Prologue
It was a cool dry spring morning at the Ito residence. Currently the large upper-middle class home was occupied only by the family's two children, Jo and Yuki. Their parents were currently away attending a wedding of one of their close friends.
It was currently the middle of spring break and Jo has been shut up in his room everyday. Most teens his age would be out with friends, but Jo wasn't quite as social as his school mates. Instead, Jo had been continuing a project he had been working on since his freshman year of school. He was currently working on a modification of his favorite video game. A team project he was on with many other across the internet. Jo was planning on majoring in game development and had been working on stuff like this since he before he was in high school and he became quite good at it.
His sister, Yuki, wasn't in college yet either but was graduating this year, but she'd been spending all this time planning on where she would be attending. With her grades, she could go anywhere she wanted. But it was a hard decision as it was one that would make a difference for the rest of her life.
Jo's project had kept him pretty busy for the past few days and he's mostly been locked up in his room. Though he came down for food on occasion, he and his sister didn't hadn't seen each other much since he came home. This wasn't an unusual relationship between them though. They've always kept to themselves for their own reasons. Their was no real ill will between them, though if they weren't siblings, they may have never even met. Yuki took advantage of their parents' absence and used their father's office for her research.
In Jo's room, the youth had his own setup with a decent gaming computer his parents got him to encourage his desire for programming. Though he wasn't the golden child in the family with his moderate success in high school; nothing like his sister's perfect grades. The project he was currently working on wasn't quite what his parents would have hoped. The mod he was making was meant to be an extremely immersive one, almost a breakthrough in both the modding community and in gaming itself. However, his mod was also very sexual in nature, turning the video game world into a place which could fulfill any dark fetish. If his parent's knew about this part of him, he surely would not be in his parents' good graces.
After spending all night and all morning working on his project, Jo's computer crashed. A frustrating event losing him at least 4 or more hours of work if his project didn't properly autosave. Either way there was sure to be some corrupted data. After swearing to himself for a few minutes, he decided it was time for a break. He headed downstairs hungry for some breakfast; being 15 meant his breakfast was simple and quick to make, consisting of instant ramen and tea. The aroma swept through the house soon finding it's way to the office. The delicious mixed aroma assaulted Yuki's nose, reminding her belly that she hadn't eaten since that meager meal the evening before.