Masuda Village

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The setting the story takes place in is a remote village in the mountains called "Masuda Village" (named after it's creators). The village is old-fashioned and self-sufficient.

## General

Electricity *is* available, however, and distributed throughout the village by a generator located in the General Union Office at the foot of the mountain.

The village has a small, declining population of about 100 people, with few young people and very few women. Their women appear to have disappeared over the years.

The village has a lights-out curfew on electricity at 10 o'clock pm, and telephones, televisions, etc are also shared with the village's Union Office.

## Locations

There are different areas and community buildings within the village. The village has a village school, a community center, a union office, and a men's training center.

### *Central Village Community Center*

The community center is located in the foothills, on the grounds of the village school. Youth meetings are held everyday at 3:00pm, and sometimes the old ladies in the village bring them food during the meetings.

### *Masuda Village School*

The school is located at the foot of the mountains and is an old house that has been renovated. It's an integrated elementary, middle, and high school. The village students used to attend Tonari-cho junior and elementary school in the neighbouring village, but the village was merged with the urban city of Naka and the school was closed due to a lack of students and its merging. In order to prevent more students from leaving Masuda, they opened a mixed school of their own. There are just 3 elementary school students, 2 middle school students, and 6 high school students in the entire village.

### *Sparkling Muscle*

The men's training center is called "Sparkling Muscle", and they offer the men of the village daily training. The "Wild plan" is most popular, although it is very specific and demanding survival training with very little equipment. High schoolers aren't allowed.

## Ways of the village

### *Fighting*

Part of the village's culture is that a big source of their entertainment comes from people in the village getting into fights. Anytime there's a fight, someone rings the bell to bring all of the villagers together, and the participants are each given swords. The spectators bring drinks and snacks, and make bets on who will survive. Villagers tend to behave in a mild manner to avoid becoming such a spectacle...after all, they pay the ultimate price if they lose.

### *Crime*

Those guilty of crime in the village are tied up and exposed to the public in the village. People will crowd in one by one, and be told about the good things the guilty person has done before(?), and at the end, the elder will tell the story of the guilty person's upbringing(?). Then, the villagers will all sing "furusato" and the guilty person will be released. Most villagers are, again, too afraid of what they'll really do if they do something bad, and thus there's very little if any crime.

### *Free time*

It's the people of the village's way to use their free-time outside of the busy farming season to improve their skills. It's not uncommon for an old, weak-looking man to suddenly turn around and display great ability. The people of the village go about this through training at the men's training center or joining the women's association.

Surrounded by adults like these, the children of the village are trained from a young age, because it's a long time from them being on an equal playing field, and they don't have the power to rebel.

## Community associations

There is a Youth association, a Women's association, and memberships available for men to train daily.

### *Masuda Village Women's Association*

The Masuda Village Women's Association "Kirai-go" teaches self-defense techniques. O'Yone, estimated 87 years old, who has the ability to roll bears under wind pressure(?), is the teacher who provides the women direct guidance. She's rumored to know the "old martial arts", but the truth is unknown. O'Yone's signature soy milk adzuki bean pudding, nicknamed "The Wind God" is served after practice, and the members look forward to it every week.

### *Youth Association*

As mentioned above, Youth meetings are held everyday at 3:00pm, and are held at the Central Village Community Center.

## Azir Festival

The village has festivals five times a year, including the important "Azir" festival.

The Azir festival is very mysterious. The kagura dance, which is said to imitate the creation of mankind, lasts for two whole days, the chanting is very difficult to understand, and the dance and costumes are full of mysteries.

Several cultural anthropologists have visited the village to investigate the mysteries of the festival, but all of them have either gone insane or been found living as hermits in the mountains.

The word "Azir" comes from a Frenchman of German descent who was was washed ashore in a village in the late Edo period, and shouted out in a fit of excitement when he saw the village festival. Afterwards, he stayed in the Masuda Village and wrote the "Yurutama Diary".

His records are completely disregarded as research material because of his unprofessional excitement and strange handwriting.

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