PROLOGUE

Kazumi just turned eighteen years old, yet it did not sink in to her that much. She is currently on her final year in junior high school, and it will be her last year of wearing her white blouse with a blue ribbon tie paired to a blue pleated checkered skirt.

"Aw, this is my favorite uniform, though." She thought.

She put them in a hanger and sat down on her bedroom chair and faced her laptop. She then checked for the senior high uniform in advance through the internet and the design was a blouse with a light green vest with a choker, paired to a light green skirt. It was still nice, but she didn't like it that much.

"Well, I don't have the right to complain." She murmured to herself.

"Kazumi-chan!" her mom called out.

"Yes?"

"Can you please bring these artifact collections of your grandmother to our old storage house?"

In an instant, Kazumi felt chills down her spine. She rushed to the kitchen to show her mother how 'scared' she was.

"But Mom, that is abandoned, right?"

Her mom chuckled. "Don't worry. Last month, I called some men in our neighborhood to clean and rebuild that storage house. I just can't stand it being useless."

"Last month!?"

"Yes. And it's not yet a very long time."

Kazumi just sighed and pouted.

"Now come on, you're already eighteen."

"Yes, Mom. I know. I'll take it there."

"Thank you, dear daughter."

As Kazumi was nearing the storage house, she became more nervous.

"Ugh…why now, after all this time? I never went near that storage house in my eighteen years of existence!" she told herself.

Upon entering, the smell of dust and of old things welcomed her, along with a bit of cob webs and some harmless bugs. But either way, she still managed to enter and find an appropriate space for the artifacts. The floor creaked as she walked. After finding a place for the artifacts, she noticed a very old wooden well at the center of the storage house.

A well? What's a well doing in a storage house? This is weird.

She was about to ignore it and hurry outside but somehow, deep inside her, it's as if the well was reaching out to her. Like, she should at least consider checking it out.

There's no harm in trying.

She slowly went down and checked the well. The inside was very dark and then that's it.

"It's just an ordinary well." She said then decided to go out. But before she could even take a step, a strong unknown force pulled her into well.

"AAAAHHHHH! HELP! MOM! BIG BROTHER! DAD! HEEEEELLLLPP!" she screamed. She kept on screaming until no sound was coming out from her mouth. It was like a nightmare. But then her body was getting weak and she was starting to feel dizzy.

Your fate has just been twisted. – The only voice she heard before she completely lost consciousness.