The Curse Effect
"So the evidence you were talking about is here?" Shiraishi Aya asked in confusion as she followed Sakakibara Masaya through the quiet campus of East Capital University.
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"So the evidence you were talking about is here?" Shiraishi Aya asked in confusion as she followed Sakakibara Masaya through the quiet campus of East Capital University.
In 1981, a bronze sword was unearthed from an ancient tomb in Izumo, Shimane. Inscribed along the blade were the old characters:
I have always felt that the world is unfair. On the day my father was killed at the construction site, everyone else ran out.
These days I make a habit of walking past the gates of Toei Studios every morning. In winter, the people who come there carrying dreams of becoming actors are everywhere.
Even now, Yoshiki often remembers the sight of Natsukawa Mio standing beside him beneath that vast sky. The evening glow lay across her forehead like a rainbow crown.
"At Asagiri Slope, the castle of memory has already fallen." I once told you that my greatest wish was to grow up as quickly as possible and leave the place that made me unhappy.
I was seventeen when I learned to paint my nails. In the basement arcade not far from school, the salesgirl at the nail-polish counter kept egging me on.
On the night before our mock exam, Kamiya Itsuki got his heart broken. Shamefully enough, when I heard the news I was so happy I could barely stop grinning, and I even kept him...