Shuichi Saihara always found detective work to be draining, he didn’t think that living on a farm instead would be much of an improvement, but he thought it’d be better than the mental torture of being a detective. He had left to a rural town in a place called Stardew Valley, his aunt used to live there long ago and allowed him to have the farm she used to have.

While living there, Shuichi found that all the villagers seemed more distressed, apparently there had been something living in the JojaMart. The children gave an account that it was a monster that scared and ate little children who stayed out too late, the older villagers said that it was just some antisocial homeless person who was useless to the community. Either way, Shuichi still investigated.

One evening, Shuichi slipped past the broken doors of the JojaMart, he could hear a voice loud and clear echoing inside the near empty building. There were Junimos, dozens of them and each one had a checkered accessory. They were surrounding a makeshift throne made of cardboard boxes, Kokichi Ouma was sitting there and was in the midst of a speech.

“This is exactly why we should rebel against the community, who cares that we don’t pay taxes?!” Kokichi was about to say more but cut himself off when he saw that Shuichi was there, he paused and silently glared at Shuichi, all the Juminos turned around to also watch Shuichi.