Kyou@Maaya Sakamoto (15) and Asu@Tomoko Kaneda (9) live by themselves in a one-room apartment with not much in it. Their father built up a huge debt and left, and their mother is in heaven keeping watch over them. Kyou wakes up early to go deliver newspapers (yes, somehow she can work even though she's only a middle schooler), and Asu gets up after she leaves, ready to make breakfast -- she's the one that takes care of things around the house. Asu's very excited about the upcoming festival that night -- there's plenty of money in the piggy bank so they can buy this and that, and her favorite, candy apples. After Kyou gets back, Asu runs off to the festival grounds to make a plan for what she and her sister will do that night. When Asu arrives back home her sister isn't there and the piggy bank is empty. Kyou comes in with a new yukata just like hers for Asu.... Asu calls her sister "baka" and runs off...
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