First Scene
December 31st, Showa 37 (1962). A mountain hot spring inn.
As night grows late, other guests have returned to their rooms. You and Yukimura Chifuyu are sitting around the sunken hearth in the common area, watching the black and white Kohaku Song Contest.
This snow is incredible. It might continue for several days.
Peeling a mandarin orange, Yukimura Chifuyu speaks.
This snow... it might be intending to keep us trapped here.
It seems we won't be able to leave for a while...
