== Prologue ==

From the top of the mountain to its roots, there was to be seen only a featureless, barren wilderness.

An arid wind gusted across it; nowhere was there to be found even the smallest puff of spring air. Under a thousand years of assault from the scorching wind, the plants have ceased to remember to grow upright. The insects here came in two varieties: one having evolved to being more hard, more heavy; and the other having become more small, more many; each by its own means eking out a living in this harsh landscape. Only the lizards could bask languidly in the sun and continue to pass days of happiness.

Besides these, there was only sand and rock.

A car had been left here.

This box-shaped vehicle was the color of the blue of the skies and was as iridescent as a dragonfly. Having been abandoned here, it faced its headlamps to the west, corners drooping down just like eyes holding back tears.

In its line of sight stood two humans.

“It’s a car.”

Ai, small and young, pointed at the car and thus spoke.

“Yes, it is.”

Yuri, tall and older, nodded his head.

With an outstretched finger Ai wiped a line across the windscreen and, sighing admiringly, said:

“I only knew that you could sometimes pick up pretty rocks or fruits on mountains, but never imagined that, out here in the wilderness, you could actually pick up a car.”

“No, nor that it’d be as good as this…”

Yuri opened up the bonnet and answered as he appraised the contents. Ai, just like a child who liked getting in the way of adults’ work, peered at what he was doing from the side. She smelled metal, oil, and sourness, but of course did not understand a thing she saw.

“Will it move?”

“This car’s been modified in many places, but they did a very neat job of it—looks like even the keys are still here.”

Ai exhaled with her nose and kneeled before the headlamps.

“Were you abandoned?”

The car kept silent as if deeply unhappy.

“… Where did the owner of this car go?”

The car refused to respond, and so Ai got up and asked the question again. It was a woman’s voice who replied:

“It should be these two, no?”

Ai looked around the other side of the car and found Scar standing here, pointing at the ground with her shovel. There was a patch of earth there that was moister than the rest and looked to have been turned only hours ago; and two large pieces of rock had even been placed there like headstones.

The two looked one another in the eyes and, mutely, prayed for the dead.

…

“It really is mysterious.”

“Yeah.”

Ai raised her index finger and spoke.

“Who was it who buried these two?”

“A Grave Keeper, of course.”

So Scar said.

Ai raised a second finger.

“But, why here, in this sort of place? Why just put the car here and leave it?”

“Who can tell? I am not in charge of organizing the thoughts of humanity.”

The lines Scar used to avoid questions exemplified the manner of Grave Keepers, and made Ai sigh and turn to glance up at the man beside her.

“I think there’s got to be some purpose to it.”

With that, Yuri climbed without hesitation into the driver’s seat. Ai, seeing this, carefully raised herself into the seat beside his.

This was her first time riding in a car.

“They probably came here with a purpose as well; but, not having achieved it after all, ended up in rest the way they are now.”

Coughs and splutters issued from the engine as Yuri started up the car.

“The reason why they just left behind this car…”

The engine started up amid a thundering noise that seemed fit to shake the earth. The vibrations made Ai jump in shock and then cling to her seat.

“Should be because they didn’t need it any more.”

The entire car began to vibrate regularly.

As if deep in thought, Yuri folded his arms around the steering wheel and didn’t speak.

“… You’re not thinking of stealing it, are you?”

Ai creased her forehead, displeased.

“And I thought you’d have more common sense than this…”

“Well, normally I wouldn’t do this sort of thing; it’s just that this time… You know, my car was originally meant to be parked on this stretch too.”

The car vibrated some more.

“I’d driven that car for a long time and had kept it maintained well. When I got here and prepared to ascend the mountain, I abandoned the car without even removing the keys. You know why I did that?”

Ai already knew the reason for it but didn’t want to say it out loud, and so didn’t speak.

“It’s because I was about to go meet my death. Whenever I thought of this place I’d also wind up thinking about what to do with what I owned after dying. That was quite strange, really. That car was the only thing left that I owned, but I had no way of getting it back onto the road, and had hoped at least to leave it for others to use.”

And that’s why I left my car behind, the blue-eyed man added.

“It passes the tire check, and can leave at any time.”

Scar sat at the back. With her were rugs, teapots, kettles and the like, a whole pile of baffling objects stuffed together, by some baffling means, in an orderly chaos.

“… I wonder what wishes those two had when they were still alive.”

Ai tilted her head back to look and found the headstones to be out of her range of vision.

“Who knows… maybe they wanted to save the world.”

The adult thus mocked.

“Maybe. Then, as for me…”

The child nodded with complete seriousness.

“I will continue on their dream.”

And gripped her shovel tightly as she spoke.

“Oh?”

“Yes. So, oh, we can probably count as the rightful inheritors of this car.”

“I didn’t think you could be this flexible too.”

Yuri, wanting to get accustomed to the car first, slowly pushed the accelerator down and the car forward. Tires sending pebbles flying, the car found its way onto a structure that could just be seen as having once been a road.

West-bound, they advanced.

Ai looked northwards from her side seat.

Up in the north, there was a mountain; on the mountain there was a village. In the village were her home, her parents, and all the villagers she once adored. All of her past lay in that direction, north.

The two graves rested in this place that she had only just arrived at.

“Goodbye.”

Ai lowered her head for a long moment in that direction.

“Let’s go.”

So Scar said, smiling gently.

