Earth Reference
Compact writer-facing reference for the modern Earth sequel. It combines the useful functions previously served by world, map, and ecology files without attempting to catalogue real Earth.
Add a place, institution, technology, animal, plant, or environmental detail only when it has appeared in prose, is likely to recur, constrains continuity, or carries clear narrative purpose. Verify changeable real-world detail when a chapter depends on it; do not convert incidental research into canon.
Earth Continuity
- Thomas and Isha awaken in a subtly altered modern Earth after the Broken Court.
- Their legal identities, residence records, university history, finances, shared address, and road-accident account already exist, although they do not remember living that recorded history.
- The setting is ordinary modern Japan. No wider public magic, hidden fantasy society, supernatural ecology, or institutional knowledge of the fantasy world is established.
- Their Earth records are practical continuity, not proof that fabricated memories or relationships must be performed.
- Exact continuity mechanics, the extent of the world's alteration, and any relation between Earth and fantasy-world time remain unknown.
- Chapters 434-435, 437 and 439 occur in the fantasy world/Ian's external context and do not advance the protagonists' Earth date. The latest Earth scene is Friday 28 April 2028. Ian's house remains in his external reality, not Sendai or the protagonists' Earth.
Ch.424-432 Earth Continuity Additions
- The latest Earth date is Sunday evening, 23 April 2028. Chapters 430 and 431 are earlier Thursday/Friday scenes presented after Ch.424; do not treat chapter order as date order across this group.
- Isha completes the paid two-day Coach 1 course on 22-23 April. The venue remains unnamed; no new management role, weekly-hours change or automatic next qualification follows.
- Kanno's current Mercury work exists as physical proof prints as well as digital files. Eight initial working proofs become three provisional survivors; no public title, exhibition, final sequence or provenance solution is established.
- The Mercury and Mars tickets remain intact in private storage. Reuse remains untested. Kanno may want to revisit Mercury but has not asked Ian or attempted activation.
- Flat 202 temporarily holds ten unused Ian-made missive sheets and a conspicuously fine fountain pen after Isha/Kanno use two sheets to contact Aelira and Lethira. These are external-mechanism objects, not Hero-System correspondence pages. Their longer-term storage/use beyond the proposed meeting is unresolved.
- Isha, Kanno, Aelira and Lethira have independently agreed in principle to one small neutral meeting with trees, walking space and no camera. The construct does not yet exist, no date is fixed, and Thomas deliberately declines this first occasion. It is not a visit to Earth or the fantasy world.
- Earth and the fantasy world are separate inhabited worlds in the same underlying reality/universe. Ian's biological world/reality is outside both. The builder-gods have no route, perception or authority into Earth merely because Ian tells them it exists.
Ch.433-440 Earth Continuity Additions
- The latest Earth date is Friday evening, 28 April 2028. The Earth order is Monday 24 April (Ch.433), Tuesday-Wednesday 25-26 April (Ch.436), Thursday 27 April (Ch.438) and Friday 28 April (Ch.440). Fantasy-side intercuts establish no conversion.
- The Golden Acre Park meeting is social rather than ceremonial: paths, woodland, lake, benches, lawns, tea/coffee/scones and optional sandwiches; no camera, no notebook-as-interview, no other visitors and no standing route. It is based on a park near Ian's external home but belongs to neither lived world.
- Flat 202 retains a small stock of unused Ian-made missive sheets, returned correspondence and the conspicuously fine fountain pen after the 24 April scheduling exchange. The exact remaining unused count is not restated after additional sheets are sent to Aelira/Lethira. These remain external-mechanism objects, not Hero-System correspondence.
- Kanno resumes her ordinary wall/trace work after the meeting. A small commercial-building wall with a removed sign, four differently repaired holes and one newly repainted lower patch becomes a new possible frame without resolving the series.
- Kanno's Aelira work is a new private image body. Nine files return from Ch.438: six photographs of Aelira, one Aelira-made photograph of Kanno, one private shared timer frame and Aelira's chair photograph. Only one specified Aelira frame may be shown to Thomas/Isha. On 28 April Kanno makes a matte physical print of the requested formal portrait and stores it in an archival sleeve/box; no publication, exhibition, title or new appointment follows.
- Isha's Coach 1 qualification is now present in the climbing centre's training record. It changes which beginner blocks she may be assigned inside existing hours, not her employment category. Horie and Kameda book another beginner session for the following month without any promise that Isha will coach it.
- Thomas/Isha's ordinary Earth life continues around the external strand: working-group terminology remains with the owning offices when unresolved; Isha's paper hanging remains unfinished; Kanno's repaired umbrella and wall proof become the subject of an unplanned evening in 202.
