This is a story from a distant planet, set in the distant future long ago.
The Star Festival held in a small village in a small country during the summer.
Under the meteors that poured down once a year, Flora and Claire met.
The two who seemed to have known each other forever, the two who made a distant promise.
But when they met again at the Star Festival in the year they turned sixteen, Flora discovered that Claire had forgotten her.
Claire had been in an accident on the way home from last year's Star Festival and had lost her memory.
To recover that memory, the girls decided to reach the top of the Star-Picking Tower on the night of the Star Festival.
If they could get there and seize the star, Claire's memories might return.
If you picked a small star, you would receive a small happiness.
If you picked a large star, you would receive great wealth.
If you picked both, you would receive an eternal wish.
Star-picking was the forgiveness of sin, and star-picking was a miracle of the night.
Relying on song, the two reached the Star-Picking Tower.
But someone blocked their path.
They were the Sinful Goddesses, who had been imprisoned in this tower five hundred years ago, who had slept here, and who would die here.
Passion, avoidance, arrogance, bondage, jealousy, despair.
Why had they been imprisoned here? What sins had they committed?
Over the long years, the Goddesses had even forgotten that, yet they still blocked the girls' path.
Even though the Goddesses' dark emotions hindered them, the two overcame obstacle after obstacle and reached the top of the tower.
However, just as they were about to pluck the star, a dazzling radiance suddenly erupted, and Flora lost both her eyes. Amid