Happy Monster Island
You should have brought an extra jumper, you're drunk enough to go to bed with a fat girl and the only sure thing you can say about where you are is a) somewhere on the Island as you didn't travel by boat since leaving Nobo's party and b) someplace covered in Cedar trees which describes 80% of the surface of Koriyama Island.
Your mission if you choose to accept it is to find your way back to the guest house and hope they'll have pity when they hear you knocking and let you in despite the fact that it is 2 hours past curfew and this is Japan, rural Japan and impoliteness of that kind is not just looked down on it is actively punished.
Your landlady Mrs Shiguro is a kind woman but kind or not you know if you were even one day late with the rent you'd find your belongings neatly packed and placed outside the door to your room. The advantage to a similar situtation back home of course is that here most of the walls and doors are made of paper. One thing you've learned about Japanese society since being here is that they have a built-in expectation of politeness, the only impolite people make up the Yakuza and other gangs, only criminals are impolite goes the assumption. Criminals and what you are, a Gaijin otherwise known as a Philadelphian otherwise known as a "white devil", just kidding.
You can see a path of wooden slats leading to the North. With no way to see where you're going it would be foolish to leave it. It would be too embarassing to return to Nobo and ask to stay with him so there's really only one choice.
Your mission if you choose to accept it is to find your way back to the guest house and hope they'll have pity when they hear you knocking and let you in despite the fact that it is 2 hours past curfew and this is Japan, rural Japan and impoliteness of that kind is not just looked down on it is actively punished.
Your landlady Mrs Shiguro is a kind woman but kind or not you know if you were even one day late with the rent you'd find your belongings neatly packed and placed outside the door to your room. The advantage to a similar situtation back home of course is that here most of the walls and doors are made of paper. One thing you've learned about Japanese society since being here is that they have a built-in expectation of politeness, the only impolite people make up the Yakuza and other gangs, only criminals are impolite goes the assumption. Criminals and what you are, a Gaijin otherwise known as a Philadelphian otherwise known as a "white devil", just kidding.
You can see a path of wooden slats leading to the North. With no way to see where you're going it would be foolish to leave it. It would be too embarassing to return to Nobo and ask to stay with him so there's really only one choice.