Shinjuku had been the site of over fifty large-scale military campaigns and disastrous historical events throughout the ages. The rights and wrongs of it all were impossible to untangle, but historians had all taken note of...
Well, she had forgotten the beginning, forgotten the middle, and forgotten the end.
Anyway, Shinjuku was a place entrenched by eccentric monsters and hidden dragons crouching tigers. If it weren't for the fact that she needed to hustle some pennies from a live performance to support her family, Tomoka wouldn't even want to come anywhere near this freakish neighborhood—a district so cursed that even just walking past it required disinfecting your shoes and your retinas.
Not to mention bringing Chichi and Nina—two minors both physically and psychologically—right into its underground shopping mall. She was really sorry for forcing them to experience the dark underbelly of the adult world two years ahead of schedule.
"Why are so many girls around Tomoka's age standing on the side of the road smoking?"
"Never mind them. They're creatures from another world."
"Is that a reporter over there doing an interview? In blue pajamas?"
"Nina, don't go over there. Even if you just show your face and don't say a word, we'll end up infamous all over the internet."
In short, she and Rupa had led the three minors like parents to the scheduled live venue, changed into the outfits provided by the organizers in the dressing room, and by now the stage and competition equipme…
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