Volume 1

Summary
Machi is merely 14 years old and serves as a Miko in the Kumade Village. The Kumade Village is in western Japan surrounded by the Tohoku mountains. Bluntly, it is in the country, and its residents have lived there all their lives. Technology doesn’t quite reach this desolate place.

Machi was raised alongside a talking bear that goes by Natsu. He is like a parent to her. As shrine maiden of the Kumade Village, her and Natsu upkeep the peace between humans and bears that dates back for innumerable generations.

Machi grows tired of the dreadful, harsh seasons of western Japan, her ignorance to technology, the same faces around her whole life, the same duties she’s practiced for as long as she can remember. She wants change, she fixates on the city. She’s ready to enter high school, and she wants it to be there. The city is appealing with its bustling life, new faces every day. It won’t be dull and unsurprising like the current life she leads.

Natsu isn’t keen on allowing Machi to leave, hence she is naive and unaware of how cruel people can be. He worries for what may harm her that she cannot even predict. She’s susceptible to anything the city may present itself with. Machi deserves a chance, she deserves to make friends and experience new things. Not only that, but her determination relents to no one.

Natsu caves to Machi’s persistence and agrees to help prepare her for the city. However, that does not come without trials that Machi will find harsh and seemingly impossible to succeed in. Through these trials, tests and quizzes, she shows that she is willing to give whatever it takes to succeed. She’s cunning, even if she is wrong, she tries to resolve gaps in her knowledge on modern life that are rather intelligent and resourceful.

Chapters

 * Chapter 01: The Girl and The Bear Go Their Separate Ways
 * Chapter 02: Village Legends
 * Chapter 03: A Dance at The Mountain Shrine
 * Chapter 04: Trial
 * Chapter 05: Steep Road Ahead
 * Chapter 06: Protector of Tradition