Yuri said nothing, and just stepped on the accelerator.

The man, the child, and the female Grave Keeper.

The three thus began their journey.

“Oh, right, what about this youth here?”

“Huh?!”

Emergency brake.

So actually, they were four.

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Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 2 Prologue

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Pygmalion: minor edit on prologue. going on to Chapter 1 in a while

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Sunday Without God (神さまのいない日曜日 Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyōbi) began as a light novel series written by Kimihito Irie, and illustrated by Shino. Irie entered the first novel in the series, originally titled Sunday People (日曜の人達 Nichiyō no Hitotachi), in Fujimi Shobo's 21st Fantasia Prize in 2009 and the novel won the Grand Prize. The first novel was published by Fujimi Shobo on January 20, 2010 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint, and eight volumes have been released as of July 20, 2013.

==Story Synopsis==

On Sunday, God abandoned the world, after admitting failure. Ai is the 12 year-old child of a Grave Keeper, and a man by the name Hampnie Hambart. Her mother told her that one day, her father would come to the village. One day, long after her mother has passed, a mysterious man claiming to be Hampnie Hambart massacres Ai's village, and requests that she bury the dead, as a Grave Keeper.

==Series Information==

*Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural
*Original Title: 神さまのいない日曜日
*Author: Kimihito Irie
*Illustrator: Shino
*Published Volumes: 8
*Series Status: Ongoing

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==Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi by Kimihito Irie==

===Volume 1===
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:*[[Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 1 Novel Ilustrations|Novel Ilustrations]]
:*[[Kami-sama_no_Inai_Nichiyoubi_Volume_1_Prologue|The People of Sunday]]
:*[[Kami-sama_no_Inai_Nichiyoubi_Volume_1_Chapter_1|For Those Who Love Legends]] '''(Incomplete)'''
:*Test Me, Birth and Honor
:*[[Kami-sama_no_Inai_Nichiyoubi_Volume_1_Afterword|Afterword]]
 

===Volume 2===
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:*Prologue
:*Urban and Juvenile
:*Dragons
:*Angels
:*Alone in SOlutide
:*Afterword

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==Series Overview==

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*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 1 (January 20, 2010) ISBN 978-4-8291-3477-1 
*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 2 (May 20, 2010) ISBN 978-4-8291-3521-1 
*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 3 (October 20, 2010) ISBN 978-4-8291-3579-2 
*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 4 (February 19, 2011) ISBN 978-4-8291-3612-6 
*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 5 (June 18, 2011) ISBN 978-4-8291-3649-2 
*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 6 (November 19, 2011) ISBN 978-4-8291-3699-7 
*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 7 (April 20, 2012) ISBN 978-4-8291-3738-3 
*Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi Volume 8 (July 20, 2013) ISBN 978-4-8291-3912-7 
 

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==Chapter 1: For Those Who Love Legends==
On Monday, God created the world.

God created “nothing” in a place where even the concept of nothing did not exist.

On Tuesday, God separated the order and the chaos.

God defined freedom and liberty, thus making a decision in which direction the world would travel in.

On Wednesday, God sorted the order of every number.

His tedious work brought about beautiful diversity.

On Thursday, God allowed for time to flow.

Numbers grew explosively, giving birth to the first humans. <ref>I think this is what it is telling me, although I don’t know.</ref>

On Friday, God looked at every corner of the Earth.

Over millions of years of search, God found this world to be ideal and had come to love it.

On Saturday, God rested.

Billions of years passed. <ref>This says billions of light years passed, at least I think it does… but that is a measure of distance and makes no sense</ref>

Then, on Sunday God abandoned the world.

Fifteen years ago, God suddenly appeared in front of humanity and told them:

“Heaven is too crowded with people and this world will come to its end very quickly. Ah, I’ve made a mistake.” <ref>"screwed up" is probably more accurate here… but I don’t really think God would say that.</ref>

God just left behind these words before vanishing into thin air.

However the humans only wanted to sing and rejoice for spring while nature around them trembled in fear. Though humans had only existed in this world for less than a million years, this was their first time meeting God, but God was certainly already saying farewell.

From that day onward, humans no longer died.

Even if their hearts stopped, and their bodies festered, the dead would continue on with their activities.

From that day onward, humans were not born.

It was as if the factory that made humans stopped production, never to make another human being.

Soon, in the time after God left the Earth, people began screaming and vomiting blood - living on the verge of death.

The number of living quickly and suddenly decreased; the whole world filled with corpses.

Eventually, the Grave Keepers appeared.

God sent the Grave Keepers to mankind as one last miracle.

Grave Keepers did grow old and nor did they know fatigue.

God gave them perfect bodies beyond man’s wildest imaginations. He instructed them to build tombs, and bury the dead that still wandered the world, to avoid disturbing people’s everyday lives. It was only after this, that people could peacefully sleep.

“To let the living sleep – that is the job of the Grave Keepers”

Youki has already repeated this bedside story hundreds of times and the ending goes like this: “Ai, you are a Grave Keeper; you need to protect everyone so they can sleep peacefully.” Every time, they would always arrive on this verse of the bed time story.

“Ai?”

But tonight they only reached this point.

The room filled with treasures.

Like Ai’s work, this room was handcrafted by the villagers. Everything in the room, including the bed, cabinets, study table, furniture embellishments and various other little things were all handcrafted. Things from a stuffed teddy bear to a new small shovel were all neatly arranged together in the room.
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