PI

 

(He=one who drink wine at the beginning)

 

CHAPTER 1

‘Nice wine…Hmmmm…one more cup!’ He was drunk. And lying down on the couch.

Edo period, 1623, Japan

‘The Tokugawa Shogunate requested you go to the palace, there’s something significant to discuss. Japan will be soon to impose isolation.’

 

CHAPTER 2

‘I already order that Spanish ships were forbidden to come to Japan, stowaways are punishable by death.’

He was scared. ‘Do you want do prepare for an invasion? So you isolated Japan to improve the military force? It’ll cause bad consequences!’

‘You’re still a fool after all these years. Don’t think that I’m same as those stupid roller, how can’t I don’t realize those consequences?’

‘……’

He looked down, but all he could see was the air and the dusty carpet.” Your Majesty, is the carpet to be washed? “

‘Wipe it for me.’ He picked up his sleeve and dusted it, and at the very moment he touched it, the dust climbed up his cuff with great speed, formed a hand, and produced a strange man out of thin air before his eyes.

He’s gonna pass out.

 

CHAPTER 3

‘This man has a very poor mental capacity. ‘said the strange man. He looked like a shadow, a shadow in the air, made of dust on the ground.

 ‘It is not my purpose to wage war abroad; the real reason for closing the country is to protect these outsiders, or rather to keep their existence secret from the whole world.’

‘In fact, I am from another planet in the universe, called Tiwat, where things like me are made of thousands of magnetic elements, our power, you can’t imagine. I didn’t want to be on your planet. During that trip, your planet’s damn magnetic field suddenly changed, and it strongly attracted my own magnetic field, and I was forced to land in your damn country. Even now, that bad magnetic field is still attracting me. I need to wait, wait for the right time, for the magnetic field to recover.’ The shadow said.

‘I have a deal with him, in order to ensure that he is not discovered by other countries, Japan needs to protect him during this time, and he will provide us with technical support, and I won’t hurt you guys. Although I have the power to destroy your country, but like I said, I don’t want to change your history. And, I love peace.’

‘Yes, a civilization as advanced as ours must not be known to more people. I’m not that high-profile, and if humans found out, there would be a war between the stars.’

‘Actually human can’t do that, if there’s a war, human civilization will end first.’

……

‘ So I mission is?’ He said.

‘Protect him. And don’t make him feel lonely.’

‘What’s your name?’

‘PI.’

‘Ok, pi…’(weird name, must be good at math.)

I just lost my locator and I don’t know where he is, so I’d better find him. ‘……

 

CHAPTER 4

During these days, he’s been staying inside the palace, playing games with PI. They experienced all the traditional Japanese culture. PI doesn’t like matcha. It’s too bitter. But he likes Okja (egg product), which has a lot protein and taste sweet.

Also, PI taught him a lot about how to live. Such as electromagnets and magnetic levitation technology. But without a lot of raw materials and factories, these things can only be talked about. PI doesn’t want to change human civilization.

They seem to become friends, although he says that PI is ugly every day, and PI tries to kill him by controlling the iron.

They thought it would go on like this for a long time, until the magnetic field turned back.

‘It may just a natural phenomenon, perhaps due to our large forces passing over the Earth disrupting the magnetic field here. ‘

Until one day, they received a letter from Spain.

The letter said, ‘The other day we picked up a strange device that seems to make the air strange. It seems that the world moved when it was turned on. This device seems to tell us everything, and we do feel strange things falling on your country. Please don’t let him go. The magnetic field is powerful. ‘

‘What device? ‘

‘I don’t know.’

‘They know you exist?’

‘Maybe…’

‘I know! That strange device must be my locator, something everyone in my pack wears, something to prove their identity. Must have landed in that country on the way down. ‘

‘What can we do?’

……

‘OHHHHNO!! Spain is going to war with us because we lied to them about not seeing you, they didn’t believe us and decided to go to war to solve the problem! They must really want your magnet…… ‘

 

PI started thinking.

That night, he did not sleep.

 

CHAPTER 5

We don’t know what happened that night, we don’t know what PI planned for it, and this piece of information has been lost in the ‘Star Diary’ (a diary belonging to Mushroom).

Maybe he went to the fight alone. Maybe it’s a conspiracy. Maybe Spain is fake.

We only know that later, no one ever mentioned PI again, and the samurai also lived a lonely life. PI left after all, taking everyone’s memories with her.

Japan is known only for its isolation.

 

They don’t know PI.

 

 

Comments (1)

  1. That’s an interesting idea, mixing a sci-fi mystery with history. There are a few language and punctuation formatting errors but it is mostly clear 🙂

    The coherence gets lost a little in the middle, but that is part of the style and maintains the mystery so it isn’t a big problem.

    I hope other students might comment on this. I’d be interested to read their opinions.

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