Episode 4 Sakura the Secre

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Author's Note: See if you can guess the order.
Episode 4: Sakura the Secret Keeper
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Wow. There's a lot in here.
Not as much as the first room.
Certainly close. Much more than tou-san's room, certainly.
I think that room really fits him though. Nothing extra, just the important things. Serious.
Then this room certainly fits Kaa-san. Kawaii.
Let's start looking around. There's some powerful magic in here, but I can't tell where...
Certainly not in this...

It's a children's story book. The Little Piggy Story'. Strange...
Why would they have that in here?
Mayhaps it was kaa-san's favorite book when she was...woah...

It's a library book.
A library book? From what library?

They haven't been there in a long time...
I know. The book's fifteen years overdue.
!
Maybe that's why kaa-san hasn't gone back. Library fines can get pretty high over such a long period of time...

Why would she keep it this long?
No idea...although the same with this....
It's a pair of roller blades.
Kaa-san knows how to roller blade?
These can't have fit her for years...even years before they made this room...
They keep a lot of strange things in this section.

And here's yet another.
What is it this time?
A watch.

Seriously. It's a small pink watch. The battery's most assuredly stopped working for a long time, but it's an actual watch.
Very strange...
Oh look, another book...two actually...
Doesn't look like they're very professionally made ones.
Maybe they aren't.
Maybe they aren't books.
You're saying?
They look more like scripts.

Yes, scripts.
That makes sense actually...it would explain why they're so shabby...
What are they called?
Well, this one looks like Sleeping Beauty.
And the other?
I can't really tell.
Why don't you look inside it then?
It won't open.
It's stuck shut?
Must've been here for a long time.
I wonder when the last time anyone came here was...including them....
Oh! I got it!

It's called The Magic Stone'.
Seriously? Didn't performances of that just start last year?
I think so. How would something so new have deteriorated so much?
Maybe it's not new. Maybe this one was written before then. A gencho.
But why would kaa-san have an original work of this play?
Well, the playwright is japanese. Maybe they knew her.
She did get that look in her eyes when we went to see it...
And she already knew the storyline....
She may have even acted in the original production!
As what though?
I think this answers that question...

It's so beautiful....
Doesn't look like something kaa-san would wear though.
And why not?! I think it suits her just fine...
It is her color...but the way the front of it goes up like that doesn't really suit her...
What's that supposed to mean?

I think it looks rather kawaii.
That's probably good. Looks like it might fit you, actually.
It might. Kaa-san probably was my age when she wore something like this.
Still, that was a long time ago...
Couldn't have been that long.
Not as long as since she last wore this, at least.
Another dress?

Wow! That's marvelous!
Why would kaa-san have such an outfit?
I think it might be for the same reason that tou-san had that dress...

You don't think so?
Well...I guess...that might be true....
Maybe it's for one of these plays. Yeah, that's it, they must've been in these plays together. And I think I can guess what parts....
Kami-sama! Look at this! Itatte wa kawaiiii!

Oh, but look at this! Hanyaan....
What is it?
It's a little hand-stitched black teddy bear!




....I don't get it....
Look at what it says on the tag!


Yeah, I guess that is a bit cute...
Oh, why would kaa-san leave something this precious down here?
Perhaps she grew out of it?
I don't see how she could...it's just so...so....


Ooook.....moving along....
Well, I'm still going to hold this thing. So nyah.
Fine, fine...whatever...
Oooo...now this IS weird....
Most assuredly.
It's like that picture in the Tomoyo' room...
Only with a lot more people.
Who look very strange.
Most of which we don't know.
And what are they wearing?!
Well, tou-san, I think that's him, looks like he's wearing that ceremonial robe from his room. And kaa-san, well, I'm not sure what she's wearing, but I think I saw it in the Tomoyo' room. Then here's Kero-
Stop calling him that.
Well, do you know who it is?
No, but I just don't think that's his name...
Wait a second. I think I recognize this guy.
Of course, silly. That's oji-san.
It's been years since he came to visit us.
He does live in Japan. And his salary isn't exactly very high.
Oh, and look, this is oba-san.
Are you sure? They can't have been together so long.
And why not?
Well, they just don't seem like it...
I don't recognize anyone else on it though.
How would you? I mean, look at these four over here.
They were probably added in as a graphic addition after the photo was taken.
It was done rather well then. And they look so realistic...
Except that the panther and girl have butterfly wings, while the lion and the guy have bird wings....
Maybe just the wings were added on later.
Still doesn't account for the armor on the cats. And the rather odd taste in clothes of the other two...
I think the guy looks rather tansei....
You would.
What did you say?!
Ow....nothing, nothing...and what would they be doing in a picture with kaa-san and tou-san? Not to mention oji-san and oba-san....
That, I can't guess. Oh, but here's that girl from the Tomoyo room, and she's standing next to the blue-haired guy.

His name ISN'T Kero.
Prove it.
I will.
I'm waiting....
I meant later.

But who's this last person?
She looks familiar.
Sort of...she kinda looks like baa-san...
You mean she's another relative we don't know about?
I guess so.
I'm really not liking finding out how much kaa-san and tou-san have been lying about.
Then why don't we just leave?
Because there's still stuff in this room.
But you just said-
There might be something important we haven't seen yet.
Like this?
Another picture? You'd think one of them was obsessed with photography...
Could be. Demo, this one looks like a normal one, although i still don't know anyone in it. Except maybe him.
Yes, he does look quite familiar. I don't where from though.
I think it's someone from kaa-san's side of the family.
Nandemo, your reasoning would be?
Well, look at that picture he's holding. That's the same one kaa-san keeps in the kitchen.
Oh. Right.
Oh, and this guy kind of looks like the one from that other picture.
Only with shorter hair, no wings, and different clothes.

We're going to have a lot of questions for them tomorrow morning, aren't we?
Quite definitely.
And it looks like we've seen the whole place.
Are you sure?
No, but do you see anywhere we haven't gone?
Not physically.

I sense something. We haven't seen anything magical in this room yet, but I sense something very powerful.
You think it might be hidden?

Then how are we going to get to it?

Do you at least have any idea what direction?


That wall.