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The Truth About Tokisadame
……You've figured it out by now, haven't you?
Izumi-san, Hiiragi-san.
That town of ours, Tokisadame…… doesn't appear anywhere on your maps.
No trace of this city appears in your map, only Isesaki, Takasaki……
This town is steeped in absurdity.
Mio and Yukko, whose athletic abilities defy human limits.
Shinonome-san, a high-spec robot indistinguishable from a real person. And the one behind her creation, Professor Shinonome, a genius scientist who is barely seven years old.
Then there's Tachibana-senpai, wielding guns and heavy artillery without so much as a legal restriction. And Sasahara-senpai, who brushes off such damage with inhuman resilience.
The same can be said for Igo Soccer. Part Go, part soccer; no mortal being could master such a sport……
───That's because this town is a sandbox.
A grand scale sandbox where the world's "anomalies", the bizarre, the dangerous, the things that could tip society into chaos, have been isolated, cut away from everyday life.
And presiding over it all is the Daiku Conglomerate.
Every shop, every building, every train and bus route, they all fall under Daiku's control.
That is no coincidence. And it's certainly not unrelated.
……Because Daiku is the one that built this. They're its architects. Its wardens.
Your arrival wasn't by chance. I'm sure Daiku has a reason for guiding you to this place.
That train you rode on the Toubu Isesaki Line, its timetable shouldn't have allowed it…… And yet, it brought you here.
……Welcome to Tokisadame, the grand sandbox… ──étrangers.
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