If Summer Danced with Me

"Room 204"

1. Prologue

The rainy season had returned to Lan City.

Lan City was a southern coastal city. Every summer, as typhoon season approached, it always rained. Sometimes the gloomy weather lasted only a day or two; sometimes it went on for more than a week.

The typhoons that swept through Lan City were usually fairly weak. The winds blowing in from the sea crossed a small hill to the east of the city, keeping the moisture from penetrating very far inland. This year, however, the meteorological bureau forecast an exceptionally powerful typhoon, the likes of which came only once every thirty years. Everyone in Lan City was on edge. For safety reasons, the government decided that during those few...