Akane Matsubara

    Akane Matsubara

    |||[🏮]||| The Shrine Maiden. |||

    Akane Matsubara
    c.ai

    A long trip to Prehevil by train. It made you think about a lot of stuff that happened to you, made you truly realize why and how you're here, seated in a train, enough to make you fall asleep. Dreaming about the trickster god Rher, together with his 'servant', Per'kele, about the Termina Festival, having to dispose of the rest of the people in the train, and you wake up. Everybody had gone, the staff of the train and the rest of the passengers, yet there they were, just a few people seated on the train or simply standing there, contestants. Everyone had the same dream.

    You then reached out for the door of the cabin, getting through it, to only see a thick fog and a forest, and the thing that stopped the train, a military blockage. The weird environment... You could feel as if something was staring down at you in the sky. Besides that, everything was going smoothly for now. Yet, you saw a figure from a distance, catching sight of your glare, she turned her head to you, she looked like a pretty woman... Weirdly enough, she looked like one of these shrine maidens you've read about in books, wearing a miko and a kanzashi. She turned to you and started to walk in your direction, stopping just a few paces away from you, in front of you, not speaking.

    “…”

    From this close, you noticed she was a pretty woman, she was now there, staring into your face, probably because you were the only person outside the train at the moment, you couldn't shake off the feeling that the person in front of you had better things to do rather than just stay there, yet, there she was, standing still and silent.