Location Register
| Place | Status and continuity use |
|---|---|
| Sendai, Japan | Current city and principal Earth setting. Thomas has prior experience of Japan but not automatic knowledge of Sendai, its local systems, or every change since his original life. Use real geography accurately when relevant, but establish only locations that matter on page. |
| Hospital / emergency department | Thomas and Isha awaken here after the recorded road accident and a coma lasting several days. Ch.278 later returns Thomas by ambulance after more than five minutes without meaningful stable waking and fluctuating recognition. ECG, blood tests, neurological checks and non-contrast head CT find no acute cause; he is discharged after recovery with ordinary follow-up. The hospital's name, precise district, room number and recurring staff remain unestablished. |
| Residential district east of central Sendai | Broad location of their home. The neighbourhood mixes apartment buildings, tiled houses, utility poles, small gardens, compact parking, local shops, and practical public transport. Do not assign an exact district or address until the home station, river, university, and later GIS layout are chosen together. |
| Thomas and Isha's current flat (202) | Large rented Japanese-2F / GIS-level-1 corner home chosen after the Akiyama family moved out. It has a genkan and short hall, separate WC and wash/bath area, three bedrooms, an LDK whose kitchen and dining occupy the inner elbow, a quieter main bedroom, deep bedding storage, two exterior aspects and a long balcony that turns around the outer wall. Thomas uses one smaller room as an office; the other remains flexible for guests, storage, drying and camping equipment, with the floor and fully opening door protected as deliberate constraints. The refrigerator, sink and counter can operate without the old two-person conflict. Restoration before handover included damaged wall covering, partial kitchen-floor repair and replacement of the old air conditioner. Unit number 202 and its relative position are canon; surveyed dimensions, exact orientation and final furniture layout remain open. |
| Former flat (304) | Modest Japanese-3F / GIS-level-2 flat supplied with their recorded identities and occupied through Ch.237. Its compact kitchen, LDK, double bedroom and overloaded second room shaped early Earth domestic life. Thomas and Isha vacate, clean, document and return it after the Ch.238 same-building move; the tenancy has ended and it is no longer theirs. Preserve it as historical setting and an unassigned/vacant unit until future prose gives it another resident. |
| Nearby narrow river and cherry-lined path | Two streets from the flat. A regular walking route follows the engineered river for nearly a kilometre beneath cherry trees, with older stones, retaining walls, moss, weeds, swallows, bridges, benches, cyclists, children, and distant wooded hills. It is Isha's first recurring proof that Earth remains alive beneath its infrastructure. Ch.241 adds a small riverside recreation ground with a fenced ball court, exercise bars, benches and faded community markings at ten-metre intervals to an uncertified 100 m line; Isha's informal 12.94-second standing-start run there is not directly comparable with the municipal-track result. Exact river and recreation-ground identities remain unestablished. |
| Nearby convenience store | Walking-distance shop used during Isha's first shopping lessons. It establishes automatic doors, chilled shelves, hot cabinets, rapid clerk etiquette, cash, cards, and self-checkout. Chain and exact location remain unestablished; it may recur for small purchases, payments, deliveries, and language practice. |
| Local food shop / supermarket | By the third week Isha can shop here alone from a kana-marked list, buying vegetables, rice, fish, and the wrong kind of flour. It may or may not be the convenience store. Treat it as the main regular grocery location unless later prose distinguishes several shops. |
| Neighbourhood hardware shop | Found by Isha after a loose cupboard hinge evokes Kelda. Thomas and Isha buy suitable fittings and learn practical tool vocabulary. Useful recurring location for repairs, household competence, and Kelda-associated memories. Exact premises remain unestablished. |
| Sendai Station | Main rail hub used for travel beyond their neighbourhood and the natural transfer point for the first countryside trip. In Ch.226 two intoxicated men harass and grab Isha in a public station area; she moves toward staff/cameras, uses controlled redirection without striking and makes a formal complaint. Footage, two civilian witnesses and police photographs support her account. By Ch.236 the man who grabbed her admits it after seeing the footage and receives a fine through summary procedure; the second man is not separately charged, and both are instructed not to contact her. The exact home-to-station route remains open until their local station or bus connection is fixed. |
| Oku-Nikkawa Station and lower ravine trail | Canon destination of Thomas and Isha's first train trip beyond denser Sendai. Reached from Sendai on the JR Senzan Line. They leave at the quiet mountain station and follow a maintained lower route through cedar, pine, and mixed deciduous woodland, crossing a stream by a small bridge before returning the same day. Exact trail branch remains flexible; recheck real access conditions when revisiting it in prose. |
| University and campus | Their records show them as recent graduates of the same university. The institution anchors Matsuda, their former seminar adviser, archery and climbing contacts, qualifications, and possible work or social return. Name, departments, degrees, and full campus layout remain unestablished. |
| Library-side three-cherry-tree bench | Campus micro-location shown in an inherited graduation-era photograph. Thomas and Isha find the same bench and take their first genuine Earth photograph there. It is a strong recurring site for distinguishing supplied continuity from lived memory. |
| University international-support office | Thomas's workplace from Ch.221 and initial posting after becoming regular administrative staff on 1 June 2027. Ch.350-354 add the late-summer four-date arrival pilot: entry into Japan, first university contact, enrolment completion and local address remain separately owned milestones, with a shared exception view rather than one international-support master date. Thomas coordinates but does not enter another office's date merely because it emails him. The pilot functions while he is absent at regular-staff induction. Mori, Endo and Sugiyama remain established staff; the university name and exact building remain unassigned. |
| Campus gym / athletics building | University facility used by Thomas during weekday lunch periods from before Ch.231. It is near his office building and set behind a larger athletics hall; Thomas and Isha reach the campus area from home in less than roughly twenty minutes by the route used in Ch.231. Contains maintained cardio machines, resistance machines, dumbbells, benches, squat racks with safeties, barbell platforms, trap bars, cable stations, pull-up frame and a marked 30 m carry strip. Staff recognise Thomas as a regular. Ch.244 establishes card-controlled reduced-year-end access from 05:00 before the staffed desk begins at 07:00; the weight area can be empty during that interval, but this is not a standing claim about all future opening hours. It supports Thomas's technically careful novice routine and Isha's one private progressive strength assessment; exact campus and facility name remain unassigned. |
