looked like nowhere suddenly said, though for some reason Mikoto did notice a strange, purple-coloured(?) bat flying quickly overhead before disappearing.
A bit unnerved, though trying to shake the memory of the voice out of her mind, Mikoto took one last look back at Haruhiko before going inside the School Hall to find a place amongst the teachers' seats.
Mikoto Kobayashi would've given anything though to have that night last forever, anything to not have to face this particular day. She had been strolling, or could it be called shuffling, around in her garden since she-didn't-know-what-time, but easily very late in the night, as she had been completely unable to sleep.
Having, let's say, a 5 year-old being moody about having to go to school is one thing. Having a 24 year-old being moody about having to go to school is another. Not that Mikoto was to be a student or anything, a gimmicky comedy film her existence was most definitely not. About a week ago her older brother Haruhiko had signed her up as a teacher over at Tenmei Gakuen, a prestigious High School in the north of town, in order to at least make some improvement to her social skills. Though she had agreed to this, it was only really because she did not want to see her brother disappointed in her anymore, being anything but a people-person Mikoto was incredibly reluctant about the whole thing.
"How long have you been out there?" a tired voice, though not necessarily from lack of sleep, said to her from over by the back doorstep.
Mikoto slowly turned around, and quite bluntly answered "I don't know. For hours". Usually she was a lot more polite and open with her brother, he was the only person she was ever open to really, but this time her voice only sounded cold and harsh.
Haruhiko at the door did not reply, but his facial expression said just about everything. "...You know, since you're going anyway, sleep-deprivedness is not going to make a good first impression for your students" he finally said, giving Mikoto a rather unpleasant reminder of the upcoming day.
Mikoto in return made no reply, she just folded her arms and turned to look away from him. Haruhiko just sighed and began to walk back inside , but said one last to thing to her from over his shoulder.
"Could you at least be back in by 8 o'clock, okay?" he called out, halfway expecting her to place her hands over her ears to block him out. Mikoto however just hesitated and looked downwards.
***
The thing about being up since the middle of the night is that you at least have a head start when it comes to getting there on time.
The morning having progressed further now, shaping up to be a sunny day with the occasional cloud cover, Mikoto walked her bike, a not-to-sleek and slightly old-fashioned thing with a basket at the front, out on to the street pavement and carefully got up on it. Haruhiko had told her he would be coming along with her to the school to at least see her settled down for the day, however not having the problems with public transport that she did he'd be taking the regular bus.
The morning wind felt cold on the back off Mikoto's neck, but she quickly shook herself to through the chill off and started pedalling along. She'd have to head northwest to get to Tenmei Gakuen, past the Sunokaben Gardens, across the train-tracks and even slightly uphill, and to be honest she didn't feel like she had the energy, or even the desire, to achieve half of that distance.
Oh, but she finally got there, even if she was forced to walk her bicycle uphill when her leg muscles got too tired of all that pedalling. Panting for breath, she was about as sleepy as Haruhiko said she'd be, Mikoto tried to shake herself awake and turned around to look at Tenmei Gakuen, the place she'd be teaching at for about a year.
She didn't like the look of the place much when she had first been here for that signing-up business, and her thoughts had hardly changed since. The white colour to the walls made it look all sterile to her, and the place had so many buildings she was certain she'd get lost. I guess the place does look 'prestigious', she thought to herself, though all the more uninviting because of it.
Just then she saw Haruhiko coming up wandering to her. "Got here first", he muttered, mockingly taking the tone of someone more immature, "by about eight minutes, I'd say".
As Mikoto again chose not to reply, Haruhiko then said "The opening ceremony starts in a matter of time. Look, if you're embarassed about me being here or anything, I can just enter the hall from round the back while you find somewhere to sit".
"...I'm not embarassed" Mikoto softly replied "It's just - it's just - that I don't..." she began, but it was obvious she was having difficult finding the words.
"Look, things are going to be alright" Haruhiko tried to reassure her, but as that seemed to have no effect he just said, with a mild bitter tone, "Please, don't make a fool of yourself".
'Fool eh? No, that attribute doesn't look quite right for you, not now anyway. I'd say you're more of a...' a voice coming from... what looked like nowhere suddenly said, though for some reason Mikoto did notice a strange, purple-coloured(?) bat flying quickly overhead before disappearing.
A bit unnerved, though trying to shake the memory of the voice out of her mind, Mikoto took one last look back at Haruhiko before going inside the School Hall to find a place amongst the teachers' seats.
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