Horizon:GT2 Preface

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Kawakami Minoru:

Born on January 3, 1975. From Tokyo. Girls Talk is used to reveal elements from the past of Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon’s characters. Since the first one did well, here’s a second one featuring Honda Masazumi. You can look forward to a third and fourth one too!

Satoyasu:

Born in Yamagata and raised in Tochigi. “Beech mushrooms are delicious. Mushrooms are cost effective too.” That’s too tame to have a good retort for, Sensei.

Morning Kitchen

Masazumi didn’t dislike cooking. She had often helped out back home when her mother was still around and she had taught herself how to cook through practice. So she could cook and she could get by as long as she had the ingredients. But one major problem got in her way.

“Don’t you hate how eating every single day doesn’t leave enough money for books?”

She tried that as a conversation starter while the girls were cooking one morning at the forest training camp. The others exchanged a glance in the morning sun and the gold and black winged ones began whispering to each other.

“Hey! Naruze! What are you whispering to Naito!?”

“Did you hear that, Margot? You insult her behind her back and she starts restricting your freedom of speech.”

“S-so you were insulting me! I knew it! Even if I didn’t actually hear it!”

“Calm down,” said Asama, holding out her palms and taking a breath. “Um, we have evolved beyond the days when a woman had to know how to cook and was considered a failure of a human being if she couldn’t, so you really don’t have anything to worry about, Masazumi.”

“Heh heh. But isn’t that part of the reason you moved in with us?”

“Asama-sama suffers a one-hit KO!” shouted Horizon. “Oh, and I appreciate everything you do for us.”

Asama froze in place after more or less self-destructing. As for Masazumi…

“Given Asama’s position, I feel like anything she cooks is automatically valuable to an extent.”

“Maybe, Vice President, but wouldn’t that be even more true of the Chancellor?” asked Balfette.

“Would it?” she replied and everyone nodded. Naito and Naruze explained.

“People will forgive most anything he does if he brings them some of his cooking.”

“That’s not how amnesty is supposed to work. …Mitotsudaira, do you have a specialty dish you make?”

“Eh? Yes, I am great at yakiniku. And during the summer, I like making cold shabu-shabu.”

I’m not sure that counts as cooking, thought Masazumi, but she decided not to worry about it after seeing Futayo frying up some raw vegetables. Then the Tachibana Wife asked her a question while pouring some water.

“Could it be you are simply too busy to notice the everyday enjoyment around you?”

“My. Lady Gin, does that mean you find an everyday enjoyment in being around Master Muneshige?”

Mary’s comment made Gin freeze. This is a lot like a shogi configuration, thought Masazumi.

“Why not hire a secretary or something?” asked the Date Vice Chancellor.

“Remember how this started with me not having enough money?”

“C-could you get…someone from…one of the committees?” asked Mukai.

I could think about it, thought Masazumi while Naruze opened a Magie Figur.

Art-Ga: “Hey, Representative Committee Head? After partying last night at our forest training camp, sleeping for 8 hours, and lazily bathing in the morning sun, Masazumi just said she’s so busy she wants a secretary.”

Nagaya-Stable: “Find a roundabout way to tell her to die.”

“I don’t think that’s happening,” said Naruze with a smile and a raised right hand. In other words…

“Well, if there are this many barriers in the way, I guess the world is telling me I don’t have to cook or even eat all that much. If only my jampacked schedule left me time to pack some jam to eat. …Hey, if you don’t laugh at that, what are you ever going to laugh at?”

Everyone exchanged a glance and began whispering to each other, but she wasn’t sure what about that would make them insult her behind her back.

Title Page

Genesis Series

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon

Girls Talk

Festival and Dream

–Are you ready?

Kawakami Minoru

Illustrations: Satoyasu (Tenky)

Pamphlet Page

[First, everything behind the text boxes]

Title: Musashi Immigration Management Process

Purple Line: The following process is used for Musashi arrivals

At your old home – Please complete the immigration process back at your old home. *Failure to follow the legal process is punishable by a local product (ether version) being shoved up your butt, so do be careful.

Upon arrival – Please follow the instructions given at the Musashi immigration reception desk. *Failure to follow the legal process is punishable by an in-season Musashi product (ether version) being shoved up your butt, so do be careful. Bamboo shoots and butterburs are in season now.

On the Musashi – Once the process is complete, you are free to live however you like. *Any illegal actions are generally punishable by something shoved up the butt or urethra, so please turn yourself in immediately.

Purple circle: Welcome!

Bottom: Supported by the Asama Shrine

[Now, the text boxes]

Horizon: Um, everyone, look at this pamphlet I found while letting my instincts drive my searching habits.