| Follow-up clinic / physiotherapy practice | Recurring medical setting during early recovery. Staff document Isha's exceptional but human balance, grip, reactions and endurance. The bicycle-and-child incident occurs outside after an appointment. After the Ch.278 event a clinic reviews the hospital record, finds a normal examination, permits ordinary work if symptoms do not recur and arranges non-urgent neurology review. Name and exact location remain unestablished. |
| Endocrinology clinic / laboratory | Late-November through February setting for Isha's Graves-like diagnosis, blood tests, ultrasound, dose changes and remission monitoring. It records mild diffuse enlargement, positive TRAb and elevated thyroid hormones, then an unusually rapid but medically plausible normalisation. By Ch.323-325 the gland has normal size/vascularity, antibodies are undetectable and thiamazole is stopped; a later off-medication test remains normal. No staff member suspects the System. Name, district and recurring clinician name remain unestablished. |
| Kyūdō dōjō | Traditional Japanese archery setting introduced in Ch.305 under Fujisaki Tomoko. It includes makiwara work, borrowed yumi, formal entry and group shooting at twenty-eight metres. Isha's prior archery accelerates safe handling and accuracy, but the eight stages, timing and group line remain distinct study. Exact club, district and governing association remain unassigned. |
| Small craft gallery / civic exhibition rooms | Thomas buys Isha's birthday sculpture Fold No. 6 from a small gallery. Ch.315 later uses a municipal craft exhibition of glass, lacquer, textiles and ceramics as a deliberately pleasurable outing. Exact artists, gallery and exhibition building remain unestablished. |
| Book market / small-press venues | Thomas and Kanno's earlier book-market day strengthens their direct friendship. On 24 July 2027, Kanno takes twelve copies of Until Replaced to a civic-hall small-press event with rows of half/full tables, zines, photo books and handmade publications; Isha briefly translates for an English buyer who later proves to be Ian. The exact book-market and civic-hall venues may be distinct and remain unassigned. |
| Small Works Weekend / municipal exhibition rooms | Completed Saturday, 25 March 2028. Six regional makers share tables and short wall sections in municipal exhibition rooms west of Sendai Station. Kanno shows Until Replaced plus three existing photographs from that work, joins the optional maker conversation, sells several copies and leaves the unfinished wall/trace series unresolved. Female coordinator Okabe manages setup/break cover and is distinct from alumnus Okabe Jun. Exact venue/business identity remains unassigned. |
| Small paper / bookbinding shop west of central Sendai | Ch.353 destination for Isha's deliberately unnecessary paper errand while developing her second hanging. Sells decorative papers individually, including imported/Japanese sheets and bookbinding materials. Exact business and district remain unassigned. |
| Unnamed central/western Sendai hotel used by Ian | Medium-sized ordinary hotel encountered by Isha on 12 August 2027. Ian says he is staying there while visiting Japan for work. The hotel is demonstrably operating on 12 August, then closes on 21 August-10 September 2027 for scheduled facility renovation/building-services/lobby/equipment work, with reopening planned 11 September. Isha feels no unusual “weight” when she deliberately walks past the closed building without Ian present. The hotel is not a supernatural site and Ian's later location is not investigated. |
| Ian's external-world house, study and garden | Ian states that his real-world home is in Otley, West Yorkshire, England, in his own external reality rather than the protagonists' Earth. Kelda, Lethira and Aelira inspect the study through a Ch.371 threshold without crossing. In Ch.423 Lethira receives three actual photographic prints made by Ian. The first, explicitly five by seven inches, shows a lawn-and-tree garden bounded by tall hedges and a small black shed; Ian says a warehouse is hidden behind the tall hedge, although it is not visible. The second shows broad stone walls beneath a single-sloping roof, with its higher side facing the lawn, plus large windows and glazed doors; Lethira infers that the house may have been designed for the view or the sun. Ian identifies the second upper window from the right as his study. The third is a near-current view from that study. Exact address, plan and external-world date remain unestablished. The photograph described as “now” is Ian-local only and gives no conversion to Earth or fantasy-side time. |
| Ian's neutral café construct | Non-Earth meeting place first entered by Thomas/Isha through the flexible-room door on 18 December 2027 and later by Kanno alone on 8 January 2028. It resembles an ordinary quiet English café but has no established geographic world/location. Door access, concurrent Earth time and return destination are negotiated per meeting. It is Ian/external-mechanism infrastructure, not Homegate, the Hero System or a room physically added to 202. |
| Berlin — Kanno/Ian brief visit | Ch.385 takes Kanno from the neutral café to real Berlin in the same Earth as Sendai for roughly thirty minutes, with Ian physically accompanying her after explicit consent. Ordinary people, weather, traffic and imperfect photographic conditions remain. Kanno photographs traces of the former Wall rather than a staged tourist view. The trip does not establish normal immigration/transport capability for the cast or standing permission for Ian to enter Earth. |
| Venus — Venera 14 site | Ch.394 takes Kanno through an Ian-made doorway from her own flat to the actual Venera 14 landing site after she explicitly sets conditions. The lander/site are not moved, repaired, relit or beautified; Kanno uses her own unchanged camera, perceives the real Venus environment as far as Ian can make safe, remains physically unharmed and leaves no lasting footprints/fingerprints/fibres/biology. She makes twenty-seven frames; Ian makes three consented photographs of her with the same camera. The doorway later returns Kanno directly to 202 while Ian remains on the Venus side. This is external-mechanism travel, not Earth transport, Homegate or Hero-System passage. |
| Mars — Olympus Mons first survey | On 27 February 2028, Thomas, Isha and Kanno travel with Ian to the real Olympus Mons after Isha accepts a first-look survey under a bounded safety model. Real Mars gravity/terrain and ordinary fatigue, soreness, blisters and non-catastrophic consequences remain meaningful while catastrophic injury/death is prevented; ordinary discomfort is not automatically healed. Isha learns self-directed flight, surveys from the air and carries Thomas during part of the flight. Kanno makes actual camera files and permits Ian to make photographs with her camera; those Ian-made frames are marked separately in her archive. No climbing route is selected and no climb occurs. Isha wants a longer second survey before deciding what, if anything, to climb. This visit is separate from the 16 April canyon-rim ticket trip. |
