Setsuzoku

by Treshy

Umi is a teenage girl who tries to make the most of her life despite the difficulties and her complicated way of thinking. To help set her mind off the events that make her unhappy, she plays online games. There, she meets numerous friends and eventually experiences all sort of emotional occurences. Umi becomes particularly close to this one online friend of hers, Kuma.

Prologue - Umi

It's hard. It's hard, and scary, having to wake up everyday not knowing what to expect but knowing exactly how the day will go. I will go to school, and I will be alone. I'll be in the bus, listening to the songs randomly shuffling through my playlist. I will be alone when I go to class and I will feel alone in a room full of people. People I can't rely on, people I don't need. People as easy as math homework I never bother to do. I get used to it though. Seeing them walk by, talk to them when they talk to me, not speaking up my actual mind. They don't need to know what they won't understand. Humans really are stupid sometimes- Oh, wait. I can't say that while I'm at the bottom of the class right? Tch. Everything is about succeeding these days. My name is Umi, I'm 15 years old and it seems like there is no light within the end of my tunnel.

Prologue - Kuma

Being born within a privileged family isn't all what it's cut out to be. You are more sustained to be alone, used, and forgotten. That was my case when I was born. I'm what Japanese people would call a Gaijin since I was born of mixed blood to a British father and Japanese mother. However, it wasn't that way until I moved to Japan when I was 14. High school was rough I had to fend for my own against those who saw me venomously. But I took my spot in the spotlight when I was captain of the boxing team and chairman of the Kendo club. But who is to say all of this didn't come with more trouble within the road ahead of me. My name is Kuma Daisuke, I'm 17 years old, and it just seems as life itself isn't worth it sometimes.