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[color=2edfc0][i]'Where the hell even[/i] is [i]this place?!'[/i][/color]

Ishiyama Tsurushi looked all over her current surroundings, searching a highly specific building in the southern district of Tenoroshi, but to no avail. Nothing stood out from all this mess of steel and concrete, which made things all the more difficult to discern from one another. Considering the job she took before becoming a grade school teacher, Tsurushi was supposed to know the vast majority of the city like the back of her hand. However, her life had made a sharp left turn since that day, and that might have had an effect on her memory. She tried to force herself into a recollection, but all that did was cause a headache that only compounded her issues.

Finally giving into the epiphany that she was completely lost, Tsurushi briskly walked over to the closest public seat that she could find; a park bench that had been caked with a suspicious pattern of white across a good portion of where one was supposed to sit. Whatever it was, it was a good thing that it would've long since dried onto the wood of the bench, or it would've ruined a perfectly good dress as Tsurushi sat down. She clutched her forehead with her left hand spread wide, all she could do to try and alleviate the agonizing pain inside. With a momentary glance to her left, however, she noticed someone who didn't belong. It was a girl. Black backpack. Mahogany eyes. Raven hair in the form of a ponytail.

And to top it all off, a highly familiar school uniform.

...

[color=2edfc0]"Tamiko?"[/color] asked Tsurushi, wondering if she would get the girl's attention, [color=2edfc0]"Suzukaze Tamiko, is that [i]you[/i]?"[/color]

She didn't want to be wrong. She didn't want to have mistaken this girl for the troubled 5th-grader that was in her class. But with much of her memory turn asunder like it had been, Tsurushi couldn't be so sure that her eyes weren't deceiving her all this time. Afraid of such a possibility, Tsurushi turned away from the girl again and looked forward, a saddened look across her face.

[color=2edfc0]"Never mind that, you should be in school at this time of day; not out in a place like this,"[/color] she said in a sorrowful tone.