JUN-ABRIL CITY (7:∑)

Note

*77 :: Un Fantasia Finale

*This final fantasy, 77 or just “Seven” (depending on how the title is represented), is comprised of three co-dependent storylines.

These three storylines are 7:∑ (7:Sigma), ∑xtraσrdinary Ch!ldren, and Hourglass Eternal (depicted by this symbol “⧖”)

Every piece that I write will have the title of an episode, chapter, tale, etc., along with the origin storyline.

JUN-ABRIL CITY (7:∑)

For as long as I’ve been alive, people called this homeland a city when in actuality, it’s a continent. Yea. It’s really just a major continent with a bunch of diverse cities IN it. Its vastness isn’t only measured by the span of the mainland. As the supreme continent, its vastness also comes from its diverse population. Or its extraordinary denizens. Or the legend that makes this city vast as well as cryptic. The story begins with two deity lovers that grew apart after many millennia and split this colossal city in half and placed a locked gate between them from ever seeing one another for all eternity. But as long as I’ve been alive, this city has never been split in half to my knowledge. My grandparent’s grandparents have never seen this city divided either. Needless to say, their grandparents probably hadn’t figured out the myth either. No one still understands this fable because the city isn’t split in half in their eyes. But my mother seems to know the reason for this myth. She used to tell me this bedtime story about this world that housed vile humans and evil spirits called “youkai”. Of course being a kid, anything evil is already considered “bad” or “scary”. She said that side of the world was called “Yin”. It was a world that hadn’t realized the potential of their genes. It was a home for demonic creatures to thrive off the flesh of humanity and destroy the lands that inhabit this “Yin”. It was a scary story for a kid, I’ll admit, but then mom told me something else. “The only reason why that side of the world hadn’t become extinct yet is because of ‘Yang’”. Yang is the side that we live on; where all the good people are. We’re the reason why Yin hasn’t died off yet. It’s a sort of unseen universal balance. My mother said sometimes that demons accidently find their way here, seeking eradication for their sins and the sins of their forefathers. They just…end up here. I didn’t really believe much of this. It sounded like every bedtime story filled with the typical heroes of virtue, humility, wisdom, speed, and keenness and the evil they fight against to protect their humanity from extinction. Corrupt gods and goddesses that seek to purge mankind for their transgressions. Titanic devils that aim to kill gods and mount their heads on display for humans to watch. Taking their hopes

It’s a story of a forgotten era and I do not believe in it.

-Shiguma Tezuka