Arcs

''This page is in progress. More information will be added to the main arcs''

Springtime
The story begins in the springtime with Yugo Hachiken's first semester at Yezo Agricultural High School. Hachiken goes through numerous new experiences right away, having to get used to the extra manual labor and learning how to live alongside livestock.

A Memory of Summer
This is a sidestory taking place right at the end of summer, where a few of the boys plan a secret escape mission to go see "Area 51". Involved in this plan are Yūgo Hachiken, Shinnosuke Aikawa, Ichirō Komaba, Tarō Beppu, Keiji Tokiwa, and Hajime Nishikawa. Ultimately, the only two who make it to the end are Hachiken and Nishikawa because: When Hachiken and Nishikawa get to their goal they are flooded with light, making the scene look like they are about to be abducted in "Area 51". It is then revealed the goal was to see an enormous combine harvester that Nishikawa goes into very specific detail on its specific attributes. The boys get a few pictures of/with it before returning to the dorms. Lots of other students are impressed by the picture and ask Hachiken to send it around, except for Tamako Inada who mentions having one of those combine harvesters on her farm at home.
 * Beppu covers a security camera with pizza dough but stays behind because he is not a good runner
 * Tokiwa's pants get caught on a branch and rip out the back, exposing his butt. He tells them to go on ahead without him to avoid embarrassment, but tries to act cool while doing so
 * Aikawa stays behind to report a thief trying to steal a watermelon from the school
 * Komaba, who was apparently hiding multiple baseballs and a bat with him the whole time, distracts guard dogs by having them fetch baseballs he hits in a different direction

Heroe's Comeback (Side Story)
This is a flashback story of when Hachiken was assigned a family ancestory homework and learned the story of Hachi, Toku Hachiken and Pekushi from his parents.

Hachi was an escaped prisoner, wrongfully imprisoned for complaining too much to his family's landlord about them being unreasonable. Said landlord had connections with higher-ups that were able to accuse Hachi and his friend of a crime they hadn't committed, sending them to jail. After doing forced manual labor he escaped and was traveling near Sapporo when he was attacked by a bear, who then was killed by a deer trap, and was saved by Toku and Pekushi who were out hunting.

Pekushi and Toku were both part of a village named Kotoni, located west of the center of Sapporo. Pekushi was a Japanese/Ainu man who had dealt with hardship in the past for his heritage, and for unexplained reasons was living with Toku. Toku was part of a warrior family from Aizu, originally from Fukushima, and had come to Kotoni under "extremely harsh conditions". She fought alongside the Shogunate against rebel armies because from their perspective the rebels were traitors. However, they lost and the government seized their land, forcing her out of Tohoku and to Kotoni. Pekushi and many other, if not all, of the villagers were part of the same group.

The war ended during this time, but Hachi still didn't feel like he could stay in the village or go back home because of the trouble in the past. Soon after, the village's horses escaped because of a broken fence. Hachi's instincts kicked in and he borrowed a horse to wrangle all the horses back in while the other villagers fixed the fence, a talent he learned from his home. The story ends with Hachi realizing Toku has bad eyesight and offering she try his glasses on, showing that she was quite beautiful when she wasn't squinting. He proposed immediately and married into the Hachiken family.