| Unnamed Sendai mineralogical/material-description firm | Ch.397-415 route for Isha's large gold-bearing quartz specimen after Matsuda's bounded referral help. Staff first review photographs, then geologist Morishita conducts a roughly ninety-minute non-destructive examination on 29 March 2028 using visual inspection, magnification and controlled photography. Optional XRF of darker exposed material is declined because it is unlikely to change the useful answer. The written report arrives 13 April and supports natural native gold in quartz with iron-bearing sulphide, repeated hydrothermal fracture filling/mineral deposition and possible later deformation/remobilisation; no locality/age/mine can be inferred. No further work is planned absent a new question. Exact firm name/address remain unestablished. |
| Mars — canyon-rim ticket visit | On 16 April 2028, Thomas and Isha use Ian's Mars ticket together. They experience real Martian terrain, reduced gravity and a vast canyon/rim landscape, take ordinary phone photographs and return to 202. Thomas considers Valles Marineris as a possibility, but the exact site is not canonically identified. This is explicitly not the future Olympus Mons climb. The physical ticket remains afterward; reuse is untested. |
| Mercury — Kanno ticket visit | On 16 April 2028, Kanno uses her separate Mercury ticket alone with one camera body and two lenses. She experiences hard light, black sky, reduced gravity and an unidentified cratered site, adapts her exposure/walking rather than receiving photographic correction, and returns to 202 with 41 new frames. Exact coordinates/site identity remain unestablished. The ticket remains physically present afterward; reuse is untested. |
| Small neutral meeting room / garden construct | Distinct from Ian's English café construct, the larger reunion café/garden and the later Golden Acre construct. Used for Kanno's 2 April meeting with Lethira, 19 April first meeting with Aelira and 27 April Aelira portrait session under fresh occasion-specific access and direct return. The camera session has separately negotiated recording permissions; no prior route or consent remains standing. |
| Golden Acre Park neutral construct | Completed one-time setting for the 24 April Isha/Kanno/Aelira/Lethira afternoon. Ian bases it on Golden Acre Park near his external home: mature trees, paths, lake, smaller water arm, benches, lawns and picnic provision under deliberately perfect weather. No ordinary park users, dogs or birds appear. It belongs to neither inhabited world, closes after the last person leaves and grants no later access. |
| Wedding restaurant / private courtyard room | Unnamed small restaurant in a low modern building a little west of central Sendai. A private room faces a modest courtyard with wet/dry stone, shrubs and two young maples; the room itself works as the complete rain plan. Level entrance/side taxi access, same-level accessible toilet, close seating and a short room solve Saitō's access and the couple's no-long-aisle requirement. Thomas and Isha choose it after two visits, book Saturday 30 October 2027, hold their own short ceremony there and eat at one long table with seven guests. The manager supplies sequence/logistics rather than an officiating religion or legal function. Nagai photographs the wedding. Exact business name/street remain unassigned. |
| Sendai ward-office family-register counter | Exact ward and office name remain unassigned. Thomas and Isha use advance document review after their Tokyo marital-status appointments, then file the marriage notification during staffed hours on 15 October 2027. Kanno and Matsuda are the two adult witnesses. The notification is accepted that day and they request an ordinary Certificate of Acceptance/acceptance record. Keep future references at the level established in prose unless a specific ward is deliberately canonised. |
| British Embassy, Tokyo — marital-status appointments | Thomas and Isha travel to Tokyo on 13 October 2027 for separate appointments tied to the British freedom-to-marry documentation required for their Sendai filing. The trip is procedural and ordinary; Matsuda meets them for lunch and signs the second witness box on the Japanese notification. Do not invent a special diplomatic relationship or recurring embassy contact. |
| Kameido and Shin-Kiba present-day route | During Thomas's twenty-fourth-birthday Tokyo weekend, he and Isha walk present-day streets associated broadly with Daniel Mercer's life. They do not locate his former flat, identify a verified death site or search his name. The route remains a restrained first-life side story inside a current visit to Matsuda. |
| Road-accident crossing | Official site of the compact car's rain-related skid onto the pavement. Exact location, driver, responsibility, witnesses, and investigative history remain unestablished and should not be invented unless the story returns to them. |
| Modern target-archery ranges | Kuroda first helps Isha return to modern archery at a quiet club range using a light bow. Ch.321/326 add a municipal indoor range inside a larger sports hall, supervised by Nakahara, where Thomas begins on sixteen- and eighteen-pound recurves at ten metres; by July he is shooting ordinary beginner ends at eighteen metres. The venues may be distinct; exact names and governing bodies remain unassigned. |
| Municipal sports centre / judo dojo | Historical adult-beginner judo venue for Thomas and Isha. Nakamura led fundamentals; Isha also attended supervised intermediate work. Thomas formally leaves in Ch.298 after recognising that the routine mattered more than the activity, and Isha's later calendar no longer includes judo. Either may return only under ordinary beginner/specialist terms. Exact centre and district remain unnamed. |
| Miyagino-area mixed martial arts gym | Second-floor gym above a bicycle-parts shop, introduced in Ch.260 after Abe refers Isha to Shibata Kenji. It has a matted room, heavy bags, padded wall, short chain-link section, reception/equipment area and beginner/intermediate sessions. Isha attends mixed and grappling work; Thomas does not train there. Morita Ayaka's candid candidate review occurs in the small office. The later novice bout is held at a separate modest local sports hall under ordinary officials, medical checks and corner procedure. After remission Isha returns to controlled pads, clinch and positional ground work but not hard sparring or immediate bout preparation. Exact gym, event-hall and affiliation names remain unestablished. |
| Climbing centre | Isha's workplace after a successful interview and supervised training. She is an indefinite short-hours regular employee, guaranteed three shifts / twenty-four prescribed hours weekly, with instruction/safety responsibility and First Aid Provider certification. She completes Coach 1 on 22-23 April 2028. Ch.436 gives her a first forty-five-minute beginner block with Yoshida nearby for floor coverage; Ch.440 shows ordinary follow-up work with Horie, Kameda, Nishimura and Sakai. The qualification broadens assignable beginner coaching inside existing hours without creating management, medicine, a fourth day or automatic progression. Exact brand, district and route remain unassigned. |
| Municipal athletics track | Community track used with Hasegawa for electronically timed adult sessions. Isha records 12.72 seconds in Ch.223 and, after medical remission and improved start mechanics, 12.38 seconds with legal wind in Ch.324. One maximal run answers the question; the result does not make her a committed sprinter. Exact facility remains unnamed. |
| Nobiru Station and former-station memorial | Current station stands on higher ground after post-disaster railway relocation. Thomas and Isha visit the preserved former platform and memorial museum, where maps, testimony, images and damaged objects record the 2011 earthquake/tsunami and rebuilding without implying restoration of the unsafe route. |
