Category: Chapter 20

  • 15 — Internal Affairs (The Hermit)

    Hanako: W-Wait, so… I really do have to beat all three of their stories, and keep the save files separate? Hanako was clearly struggling with this new game, but she had made some headway. It was only due to Ueno’s help that she avoided making a critical mistake with her saving habits. But this game…

  • 14 — Good Vibrations

    Despite being originally designed as a hotel, Itokai Dorm’s hallways are infamously hostile to anyone unfamiliar with their layout. Naomi Mitsunaga is finding out the hard way, having spent the last ten minutes dragging the instrument cases in her hands through the fitted-carpet corridors looking for room 236. With an exasperated sigh, she finally arrives…

  • 13 — Internal Affairs (Judgement)

    One of the biggest critiques of New Eden was the disjointed, cramped and overall cold and unwelcome vibe of Yui’s office. Yui never really rectified this, though it was not for lack of care. Yui simply had no knack for decorations in a way that made an office feel warm and inviting. Why would she,…

  • 12 — When You Were Young

    Rikuto bustles around the Tokai home’s dining room, fussing over the tiniest details of cleanliness, double- and triple-checking his files laid out on the table. This would be the first time ever holding a business meeting of any kind in his own home. It couldn’t be helped— the prosecutor’s office was one of the places…

  • 11 — Train Dreams

    With a thunderous sound, a train pierces through the Dreamscape’s fog. Inside, Niko is leaning onto the window, idly gazing at the shadows passing by at high speed. Across from her, a bespectacled girl with bright red hair sits, picking at her nails. Kotori: …Is there a reason we’re taking a train to the Virtuoso’s…

  • 10 — Rockstar

    Kiyoshi Tanemura drops his cigarette and extinguishes it with his foot as he approaches the backstage entrance to The Smile, before noticing a black van parked right in front of it, accompanied by two middle-aged men offloading pieces of a drum kit and bringing them inside. As one of the workers tosses the other one…

  • 9 — Internal Affairs (The Star)

    As the sun begins its slow march towards the horizon Mitakihara University’s School of Arts, Alice is sitting on the edge of the fountain in the middle of the campus’ courtyard, plucking away at her guitar to find an improvement on the melody playing in her ears, which she hastily recorded during a tutoring session…

  • 8 — Who Watches the Watchmen?

    Yosuke: So… I guess they’re basically balancing the Balancers now? Or at least top brass are sending in someone now to assert whether our Balancing followed all the proper rules and regulations. (he sighs, spinning around in his chair) Early the next morning, Yosuke and Koharu are sitting in their usual spots by the window…

  • 7 — Internal Affairs (Justice)

    Yuzuki heads back home to her dorm after her longest weekday of classes. She heaves a sigh. The coursework at this level hardly seemed to be preparing her to sit in the psychiatrist’s chair. And that was if any psychiatric board would accept a practitioner who was crazy herself.  Ikana hadn’t troubled her in quite…

  • 6 — A Light in the Dark

    Mei glanced around the gym— the old gym, the face of Paradise Hall that she reclaimed as her domain— before nodding, stepping out the front doors and onto the street, soon stretching far and away into a blank, white void. As she walked, the form of the Valkyrie materialized at her side, walking beside her.…