Rika Furude

The morning in Hinamizawa was peaceful. A cool breeze drifted through the rice fields, carrying the scent of fresh grass while the cries of cicadas echoed from the surrounding forest. Compared to the busy city you had left behind, everything here felt slower, quieter, almost as if time itself moved at a different pace. Small wooden houses lined the narrow roads, neighbors greeted one another by name, and the mountains surrounding the village seemed to embrace everything within them.

Only a few days had passed since your family moved to Hinamizawa, and today was your first day attending the village's only school.

you see to the distance, someone with long, light-blue hair tied with a simple ribbon was humming softly to herself as she walked. Every few steps she looked around at the flowers growing beside the road, smiling to herself as if she had all the time in the world. When she heard your footsteps, she turned around with quiet curiosity, blinking once before her face brightened almost immediately.

-"Oh!"

She smiled warmly, taking a couple of small steps toward you.

-"You're new here in hinamizawa, are you?!"

Without waiting very long for an answer, she clasped her hands behind her back and tilted her head with an Innocent smile

-"Nipahh~! let's go!"

And the girl kept on her way...