Storytelling is quite a marvelous thing, really. With a wave of your fingers and an uttering of a few words, you can divulge your audience whether what's to come is fiction or reality. And it's a maddening idea to even consider that I've not partaken in such a wonderful hobby I consider dear in a very long time. So much has happened over the years that tales that I'm ready to recount have long since been forgotten. It's quite befitting that even with a plethora of regions and cities visited, the only area I intend to focus more on is a quaint island known as Kyogo, of which I would consider a region all on its own. And on that island lies the single most influential school on this world, as you may already know. The Kyogo Arts Academy, regarded highly most recently for sharing with the world the wonders and sorrows of highly advanced technology. Now, were you aware that there came a time before the mass technology ever touched the beautiful and majestic school? A time before technology ruled the world, and was actually a tool that wasn't necessary to live off of? This story that I've chosen to recall takes place before these advancements, so it might seem a big outdated for a young person such as yourself. Fear not, for this tale is one very relateable to both you and me.
One final thing I may add: I am not the type of storyteller to tell my audience whether my story is fictional or real. Myth or fact, that will be for you to to decide. Living in ignorance or in imagination is a choice entirely up to you, my friend. Wild events happened to characters involved in my story, a story of which I did not experience but heard from a dear friend who may have been in the center of it all. I myself believe every last word that I'm about to tell you, for in all my years on this planet I have met all kinds of weird and unexplained.
Choices and decisions. Paths to take, and paths to ignore. That's how it all began, and that's how it will all come to end. Rambling aside, it's high time I got started on my recollections. Sit down, grab a drink, and enjoy my tale that's about to unfold. Without further ado, I bring to you the first of many of a long line: a story within the very halls of the prestigious Kyogo Arts Academy.