Prologue:
The year is 2035.
Japan.
Crowds of spectators are gathering around in anticipation of the first full solar eclipse of the twenty-first century.
My name is Soma Cruz, and I am a high school exchange student studying abroad in Japan.
I live near the Hakuba Shrine, an ancient shrine with strong ties to Japanese mythology.
Mina Hakuba, the only daughter of the shrine's caretaker, is both my classmate and my childhood friend.
I starting making my way to the shrine to see the solar eclipse with Mina. But, for some strange reason, the stairway leading up to the shrine felt longer than usual, as if something was trying to keep us from our destination.
When I finally managed to get through the shrine gate, and my senses began to dim…
The pitch black sun is holding chaotic darkness together, trying to rouse a sleeping soul as if looking for its missing other half…
The green fields and trees were as green as ever. The wind whistle very lightly and making the tress dance along with the wind. The light of the sun was turning dark as the moon was covering it very slowly. The once blue sky turn dark as the night. The clouds that were almost on the sun and moon start to spread out to let it see with all its might.
A young tall man with a white hair as the snow, pale skin and brown eyes was walking up the stairway to see the solar eclipse. He was wearing light blue jeans, a dark t-shirt with neck, white shoes with dark on the tip of his toes. He has a white trench coat with fur collar around their cloak.
Behind him was a young girl, shorter than him, her blond-orange hair, pale skin and dark-brown eyes. She was wearing a traditional costume or dress of a miko is a chihaya, which consists of a scarlet red hakama (divided skirt), a red shirt and a white T-shirt that is on top of it with swinging sleeves, and tabis. From each side of her hair are red ribbons holding her front hair to see her rounded face.
The same wind was making their clothes fly with each step they took up, by the time they pass through the shrine… a dark bat start to fly toward the eclipse and vanish. And once the full solar eclipse was seen… a strange floating castle was levitating in there and everything turn into pure darkness.