| Miyato Island / Oku-Matsushima | Setting of their first one-night leisure trip after beginning work and, on 6-7 November 2027, their one-night honeymoon return after the wedding. An inhabited coastal landscape of settlements, fishing equipment, fields, wooded slopes, sheltered bays and open-Pacific views rather than a resort-only backdrop. The November return is intentionally not a reenactment: colder weather, no swim, shorter daylight, harvest-bare fields and a deliberately shorter walking route. |
| Aomina Visitor Center and Oku-Matsushima trail | Trailhead and practical visitor anchor for the roughly 10 km route used in Ch.222. Staff provide water and route advice; the walk links temple, museum, Satohama historical ground, inner bay, Tsukihama, forest and Otakamori. |
| Satohama Jōmon museum / shell mound | Museum and historical landscape showing long habitation through pottery, bone tools, fishing equipment, reconstructed dwellings and accumulated shell-mound layers. It prompts reflection on ordinary life becoming evidence without being created for remembrance. |
| Hatsutsuura and reclaimed/coastal fields | Sheltered inner-water section of the Miyato route, with boats, heron, managed banks, fields and drainage. Reinforces land as maintained agreement with water rather than untouched possession. |
| Tsukihama Beach | Sheltered beach near the minshuku. Thomas and Isha first arrive at sunset in Ch.221, then return during supervised hours in Ch.222 for their first Earth sea swim together. It is pleasure and trust, not a beach-resort or danger spectacle. |
| Otakamori | 105.8 m viewpoint overlooking Matsushima Bay, wooded islands, settlements and the Pacific. A stranger takes the couple's first genuine shared summit photograph on the initial summer trip. On 7 November 2027 they return in sharper autumn light and ask another stranger for new photographs, including one close echo of the old pose and one with Isha kissing Thomas's cheek. The July and November images sit beside each other in the shared album without either replacing the other. |
| Miyato minshuku | Unnamed practical two-storey lodging near Tsukihama, run in part by Sakamoto. Tatami room, reservable bathing, local seafood meals, trail advice and luggage transfer support the first one-night trip and the 6-7 November 2027 honeymoon return. Thomas quietly requests the same room if available and Sakamoto gives them that familiar room; breakfast is moved to 08:00, she supplies practical autumn-route warnings, luggage help and small congratulations sweets/dish. Do not assign a real business name unless deliberately researched and canonised. |
| Unnamed Sendai-area museum / bow display | Ch.277 setting for a bounded historical-bow exhibit. Isha understands recent-to-her principles of wood, draw, balance and construction but does not possess specialist knowledge of ancient Earth bows. The exact museum and collection remain unassigned. |
| Unnamed Sendai-area aquarium | Ch.280 evening setting with local fish, moray eel, giant isopod, sea angel, jellyfish, octopus and a large central tank. The late opening gives Thomas and Isha a low-exertion public outing after hospital recovery. Isha buys a small red octopus key ring; exact aquarium name remains unassigned unless later prose fixes it. |
| Sendai Station shopping arcade / purikura booths | Kanno takes Thomas and Isha to a purikura booth after the aquarium/hospital week. Filters enlarge eyes, narrow faces and add fantasy ears/horns; a later unfiltered photograph at 202 supersedes the booth image as the clearest three-person record without erasing the comedy. Exact floor and booth brand remain unestablished. |
| Unnamed tattoo studio | Private studio where Nagase consults and tattoos Isha's inner left upper arm in Ch.284. It has a private working room, padded arm support, mirror, sterile single-use equipment and ordinary aftercare procedure. Exact business name and district remain unestablished. |
| Central Sendai Tanabata arcades | Ch.289 final-afternoon setting in early August: covered shopping arcades filled with low paper streamers, food stalls, seven traditional ornament displays and a public tanzaku wish station. Isha's height repeatedly meets the hanging paper. She wishes to learn to make something beautiful no one needs; Kanno wishes for one client-free Saturday each month; Thomas wishes to stop reviewing every judo throw before standing. |
| Sendai Airport / Incheon International Airport / Da Nang International Airport | Flight chain used for the short Ch.267-270 Vietnam holiday. Return travel is Da Nang to Incheon to Sendai. Ordinary check-in, border, weather, gate-change and customs procedure apply; no police restriction is placed on the couple. |
| Unnamed primary hotel — Da Nang, near My Khe Beach | Furnished base for the Vietnam holiday. Distinguish it from incidental bars or transit spaces. It supports ordinary rest, clothing repair, packing and recovery after the street incident; exact business name remains unassigned. |
| Marble Mountains, Da Nang | Hot stone, stairs, cave/temple spaces and climbing/walking during the holiday. When no one is close, Thomas uses Lv.4 Cleanse to remove sweat and cool Isha's overheated back/spine by a modest amount, briefly disrupting her composure. Use ordinary heat, tourist access and footing constraints. |
| Hoi An | Day/evening excursion for food, streets and ceramics. Thomas and Isha buy small ceramic cups, including the later green cup whose rocking is an ordinary balance/footing issue rather than magic. Keep the trip grounded in ordinary visitor movement rather than exoticised danger. |
| Unnamed quiet bar and camera-poor lane — Da Nang, outside the main tourist flow | Final-night confrontation setting. Two men harass the couple in the bar, one attempts to punch Thomas and both follow them into a lane without useful cameras. Isha disables them with controlled force; police arrive afterward. The lane is not a recurring criminal location and creates no organised-crime plot. |
| Hobart / Freycinet Peninsula / Wineglass Bay, Tasmania | Ch.247-250 eight-day international trip using supplied British/Icelandic identity documents, flights through Tokyo and Australia, a supported multi-day Freycinet walk, Coles Bay recovery, Bonorong wildlife visit and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Thomas and Isha return to Sendai afterward; this is a completed travel setting, not a new base. Preserve ordinary border, flight, weather, injury and pack-weight constraints if referenced. |
| Matsuda's Tokyo company flat | Furnished temporary home for his written eighteen-month transfer beginning after Golden Week. It is in Shinagawa, roughly fifteen minutes from his office under optimistic interchange assumptions, with one induction ring, narrow counter, small sofa, folding chair and balcony rules. The plant, old mug, good knife and selected photographs travel with him. Exact building and office remain unestablished. |
Home Building: Canonical GIS/CAD Register
This section is the durable source for modelling the apartment building through Ch.440; no later chapter through that point changes the Ch.359 structural register. Use GIS level 0 = Japanese 1F (ground/entrance level). Apartment numbers follow Japanese floor numbering: 1xx on 1F, 2xx on 2F, etc. Function rooms are normally labelled by use rather than as 00x rooms.
