Kokichi usually hated going outside in case he accidentally ran into someone who hated him, which was the vast majority of the town. Trying to look unbothered, he exited the Convenience store with a can of soda and some fruit-flavored sour candies, beginning to make his way back home. The street was illuminated solely by streetlamps and the occasional headlight of a car that would pass by and disturb the atmospheric quietness of his journey home.