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The summer fireworks festival at Lake Biwa — a pivotal setting where the group comes together and where a serious crisis unfolds.
The Lake Biwa fireworks festival is one of the story's most charged settings. It is one of the events Shoko has always loved — fireworks are one of the few mass communal experiences not primarily organized around sound, and she can share in them fully. It is where the group's early fragile togetherness is tested, and where one of the story's most serious crisis moments occurs. The festival is also the specific geography of Nagahama coming alive in the way it does once a year — a temporary press of humanity on the lakeshore that makes ordinary landmarks into something different.
The lakeshore at night during the festival: compressed crowds, food stalls trailing smoke and sweet smells, yukatas and paper fans, the sky over the lake enormous and dark. The fireworks do not just make sound — they make light and pressure, visible and felt even for someone who hears them differently.
Also known as: fireworks festival, Lake Biwa festival, the fireworks, summer festival