Higashiōmi

It grows ever larger.

Higashiōmi is a city of man's nightmare. Once, when it was known as Yōkaichi City, it was a pleasant, tranquil place - a place in which children might play, and women and men might live happily together. But then the terrible grip of ambition reached out, and tore out Yōkaichi's heart. Mayor Ishikawa was rightfully elected to rule Yōkaichi - but he wanted more. He wanted more! In the name of simplicity, logic, divine right, he annexed town after town - Eigenji. Gokashō. Aitō. Kotō. And Yōkaichi, once a place united by common interests, became Higashiōmi, a city of division, split by assumptions unwarranted.

Resistance burgeoned. When Ishikawa reached further yet, he was stopped by the mayors of Notogawa and Gamō, who saw the darkness that had swept over Higashiōmi. They knew the demonic ambition that possessed Ishikawa's spirit. For two years, they held him off - but at last, on February 11th (the date of Japan's founding), Ishikawa took advantage of the festivities and slipped his agenda past the towns' guard. Notogawa and Gamō, too, fell within the burgeoning darkness.


The story still continues. Even now, the oni that possesses Ishikawa marshals his forces, preparing to expand Higashiōmi, most unrighteous of cities, further. Strike back! Protest the uncivilized expansion of Higashiōmi! Respectfully bring word to all appropriate authorities!

Only thus can the oni be stopped.