AC: I decided to do something a little more lighthearted. Though it might come out as something kinda awkward the first time around...


Near the base of Youkai Mountain lies a small house, surrounded by hundreds of orange trees. The house itself is in a clearing of the forest, where leaves of various colors scatter across the ground. Here, the two Aki sisters reside, goddesses of the colorful season of autumn.

The younger sister stands in the kitchen, chopping up apples for breakfast. She dices the apples into tiny cubes, and places them in a bowl. As she takes out bread from the pantry, the other sister walks sleepily into the kitchen.

"Good mooooooorning, Mini…" she mutters to Minoriko while yawning. She managed to get herself dressed and into the kitchen, yet she still seems half-asleep. She wears her traditional autumn clothes: a red-orange dress cut with a leaf pattern on the bottom, long red sleeves, and red leaves in her bright yellow hair. Stumbling to the table in the center of the room, she plops down with a "Pyuu…" on the ground.

"You're hopeless, onee-chan," Minoriko teases as she finishes spreading the jam onto slices of bread. When she takes the finished bread and apples to the table, she notices that Shizuha is quickly dozing off, She would close her eyes and start falling to the side, but jerk back upright and open her eyes awake, only to start falling again.

Close, fall, jerk, open. Close, fall, jerk, open. Close, fall, jerk, open. This happens several times before Minoriko snaps her fingers in front of her older sister.

"Pyuu~…?" Shizuha mumbles in her half-conscious state. She turns to face Minoriko. "Oh, hello, Mini," she says, but still not fully awake yet. She soon returns to her falling over act.

Minoriko sighs. "I guess I have to do everything for you," she says to the dozing Shizuha. Minoriko takes the bread covered in jam and sprinkles some of the tiny apple pieces on it. She snaps her fingers again to the get her older sister's attention, and holds a corner of the bread in front of her. "Say 'aah'," Minoriko instructs.

"Aaaaah…" Shizuha copies, opening her mouth. Minoriko feeds the bread to Shizuha as she takes a small bite out of it. Minoriko repeats the process, instructing Shizuha to say 'aah' and then chew and then swallow.