Some author's notes up front: As many of you already know, this story has been finished on AO3 for about half a year. I'd intended to post it here pretty soon after finishing it, but kept putting it off because redoing the formatting on 110,000 words is really boring. But, that's all done now, so here it is! I hope to post a quarter of the fic per day over the next few days, so if you're subscribed to me, I apologize in advance for the spam.

That's all I've got. Everything from here on out is Renko. Good luck with that.

This document covers the events of my life from August 22, 2069 to September 24, 2069.

Depending on your viewpoint, you might know this as the period where my grades tanked, where I was arrested and subsequently escaped from jail, or where I disappeared from the face of the Earth. It was a pretty eventful period, and a lot of people are probably still dealing with the fallout. So, I am preparing multiple copies of this document, and will be mailing them out to concerned parties. If you're reading this, you're probably one of them.

Please find your applicable category below for further details:

* Parents: If you are mine or Maribel's parents, let me say this first: We're very sorry for disappearing without informing you. It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing. We'd like you to know that we're both okay and miss you. We don't have cell phone reception right now, but we'll call you when we go to mail these documents, so hopefully you should know what's going on by the time you read this. Sorry again.

* Police: If you're with the Tokyo police department, this will hopefully explain the events of September 18, 2069. If you're with the Kyoto police department, I hope that this clears up some confusion, and ask to have all charges against me dropped. I know that lying to the police is a crime, but I think you'll agree that the truth was too strange to believe. As for the car, I intend to pay for the damages when I have money, but I'd like it on record that Maribel wasn't responsible.

* Yuuta Ishimori: I'm sorry for revealing the details of your abilities to this many people, but they're vital to revealing the truth on these matters. I know that this paints you in kind of a bad light early on, but to be fair, you come off as a bit of a jerk. I'm including you on the distribution because I thought you deserved to know the full truth of what happened. (Maribel says hi.)

* Emi Usami: Hi, sweetie! This is probably too scary for you (also there are bad words in it, because I am a dissolute college student), so I've addressed it to your parents and asked them to give it to you when you're older. I hope to be back by then, but it's best to have contingencies. Anyway, I inherited the Sealing Club from my aunt, so it only seemed fair for me to give you the chance. You can have the official club supplies when you get to high school, if my belongings don't end up in a dumpster.

* My landlady: Please don't throw my belongings in a dumpster. Hopefully this will explain the rash of damage around the apartment complex during the time period in question. (You can stop reading around chapter 10 or so, it's all covered by that point.) You can keep my deposit. I authorize my parents to collect my belongings from my apartment.

* Future Sealing Club members: Finally, since the Sealing Club is technically registered with Kyoto University, I've sent a sealed copy of this report to the department of student affairs, to be provided to anybody who tries resurrecting the club on campus. At this point, I'm not sure who that would even be if not Emi, but stranger things have happened.

With that out of the way, a few words on the format and contents:

I know that it probably seems strange to keep a file documenting my life in such detail, but I wanted to make sure that future generations of Sealing Club members had sound records to work off of. My grandmother, club founder Sumireko Usami, was nowhere near as organized. She met dozens of youkai when she was younger, and yet she could never remember anything useful about them. She met a tanuki who might have been Danzaburou, and her notes recorded nothing except that the tanuki had a fluffy tail and could transform people by blowing smoke at them. Quote: "It was really annoying."

Grandma Sumireko was good at many things, but documentation wasn't one of them.

So, to add more rigor to our study of the supernatural, I created the Supernatural Entity Files and Case Files in the first month that I ran the Sealing Club. Due to the sheer scope of the events it covers, this file is way too long for the normal case file format. It would normally be Sealing Club Case File #28, but I'm designating it as Sealing Club Special Case File #1. This file contains a lot of personal information, but I feel like it was necessary to truly convey the events that happened. Summarizing it wasn't going to do anybody any favors.

That means you're going to have to put up with my attempts to describe emotions. I'm sorry in advance.

The contents of this package, not including the title page, should be 639 pages long. I can't find a stapler here, so you're just going to have to deal with that. I've also included the Supernatural Entity Files for all of the noteworthy entities that we encountered. This includes the files on myself and Maribel, which should be immediately after this introduction. All of our other case files and entity files are publicly accessible on the Kyoto University Sealing Club website.

Finally: I've been advised that I probably shouldn't include any clues that would let somebody extrapolate Gensokyo's location. I'm normally all about revealing the truths of the world, but in this case, I have to agree. I'd like to apologize to future generations of paranormal investigators for this omission.