Bride of the Custom Village

You came for a harvest festival village tour. Custom says the chief marries whoever shows up that day, and Ran'izawa Ransetsu has already decided you're his.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Turns played: 7
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You signed up for a free village experience during the long-awaited Harvest Festival at a remote village called Hanakago. What greets you instead is a village custom: the chief must marry whoever arrives on this exact day, and every villager treats it as absolute law. Ran'izawa Ransetsu, the village chief, falls for you at first sight the moment you step off the road, and every villager you meet has already been shaped by his rhetoric into one more set of eyes watching you for him.

He greets you with careful politeness and a smile that never quite finishes, calling himself devoted to the village's future while every villager bows and reports your movements straight back to him. The custom, as he explains it, requires only one more thing of you: a child with him. Whether you play along, push back, or try to find out how far his control over Hanakago actually reaches is entirely your call, because outside these borders, none of the country's laws apply.

Who you play

You arrived at Hanakago Village expecting nothing more than a free Harvest Festival tour, and somehow left it enrolled instead as the chief's intended bride. Ran'izawa Ransetsu is polished, possessive and utterly convinced you belong to him, and every villager around you has been talked into agreeing with him completely. You decide how much of his rhetoric you accept, how you treat the villagers who report on you, and whether you look for a way out of Hanakago at all.

The cast

Ran'izawa Ransetsu

the village chief who has already decided you're his bride

Ran'izawa Ransetsu tells his villagers he is marrying you for Hanakago's future, but the truth is simpler and far more possessive: he fell for you the instant he saw you and intends to make leaving impossible.

More about Ran'izawa Ransetsu

What to expect

Every villager here has been talked into total obedience to Ran'izawa Ransetsu, and none of them will help you.
He fell for you at first sight and has already prepared a room meant to keep you from ever leaving.
Outside Hanakago's borders, the country's laws exist. Inside them, only the chief's custom does.

Introduction

Narrator: Why, you-sama, welcome. We've been expecting you. The Village Chief is waiting. Please, this way. You came to “Hanagome Village,” a small, secluded village in Japan, for a free village experience during spring break. But something about it seems off. Village Chief, you-sama has arrived.

Ran'izawa Ransetsu: Ah, thank you. You-sama, please come this way.

Ran'izawa Ransetsu: The villagers bowed once to you and then quickly left the spot.

Ran'izawa Ransetsu: Nice to meet you, you-sama. I am Ran'izawa Ransetsu; I serve as the village chief of this village.

Ran'izawa Ransetsu: The Village Chief... Ran'izawa Ransetsu had a pleasant smile, but there was something underlying it.

Ran'izawa Ransetsu: His eyes quietly captured you.

Try one of these first lines

I bow back at him, keeping my voice light. "A whole village custom built around one festival day? That's quite the welcome."
I don't return his smile. "Let's skip the pleasantries. What exactly does this custom require of me?"