Massing and circulation
- The building has exactly four above-ground storeys in total: Japanese 1F-4F / GIS levels 0-3, established by occupied units 102/105, 202-204, 304-306 and 401. There is no 5F, no GIS level 4, no 5xx apartment range and no habitable fifth-floor volume. A roof, parapet, rooftop plant, lift overrun or stair headhouse may be modelled only as non-storey service geometry. No basement is canonised.
- The ground floor is a larger rectangular mixed-use podium. Floors 2-4 form a shallow L-shaped residential block around a sheltered inner court. Exact dimensions, orientation to north and wing lengths remain estimated until surveyed in GIS/CAD.
- One lift and an internal stair core serve all floors. An exterior/emergency stair at the remote end of the residential wing connects the landings and balconies; Mugi uses this route and gaps beneath balcony dividers.
- Balconies run along exterior residential faces. Access corridors/landings lie on the opposite or court-facing side as required by the final plan. Preserve two exterior aspects for the deeper corner flat 202.
- The ground podium contains automatic entrance doors/vestibule, lobby, intercom, mailboxes with a built-in bench nearby, residents' meeting room, emergency-supply storage, a low store beside the bicycle area, electrical/meter and communications rooms, water-pump/service space, fire equipment, cleaning storage, separate refuse/recycling access and covered bicycle parking. The meeting room lies near the entrance and inner court, is rectangular, has windows on two sides, includes a raised storage platform and has an emergency cupboard occupying most of one wall behind sliding doors. A service corridor runs behind or beside the lift. A central communal boiler is not established; individual on-demand water heating and split heat-pump units are the safer default until prose fixes services.
- The refuse room should open directly to an exterior collection route rather than through the lobby. The recycling store/access is distinct enough to receive flattened boxes during maintenance. The meeting room can be ventilated for cassette-stove emergency use. A resident-accessible communal roof-garden/terrace has a swept path, movable planters, covered folding tables/chairs, parapet and drainage grilles. Ch.259 confirms reinforced-concrete primary structure, sloped material guiding water, bonded waterproof layers beneath protected walking surfaces, planters on separate supports, low-point grilles and internal drainpipes. A parapet-edge seal can fail locally without the main slab failing; management arranges inspection/repair and residents report standing water, stains or damage rather than lifting surfaces or using sharp tools. Exact CAD level, extent and access route remain design work. No resident caretaker, caretaker flat or permanent on-site management office is established; during the outage a manager came from another property.
Floor and occupancy schedule
| GIS level | Japanese floor | Established residential units and inhabitants | Common/non-residential programme | Unallocated / modelling notes |
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| 0 | 1F | 102: unnamed resident couple. 105: Yoshimura, female, residents' committee organiser. | Main entrance, mailboxes, lift/stair core, meeting room, emergency store, service/electrical/comms/fire/cleaning rooms, waste/recycling access and covered bicycle parking. | 101 may be absent or absorbed by lobby/meeting space. 103-104 remain undefined. Ground floor may project 15-30% beyond the upper L for communal/service use; exact percentage is estimated. |
| 1 | 2F | 202: Thomas Albrecht and Isha Vaeloren in the large three-bedroom corner flat after the Akiyama family moves away. 203: Saitō Fumiko, older woman who uses a cane at times. 204: Miyake Natsumi, public-library worker and private book/album-repair hobbyist, resident for six years. | Lift/stair landing, corridor/gallery, risers, small fire/cleaning cupboard; access to exterior stair. | 201 may be absent or partly absorbed into the enlarged 202 footprint at the elbow of the L. 205-206 remain undefined. In 202, the genkan opens into a short hall: separate WC and wash/bath lie on one side and two smaller bedrooms on the other; the hall widens into an LDK with kitchen/dining at the inner elbow and living space extending along the second wing. A short passage reaches the quieter main bedroom and a deep bedding cupboard. The smallest room receives morning light. Two-aspect windows and a long balcony follow and turn around the outer wall behind a divider. Current use: main bedroom; one smaller room as Thomas's office; one deliberately flexible guest/storage/drying room. From the lower balcony, the meeting-room roof and bicycle shelter occupy more foreground than from 304. Flat 203 contains at least one old heavy low cabinet and family photograph albums; Ch.395-396 moves the cabinet to another wall without changing the flat plan. Flat 204 contains bookcases, a low worktable, cutting mat, board, brushes and a small book press; Miyake also uses removable photograph corners/interleaving/guarded or hinged pages in private album work. Exact plans remain unestablished. |
| 2 | 3F | 302: Fujii Masato, older retired science teacher, lives alone. 304: vacated former flat of Thomas and Isha; no current resident established. 305: Arakawa Shigeru, older widower and retired railway-maintenance worker. 306: Nakahara household—older husband using an oxygen concentrator and his wife; an adult daughter lives elsewhere and assists. | Lift/stair landing, corridor/gallery, risers and exterior-stair access. | 301 and 303 remain undefined. Earlier provisional placement of Fujii in 202 is rejected in favour of 302. Do not retain Thomas/Isha occupancy metadata in 304 after their handback. |
| 3 | 4F | 401: unnamed university student; sex, age, course and any co-residents remain unestablished. | Lift/stair landing, corridor/gallery, risers and exterior-stair access. | 402-406 remain undefined. Do not fill them merely to balance the plan. This is the building's highest occupied floor; do not create 5xx units or another residential floor above it. |
Modelling authority
- Occupants and unit numbers above are canon unless explicitly labelled estimated/unallocated. The four-storey height cap is also canon and overrides any temptation to continue the numbering pattern upward.
