S1 Main Story/Prologue 0

**Fleeting Memory,** is the first introductory chapter of **Sakuragawa:Starlight Festival.**

## Summary

A certain girl recalls a memory from the past, prior to the inauguration. How will that play out?

## Transcript

**- 12 Years Ago -**

[Floor 30, Harmonia Skyscraper, Tsutsujimori City, Masayoshi Ward, Amanoshima]

Two Girls: Wow...!

Platium Blue-Haired Girl: So this is what Harmonia Skyscraper looks like from the very top!

Dark Green-Haired Girl: Yeah..! It is!

Dark Green-Haired Girl: This is the first time that I went up there...

Platium Blue-Haired Girl: Anna-chi, do you usually go up there with your family?

Anna: I don't. Tatsuya-san orders me to not reach the top floor, since it gets very windy up here...

Platium Blue-Haired Girl: Aww.... That's a shame! The scenery up here is so beautiful!

Anna: Haha...

Anna: Didn't you have a photo of us in the dawn, Yukimi-chan?

Yukimi: I do! Oh, but I did frame it somewhere...

Anna: That's nice!

Yukimi: Anyway! Anna!

Anna: Hm?

Yukimi: There was something that I wanna talk about while we're here...

Anna: Something about the world that you want to live in?

Yukimi: Bingo!

Anna: Alright!

Yukimi: So...

*(While Yukimi stretches her arms out in the open, Anna gets up and streches alongside the girl next to her.)*

Yukimi: You know how everytime we go out in Ahazuya City, we see some really talented musicians out there...

Anna: I know! There are some guitarists who I really like listening to, but I don't see many people pay attention to them.

Anna: There's also a few other musicians whose whole financial income relies on busking in the streets, where only a few people pay attention to the music they create.

Anna: ...Why do I imagine that once they get an office job, they're willing to ditch their artistic skills to work in a company who treats them like lowlifes, so that they can get a paycheck?

Yukimi: Eh?!

Yukimi: As a musician, that's not the world that I want to live in! Mou!!!!

Anna: Of course not, but then again...

Yukimi: The music industry is quite competitive, isn't it?

Anna: Sabotages, judge corruption, bribing, wasted effort...

Anna: Along with scandals, and so forth...

Anna: ...I would like to address the first four points that I mentioned, though.

Yukimi: Hoh?

Anna: Amanoshima is the island where music gathers, is it not?

Yukimi: Mmhm!

Anna: What I would like to do is to make sure that musicians whose skills are worthy of fame are acknowledged by the masses.

Yukimi: Mmhm?! You mean-

Anna: For example, if an another musician's opportunity is missed due to bribing from an another, it is assumed that the musician performing the bribes would rather use their finance as an easy way to gain the top.

Anna: In that case, that musician will be dealt with immediately. As for the other musician affected by the attempted bribing, they will then have a legitimate way of taking the opportunities that they almost missed.

Yukimi: That sounds really good, Anna-chi!

Yukimi: It's the exact image of the world that I want to live in!

Anna: I mean-

Anna: I want to consider the benefits for every musician out in Amanoshima.

Yukimi: Is there any more you wanna mention?

Anna: Oh yes! There's...

...

**- 12 Years Later -**

[Floor 29, Harmonia Skyscraper, Tsutsujimori City, Masayoshi Ward, Amanoshima]

Anna: ...

Anna: ...Huh?

Anna: ...Yukimi?

Light Brown-Haired Girl: Tenbashi-sama, did you recall something?

Anna: I did... Why do you wish to ask?

Hinohara Ruruka: It has been 10 years since you last recalled your friend's name, after all.

(Anna sighs.)

Anna: It has been a decade since Yukimi died.

Anna: Considering that Amanoshima right now is the same image as she desired...

Ruruka: That is true.

Anna: \*cough\*

Anna: We went on a tangent, I apologise.

Ruruka: It's okay, Tenbashi-sama.

Anna: Now for the topic at hand. Bring out your files.

Ruruka: Understood.

*(The bodyguard and the CEO eventually sit down on the office table. Ruruka then takes out a document of an event.)*

Ruruka: At 8PM today, Embers will have their final performance at Chronosis Livehouse. It is located at Koshimitsu City in Nakanohara Ward.

Anna: Have you sent the collection notice to Embers' bassist and keyboardist, Nanjou Matsuri and Isonokami Tohru respectively?

Ruruka: No. I have not.

Anna: At the very least, is it in the dressing room?

Ruruka: Yes.

Ruruka: The notice only says Selene and Nyx, however. Will that suffice?

Anna: Yes.

Ruruka: Thank you.

Anna: Head back and discuss to the guards about today's meeting. Then get the staff members of Chronosis Livehouse to prepare the premises. You have until 7:30PM.

Ruruka: Understood, Tenbashi-sama.

*(The bodyguard exits the 29th floor.)*

Anna: ...

Anna: As the both of you sabotaged more than 5 performances...

Anna: Your fates are sealed. You've both made a transgression against Amanoshima.