Mary: Oh, a guide to Musashi immigration. Is it from last year? Look how much smaller Ladies Asama and Mitotsudaira are.

Adele: Wh-what? Asama isn’t small there at all! Please wake up!

Masazumi: Why am I only seeing this now!? And what is this obsession with shoving things up places?

Asama: Well, our god has a rather strong style…

Heidi: Noooo! Bad memories…rushing back!

Nate: Would this give anyone good memories?

Color Spreads

Table of Contents

Masazumi: The story this time is a record of around when I arrived on the Musashi. In fact, it’s specifically about that. A somewhat odd incident happened then and things went in an unthinkable direction, so I ended up losing confidence in myself and had to rethink some things. Hey, why do you all look so skeptical!? Well, I don’t know how useful this is, but let’s check it out.

World Description

Toori: Sis! Sis! I bet some people will start reading here, so can you introduce our world in a fantasy-ish way?

Kimi: Heh heh heh. Foolish brother, here are the main points.

Kimi: This world exists far into the future. Humanity went to space and had a blast there, but were nearly destroyed by war. That was a real bummer, so they went back to earth. The only livable area was the Far East (Japan) since the environment was more stable, so they tried to redo things there.

Kimi: But since the environment outside was too harsh, silly humanity ended up fighting territorial wars over the limited land of the Far East. They nearly wiped themselves out again, so they decided to create a roadmap for themselves instead of just doing whatever they wanted. They created a history book of the former Earth Age and called it the Testament. Everyone knew civilization could be restored if they followed that roadmap, so they decided to redo history in the Far East (Japan) using that. That made war and such externally managed by politics.

Toori: Did that work out?

Kimi: Not really. The Far Eastern group made a silly mistake that took away the other nations’ land, so the other nations got pissed and started ruling over the Far East. They chose to “educate” the Far East.

Kimi: That led to a world where Japan’s Warring States period and the rest of the world’s 17th Century history are both playing out in the Far East. Since we are being “educated”, the world’s main power is held by the students. It’s restrictive for the Far East, but our aerial city ship named Musashi travels around the Far East engaging in trade as an independent Far Eastern city. …Foolish Brother? Got anything to add?

Toori: Well, here in Musashi, we count as Matsudaira (Tokugawa), but we’re neutral. The rest of the world is fighting against P.A. Oda, which counts as the Oda clan. Also, this story will move back and forth between 3 years ago and the present.

Kimi: The Far East (Japan) has its different regions occupied by the world’s nations like this. Our Musashi travels along the national borders.

Map [More or less top to bottom, left to right]:

Hokkaido (New World)

Floating Island (England)

Tohoku (Siberian Undeveloped Region)

Chugoku Region (Mouri, Hexagone Française)

Hokuriku (Uesugi, Sviet Rus)

Shimonoseki (Oouchi, Ootomo, Tres España)

Setouchi (Aki, K.P.A. Italia)

Kinki (Hashiba, M.H.R.R.)

Kinki – Tokai (Oda, P.A. Oda)

Kantou (Takeda, Qing)

Kyushu (Shimazu, African Nations)

Shikoku (Undeveloped Continent)

Tokai, Kantou (Mikawa Matsudaira, Far East Musashi)

Tokai – Kantou (Houjou, Association of Indian States)

Words

[Top to bottom, zigzagging down]

History Recreation: We’re redoing history in this world, so every nation is required to recreate history. This can be done with war, politics, ingenuity, or whatever else

Name Inheritor: The historical figures necessary for the history recreation. Skilled personnel inherit those names and run their nations.

Chancellor’s Officers, Student Council: The Chancellor’s Officers are the nation’s military organization. The Student Council is the nation’s political organization. The Chancellor and the Student Council President run them like a bancho or a school VIP.

Religion: In the Far East, Shinto is the main religion, but the other nations follow others based on their infrastructure.

Tsihrc: Christianity. Includes a Catholic and Protestant version.

Mlasi: Islam.

There are others, like magic, but they can wait until later.

The Current Stage: The current stage is Totomi. That’s the area known as Shizuoka.

Map:

Upper right: Mt. Fuji

Left: Mikawa

Middle: Totomi

Right: The Musashi’s Course

Ley Lines, Ether: Hm, ley lines are those things from fantasy stories. Y’know, the power lines that run all around the world. And you can think of ether as the MP or fuel extracted from the ley lines.

Musashi: The aerial ship we live on. There are 8 ships in all and each one has a name.

