IMEEJI MEMORY REGISTRY;

[quickpersuader]

There's gonna be a lot of CWs in here but I will warn per memory.

Future regain list:
-A Tale of Fighting People cont
-Land of Adults 3
-Land of Kindness 3
-"To Do Something"
-Colosseum
-School
-Land of Visible Pain
-Land of Acknowledgement*
-A Land that Never Forgets*
-A Land Without Borders (day 2)

Formatting:

<a href=LINK>Memory</a> - DAYOF TITLE Description: DESCRIPTIONHERE <b>Note:</b> the original Japanese does not particularly gender Kino, and by default most people tend to assume Kino is male upon sight, so assume cases of "Miss" etc. are just some polite referral to Kino (one official translation uses Mx.) unless otherwise noted.

Comments

Day 435 cw: gore, suicide bombing, terrorism

[quickpersuader]

Memory - Fourth day of The Country With the School — Assignment

Description: A slightly younger Kino drives the talking motorrad Hermes to a country in the middle of a forest, already familiar with traveling to this place. They travel to a small town in particular, only to find the residents watching as a school building is bulldozed. A pretty young woman is handcuffed outside by the police, and Kino keeps their expression carefully apathetic as they ask what's going on.

The police determine that they must not be from the area and explain that the school was actually a terrorist cell where the woman taught twelve children around Kino's age to be make bombs, resulting in an attack on the capital that left hundreds dead. The police scoff - this town is poor and crummy and their families probably encouraged them to die as part of their faith.

The young woman looks to each of the residents before seeing Kino and smiling slightly. When the police demand to know if Kino knows her, Kino firmly responds that there's no way they could. The woman looks satisfied to hear this as she steps into the back of the police van to be executed. A single large bullet is shot into the van, and as the police pack up to leave, the woman's corpse is tossed out with her face gouged out. The residents wait until the police are gone before tending to the body - and Kino leaves wordlessly, remembering an important lesson.

...all you have to do...

...is make sure you don’t repeat the same mistake the next time.

Note: the original Japanese does not particularly gender Kino, and by default most people tend to assume Kino is male upon sight, so assume cases of "Miss" etc. are just some polite referral to Kino (one official translation uses Mx.) unless otherwise noted.