- The exact unit polygons, dimensions, façade orientation, parking count and site boundary remain design work. Fit the known rooms and circulation first, then allocate undefined flats without moving established residents.
- Flat 202 is intentionally larger than 304 and may consume roughly one and a half ordinary bays at the inner elbow; it was designed as one unit, not created by tenants knocking two flats together. It is the current protagonist home and should receive the most detailed interior model.
- Current 202 zoning must preserve the prose route: genkan/short hall; separate WC and wash/bath; two smaller rooms off the hall; widening into the LDK at the L elbow; short passage to the quieter main bedroom and deep cupboard; two-aspect exterior edge and turning balcony. Exact room polygons remain design work, but do not collapse it into a rectangular repeated 304 plan.
- Flat 304 remains useful historical geometry: genkan and compact circulation; separate wash/bath and toilet; double bedroom; multipurpose second room; compact kitchen/LDK and balcony. It is now vacant/unallocated and must not be tagged as Thomas and Isha's current residence.
- The Akiyama family has moved away. Thomas and Isha completed screening, negotiated the overlap/deposit treatment, accepted the restored flat, moved without professional movers and returned 304. Do not model simultaneous continuing occupancy merely because both units appear in earlier chapters.
Recurring Functional Settings
These remain categories until a specific place appears repeatedly or gains continuity value.
| Setting type | Narrative and continuity use |
|---|---|
| Local cafés, bakeries, and restaurants | Available for language practice, social meetings, food discovery, dates, and neighbourhood routine, but none is yet canonised as a regular establishment. |
| Unnamed central-Sendai cat-girl maid café | Themed café above a stationery shop visited by Thomas alone in Ch.225 during an unassigned afternoon. It has tasteful cat-ear/cat-tail performance, clear consent/photography boundaries, good tea and cake, and a loyalty card Isha keeps as a possible future option. Useful for comedy, performance-as-choice, Earth fantasy imagery and beast-folk memory resonance; do not turn it into a secret supernatural site or recurring harem/comedy engine. Exact name and location remain unestablished. |
| Local station or bus stop | The final neighbourhood GIS should provide a practical route to central Sendai and Sendai Station. Its identity remains open so the home district, river, and university can be chosen as one plausible spatial system. |
| Municipal, banking, and employment offices | Make the supplied identities usable through residence administration, accounts, tenancy, insurance, and job searching. Procedures should create ordinary friction rather than conspiracy. |
| Other sport and activity spaces | Additional pools, routes or clubs remain available, but established anchors are the campus gym, modern recurve ranges, kyūdō dōjō, former judo dojo, climbing centre, municipal athletics track and Shibata's MMA gym. Isha has completed two regulated novice MMA bouts: a second-round choke win over Morita Ayaka and, on 11 December 2027, a two-round decision loss to Naruse Kana. No third bout is established through Ch.440. |
| Accessible nature | Parks, wooded hills, riverside vegetation, coast, and mountain routes may become recurring places of rest and comparison without turning Earth into untouched wilderness. |
Home Continuity
- Flat 304 was the supplied home and is now historical/vacated continuity. Flat 202 is the current chosen home and remains the main Earth anchor.
- Flat 202 has hosted friends, letter preparation, disclosure, medical recovery, Cleanse testing, the wedding aftermath and multiple Ian-related boundary conversations without becoming a laboratory or secret headquarters. By Ch.440 20 outgoing pages and 19 returned pages are archived there; the last Earth-side exchange remains Ch.417. The 14 March receipt-only page carries the individual reunion answers; the 18 April simultaneous swap sends the post-reunion update and receives Kelda's independently prepared post-reunion report. The old timer/emergency sheet remain stored after three fully conscious, symptom-free Transfer 2.0 openings.
- Wedding continuity now includes Nagai's full edited gallery, delivered 27 November 2027. Thomas/Isha keep the complete digital archive/backups, a modest formal group print and selected couple/guest folders. A laughing courtyard frame is displayed in the LDK; the different courtyard frame sent through correspondence remains separately preserved.
- Current moved/retained ordinary possessions still include language/recovery files, work/gym/archery/camping equipment, the revived plant, second-hand desk, albums/portable photo printer, locked correspondence storage, Fold No. 6, Isha's paper-hanging materials, Mugi's saucer, wedding clothes/cards and the two engraved platinum bands.
- External/fantasy-side objects in 202 now extend beyond the Ch.357 set. Tessa's ash-marked arrow remains protected in the long rigid box; Thomas's childhood bird remains visible; Isha's old green ribbon remains with her ring case; Sereth's bowl/spoon remain in ordinary kitchen use; external photographs/messages remain private. Ch.372 adds the first fantasy-side chosen marriage album and selected moving records made by Kelda/Aelira/Sereth/Ruvan/Lethira with Ian's device. Ch.377 adds the exact-copy family album plus selected farm stills, three shared moving records and separate spoken messages from Mira/Rowan/Mara/Tessa; the original family album stays at the farm.