Diagram [top to bottom, left to right]:

1st Starboard Ship: Shinagawa

2nd Starboard Ship: Tama

3rd Starboard Ship: Takao

1st Middle Ship: Musashino

2nd Middle Ship: Okutama

1st Port Ship: Asakusa

2nd Port Ship: Murayama

3rd Port Ship: Oume

Characters

• Aoi Kimi (Wise Sister): Toori’s older sister and worshipper of the god of eroticism and dancing. Fundamentally high-tension and selfish in practice.
• Aoi Toori (Me): Protagonist. Musashi Ariadust Academy’s chancellor and student council president. Mr. Impossible.
• Asama Tomo (Asama): Daughter of the Asama Shrine, Musashi’s main shrine. Childhood friend and overall victim of Toori and Kimi, but has removed her lid recently.
• Adele Balfette (Flat Vassal): From a vassal family that arrived from France. Glasses girl. “Shield” used to be her only special attack, but she has recently added “charge” to the list.
• Itou Kenji (Obscene): Cheerful incubus. Nude, bald, and muscular. Known as Itoken.
• Ohiroshiki Ginji (Worshiper): Gourmet otaku with a Heart-sama style build.
• Kiyonari Urquiaga (Uqui): 2nd special duty officer. Flying half-dragon. Hopes to be an inquisitor. Known as Uqui.
• Shirojiro Bertoni (Money Lover): Treasurer. Young leading member of Musashi’s commerce and industry guild. Former udon god candidate.
• Tenzou Crossunite (10ZO): 1st special duty officer. Ninja and errand-runner who always covers his face with his hat. Busy whipping it out and making challenges.
• Toussaint Neshinbara (Novice): Secretary. Loves history, wants to be an author, and writes doujins.
• Naomasa (Smoking Girl): 6th special duty officer. Older sister type who works in the engine division. Smokes and laughs loudly.
• Nate Mitotsudaira (Silver Wolf): 5th special duty officer. Member of a knight family and inheritor of the Mito Matsudaira name. Half werewolf. Part of the Aoi household with Asama and Horizon.
• Nenji (Sticky King): Slime with about 3 HP. Manly.
• Noriki (Laborer): Laborer boy who supports his family. Clumsy martial artist. Silent and unsociable until marriage changed his personality.
• Heidi Augesvarer (Marube-ya): Treasurer’s aide. Shirojiro’s partner. Has a white fox named Erimaki. Former udon god candidate.
• Hassan Furubushi (83): Calpis logo-style Indian. Lives while eating and drinking only curry.
• Persona-kun (Bucket): Super macho man with a bucket helmet. Silent, strong, and kindhearted.
• Horizon Ariadust (Hori-ko): Toori’s childhood friend and current ruler of Mikawa. Currently an automaton. Her emotions were taken as parts for the Logismoi Oplo. Landlord.
• Honda Futayo (Tonbokiri): Former Mikawa student. Honda Tadakatsu’s daughter. Uses a strongly old-fashioned speech pattern.
• Honda Masazumi (Vice President): Vice president of the student council known as a lover of war. Diligent exchange student who arrived from Mikawa the previous year. Has various issues with her family.
• Marga Naruze (Mar-Ga): 4th special duty officer. Black-haired six-winged Weiss Hexen. Member of the manga club. Master of sports.
• Margot Naito (Gold Mar): 3rd special duty officer. Blonde-haired six-winged Schwarz Hexen. Always smiling. Tends to get the tsukkomi ball rolling.
• Mukai Suzu (Bell): Blind but always gives it her all. Acts as everyone’s stopper.
• Tachibana Muneshige (Tachibana Husband): Former Tres España 1st special duty officer. Amore. Currently working to regain his inherited name.
• Tachibana Gin (Tachibana Wife): Former Tres España 3rd special duty officer. Muneshige’s wife and possessor of cannon-style false arms. Fifty times.
• Mary Stuart (Scarred): Half-sister of English Queen Elizabeth. Well-endowed blonde. Living with Tenzou as his future wife. Owner of Ex. Collbrande.
• Satomi Yoshiyasu (Righteousness): Satomi Academy’s student council president. Small but does not cry. Uses the god of war Righteousness.
• Date Shigezane [Narumi] (Unturning): Masamune’s cousin. Vice chancellor of the Date clan and uses a mobile shell named Unturning Centipede. Confident elder sister type.
• Sakai Tadatsugu (Demoted Man): Musashi Ariadust Academy’s president. Used to be a very able person but was demoted.
• “Musashi” (Musashi): Automaton that supervises the Musashi and overall commander. Her sharp comments are hard to put up with.

Kimi: This story is mostly reminiscing about a year ago, so the people who weren’t yet with us then are marked with a star. Their divine chat names are given in parentheses.

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