Sunset's human world origin

Dad’s childhood home
Date: June 1st, time: 7:00 am

*Emi’s perspective*

“Emi, get up.”, Sunset said.

“No, I’m tired.”

“Are you more tired or more hungry?”

Emi thought about it for a moment before her stomach answered for her.

“I’ll take that as you being more hungry.”

“Fine, I’ll get up.”

Sunset and Emi left their room and went to the kitchen. The usual sight of their dad cooking greeted them, but the usual sight of their mother planning out their day did not greet them.

“Hey Dad, where’s Mom?”, Sunset asked.

“She and Ryoko went shopping. Today is going to be a ‘take care of the house’ day.”

“House work, but we’re on vacation.”, Emi said.

“Yes, we are on vacation. We are going to be on vacation for a few more weeks. We can spare the time to clean and do maintenance. Now, get washed up. Breakfast is going to be ready soon.”

Dad’s childhood home
Date: same day, time: 8:00 am

*Emi’s perspective*

After breakfast, Emi, Dad, and Sunset got to cleaning and doing assorted maintenance stuff - hold up.

“Dad, where’s Grandpa?”, Emi asked.

“He’s at Grandma’s grave.”

“Oh”

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“How long were they married for?”, Sunset asked.

“Twenty years, but they both grew up in this village and knew each other since they were kids.”

“You said Grandma died in a train derailment, and that you now specialize in criminal negligence cases because of that, but what’s the full story?”, Sunset asked.

“I’d rather not talk about it.”

“That bad, huh?”, Emi said.

Dad didn’t respond to that.

Amigata village proper
Date: same day, time: 9:00 am

*Brigid’s perspective*

“How can we be out of saké already?”, Brigid asked.

“Dad’s a heavy drinker.”, Ryoko said.

“I know that, but this is a lot, even for him.”

“It gets worse when he comes back. He’s probably at the grave, drunk out of his mind.”

“I’ve never seen him completely wasted.”

“That’s the real reason he moved to the US. Over there, he’s not constantly reminded of Mom. He never put his patients in danger, but he would also not show up to work. It was either move or be consumed by his grief.”

After they were done shopping, Brigid and Ryoko were making their way back home, until-

“Hey you, you're that restaurant owner’s girlfriend.”, the Running Joke Gang’s leader said.

“What do you want now?”, Ryoko asked, annoyed.

“Well, you see, you are going to get your boyfriend to pay us the money we’re owed, or we’ll hurt your family.”

Ryoko was about to speak, before Brigid cut in.

“Here, take these.” Brigid handed her bags to Ryoko then turned to the gang. “Listen here you little punks. You just threatened my family. That was the absolute worst decision you could have made. Now, I am going to give the three of you a chance to run before I put you in the dirt. So, start running now or die.”

None of them made any moves to leave.

“Do you really think you can take us? We’re the Invincible Oni Raijin Gang.”, crony #1 said.

“Yeah, plus, you’re a girl. Girls are weak.”, crony #2 said.

Brigid’s face was a mix of fury and ‘I’m completely done with this shit’. Do these idiots not realize I’m two feet taller than them and weigh as much as the three of them combined? “That was the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. You’re dead.” Brigid charged at the three. Crony #2 tried to charge Brigid, but she just grabbed his shirt, tossed him into the air, grabbed him by his ankles, and used him as a club against his friends. The other two tried to fight back and then tried running, but Brigid just stuffed two of them under her left arm then the last under her right.

“Hey, let us go.”, one of the Stupid Gang members said.

“Come on Ryoko. Let’s go home.”

“What are you going to do with them?”, Ryoko asked warily.

“Haven’t decided yet. Now, let’s go. These are squirmy little bastards.”

Anzhong’s childhood home
Date: same day, time: 10:30 am

*Ryoko’s perspective*

“Well, this is a surprise.”, Anzhong said.

The three goons were tied to the peach tree.

“I vote we waterboard them.”, Sunset said.

Everyone, that could look, gave Sunset odd looks.

“How do you know about waterboarding?”, Brigid asked.

“Did you forget I have a computer, or have you just not met me?”

“What’s waterboarding?”, Emi asked.

“We’ll tell you when you’re older. Now, back to them. We’ll put waterboarding in the maybe column.”, Anzhong said.

“Tie them up by their ankles.”, Emi said, then a sparkle appeared in her eye. “Without their clothes, in the middle of the village!”

“That, I like.”, Brigid said.

Amigata village center
Date: same day, time: 11:15 am

*Ryoko’s perspective*

“You have a very interesting family.”, Oda said.

The three Oni Raijin Gang members were, as Emi suggested, hanging upside down, by their ankles, in nothing but their underwear. They ended up being gagged since they wouldn’t shut up.

“You think this will get them to leave?”, Oda asked.

“Maybe. Hopefully it will set a precedent for the rest of the village.”, Ryoko said.

“That if you misbehave, you’ll be strung up by your ankles and stripped.”

“No, you goober.” Ryoko elbowed Oda. “That it’s time to fight.”

Anzhong’s childhood home
Date: June 30th, time: 6:00 am

*Sunset’s perspective*

“Is everyone almost packed?”, Brigid asked.

“It - won’t - fit.”, Emi said, jumping up and down on her suitcase.

“Well, jumping up and on it isn’t going to make it fit. Hold on, all this stuff fitted in your bag on the way here. Why isn't it fitting now.?”, Sunset asked.

“Because I moved some of the stuff from my backpack into here.”

“Why?”

Emi got off her suitcase and went over to her backpack. “I need to make space for this.” She pulled out the item in question. “It’s a kabuki fox mask. Mom said not to put valuable things in our checked luggage.”

A small smile crept across Sunset’s face. “Here, I still have some room in my bag.”