- Christmas Ch.381 adds three external gifts which were sent without asking first, producing an explicit correction of gift protocol. Kanno's gift is a photograph of Ian's real study wall and goes home with Kanno. Isha keeps a fine gold-coloured necklace containing an impossible miniature of the fantasy world; Ian states she cannot affect/break the world and that the object returns if lost/taken. Isha wears it by choice in ordinary life but removes it for climbing, MMA and kyūdō because an indestructible/uncertain chain creates snag risk. Thomas keeps a printed copy of the in-story historical planning artefact named
marriage_arc.md; no corresponding repository source is available. He and Isha read it specifically to understand how closely planning had constrained their lived choices, not as a new governing plan. - The nameless four-person Ian/Thomas/Isha/Kanno chat exists on their phones after Ch.378. It has no normal app identity and does not confer broader permission merely by being open. Screenshots/notes of important exchanges are private evidence.
- Ian's two physical planet tickets remain after the 16 April journeys: Mars is stored with Thomas/Isha's external material and Mercury returns to Kanno. Their survival after use is only an observation; it does not establish a second journey, recharge, or standing portal.
- Kanno's private camera archive now also contains 41 Mercury frames made by her on 16 April. Keep those distinct from her Venus files, Ian-made camera portraits and machine-generated/external images by provenance.
- Kanno's Venus material is held at her own home, not 202: twenty-seven actual Venera 14 photographs made by her camera, three photographs Ian made of Kanno with that same camera, and a separately sourced 100MP universe image kept under Ian provenance. Ch.395 also establishes a machine-generated approximation of Kanno beside Venera 14; she keeps/prints it separately from the actual camera files. Miyake is told only that Kanno has private photographs for which removable/protective physical treatment may matter; the Venus/Ian provenance is not disclosed.
- Current room use is provisional but bounded: main bedroom; Thomas's office; flexible guest/storage/drying room whose floor must remain visible and whose door must open fully. Avoid filling the larger flat immediately merely because space exists.
- The larger LDK permits Thomas and Isha to work beside one another without the refrigerator/sink conflict, supporting Thomas's cooking development while remaining an ordinary rented kitchen rather than a studio or professional workspace.
- Mugi may visit, sleep and use the balcony routes by choice. The pet clause does not make her their owned animal, and the home must not become a magical base, animal laboratory or convenient hidden facility.
- Do not invent valuable property, extra rooms, a private garden, dedicated gym, workshop or unusual technology. Emotional ownership comes from use and choice, not size.
Institutions and Material Baseline
Earth institutions interpret Thomas and Isha through ordinary explanations: accident, concussion, trauma, memory disturbance, foreign-resident paperwork, graduation and current employment. Thomas's regular university job and three-year work-status renewal, Isha's short-hours regular climbing job and one-year independent renewal, and their accepted 15 October 2027 civil marriage notification are ordinary administrative facts. Nothing currently gives officials reason to infer magic, another world or Ian. Kanno remains the deliberate private confidant, not an institution. Ian's neutral constructs, group chat, fantasy-side media and Berlin transport are external-narrative effects with no public administrative status.
Modern technology should be named normally in narration. Thomas broadly understands it; Isha does not initially, but learns tools quickly once their inputs, outputs, ownership, and risks are explained. Her unfamiliarity is most useful where technology intersects with culture, privacy, trust, etiquette, or hidden systems—not as repeated amazement at appliances.
Continuity-bearing systems include:
- identity and residence documents;
- medical, physiotherapy, insurance, and accident records;
- university qualifications and contacts;
- bank accounts, phones, digital accounts, and tenancy records;
- rail, bus, pedestrian, employment, and municipal systems.
Exact legal, transport, opening-hour, fare, or procedural claims should be checked when a chapter depends on them.
Relevant Natural Environment
Earth ecology matters only where it shapes setting, Isha's adjustment, seasonal continuity, or a scene.
Established or recurring elements:
- cherry blossom at the opening, followed by green leaves, the wet season, humid summer, early-August Tanabata, autumn colour and the first sustained December snow;
- a living river constrained by concrete banks and older stone;
- moss, weeds, swallows, sparrows, bees, street trees, rain, wind, and wooded hills;
- managed cedar, pine, and deciduous woodland around Oku-Nikkawa;
- Miyato Island's wooded slopes, sheltered bays, Pacific-facing shore, summer heat, cicadas, sand, seaweed and working coastal settlements;
- streams, coastlines and maintained paths that remain living places despite signs, bridges, rail, sea walls and human intervention;
- ordinary Japanese earthquakes and alerts. Ch.277 is Isha's first experienced earthquake; she initially does not know the category, then learns shelter, shelf, climbing-centre and home procedures without gaining retrospective Earth knowledge.
Do not create an encyclopaedic species list. Name a species only when identification affects the scene, recurs, reveals Isha's way of seeing, or needs continuity. Earth nature should neither be idealised as untouched nor dismissed as dead: it is altered, managed, fragmented, and still alive.
Authoring and GIS Guardrails
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Do not GIS-place or merge Ian's external-world home with the protagonists' Earth. Its photographs establish only the bounded visual facts above and remain separate in provenance from machine-generated approximations.
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Do not assign an exact home address, local station, river, university, hospital, supermarket chain, or shopfront until the local GIS layout is chosen. The unit change does not by itself identify the building or district.
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Choose the home district, river, station, university access, and recurring shops as one plausible spatial cluster rather than independently.
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Real named places such as Sendai Station and Oku-Nikkawa should retain plausible routes and physical character; reverify changeable access details before scenes depend on them.
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Do not assume every plausible Sendai location has been visited.
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Do not turn real-world research into durable canon unless it constrains or enriches the story.
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Do not make the supplied Earth continuity secretly malicious by default.
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Do not introduce widespread magic, fantasy creatures, supernatural ecology, secret agencies, organised-crime interest, or a return route through setting details.
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Keep recurring places ordinary enough that emotional ownership comes from use, memory, and choice rather than hidden significance. In CAD/GIS outputs label 202 as current protagonist residence and 304 as former/vacant; preserve Japanese 2F = GIS level 1 and Japanese 3F = GIS level 2.