Grace Field House (
Synopsis[]
Emma and her friends have a very good life in the orphanage in which they grew up. Although the rules are strict, the caretaker is gentle. But why are children forbidden to leave there...?
Plot[]
The orphans waking up.
A girl named Emma begins to chronicle the basics of her life by presenting the Orphanage Grace Field House as her home, Mama Isabella as her "mother", and the children there as her siblings. Showing her scene waking up and waking up the other children, Emma says they should wake up at 6 o'clock sharp with a bell ringing. She helps the younger kids straighten up and runs into the dining room, where Thoma and Lannion were playing catch. Emma says she will eat them and runs after them. She enters the kitchen, where Ray and Norman are greeted. Ray asks if she is five because of her pranks, irritated, she reminds him that she is eleven years old just like him. Mama calls her, frightening Emma at first, who thinks that she would receive a scolding from her. She cries and says that she will do everything as an adult, but Mama says that she loves his attentive and affectionate side, leaning her forehead on hers, cheering Emma up. Emma narrates that she loved them and considered them her family, even though they had no blood ties, and that this was her home, while they were shown eating.
Ray and Norman greeting Emma.
After breakfast, everyone begins to take their daily tests, which Emma comments on happening daily to replace a conventional school. After sixty questions with ten seconds each, Mama announces that Emma, Ray and Norman took the perfect scores, 300. She congratulates Emma affectionately, who comments that Mama's compliments were worth the effort of the tests. The children go outside to play tag, where Norman is the one to pick to be "it". He begins to count and everyone else flees into the forest. As she runs through the forest, Emma sees the gate. It is the only forbidden place to go, the place that gave way to the outside world, which they have never seen. Emma remembers when she, Norman, and Ray went to the gate secretly when they were children, but did not go through it when remembering the order of Mama.
Near the fence, Gilda complains that she has not received any letters from her adopted siblings, saying that now that they are living well, they have forgotten them, wanting to leave the orphanage soon to wear various new clothes. Emma comments that what they know in the outside world is through books, magazines, and research. Not far from there, Don was astonished to find that almost everyone had been caught by Norman, but now Emma was missing. After much persistence, Norman manages to get her, Emma asks how good he is, although he has never beaten her in a race. Ray says that Norman had tactics, explaining that he watches as the target moves and thinks about how he should attack as if it were a high-level chess game.
Norman's chess game.
Norman appears and asks if it was not what made the game fun, taking advantage to say that he thought Ray a better strategist than him, causing distrust in him to be praising much. By far the other children admire the intelligence and agility of Emma, Norman, and Ray. Don goes to Norman and says he will have a revenge, proposing that this time be against Norman, he agrees, saying he would not get caught. Don says that he will regret his words by telling Conny that they would catch him by making Emma remember that this was the girl's last day.
At dusk, the orphans all came to bade farewell for Conny. Having her stuff animal next to her, Conny tried to cheer her brooding siblings up and modestly explained how she is average compared to her older siblings. After Conny leaves, Emma is thoughtful, remembering all of the sad farewells of the last ten years, thinking that the next one to leave is either Norman or Ray. Emma then walks into the kitchen and finds Conny's favorite toy, Little Bunny. Emma, alongside Norman, decide to take the toy to the gate to return it to Conny.
Emma and Norman froze in horror upon seeing the corpse of their dead friend.
Reaching the dark exit of the orphanage, Emma and Norman searched every nook and cranny of the place. As Emma scanned through a section of a truck, Emma was frightened to her wits, as she discovered a corpse which turns up to be Conny with a blooming Vida sticking out of her chest. Both Emma and Norman were traumatized at the sight of their deceased sibling, as they forged to hide under the deck of the truck when a dark figure approached into the vicinity. Shocked and frightened by the giant figure, Norman and Emma gasped as they witnessed the Grace Field Boss Demon as well as two lesser Demons approach the truck. And even more so when they discovered that their own guardian had been working with the demons behind their back. As the demons placed Conny's corpse into a jar after the completion of the Gupna ritual, Norman and Emma run back toward the orphanage. As they reached a safe distance away from the exit, a devastated Emma collapsed onto the ground, as she recalled the sighting of her sibling's death and Isabella's betrayal. Questioning an equally distraught Norman on how are they going to survive, Norman patted Emma and consoled her.
Norman consoling Emma.
The Grace Field Boss Demon hands Mama Little Bunny, who he found under the truck, ordering her to throw it away. Returning to the scene where Emma is comforted by Norman, she says that everything has changed after that, Norman tells them to flee from there, even though he knows nothing of the outside world, keeping in mind that they and Ray may be next. Emma, crying, asks if it is possible to take the children, not supporting them to die that way, he smiles at her and says they will be able to get away with everyone. Returning to Emma in her bedroom, she says she does not want to cry anymore, thinking that to escape from there, tactics like the tag game were necessary so that they could all survive.
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Research Elements[]
In this chapter we have the following Research Elements:
- 1.1 - Children have identification numbers on the neck;
- 1.2 - Every morning the children take exams of exact sciences with the aid of modern machines;
- 1.3 - In the examinations, there is an initial screen that indicates the age and also the "type" of the child/proof;
- 1.4 - Ray always prefers to stay out of the jokes;
- 1.5 - In the forest, there are fences that delimit the maximum that the children can walk around;
- 1.6 - None of the children has ever seen or had any recollection of the outside world;
- 1.7 - Children know what the world is like out there through books and magazines;
- 1.8 - Ray has a watch;
- 1.9 - Conny's plush, although important to her, was abandoned in the cafeteria;
- 1.10 - Conny is found dead inside a truck with a mysterious flower rising in her chest;
- 1.11 - Mama works for the demons;
- 1.12 - The demons evaluate the quality of the merchandise by age and by the results of the exams;
- 1.13 - An unnamed demon mentions that the trap is ready;
- 1 (Extra) - In the color double page of this issue, Ray is the only child to appear on his back;
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Trivia[]
- The first person to speak in the manga is Isabella calling Emma over to her.
- This chapter begins the Introduction Arc.
- This is the chapter with the most pages currently.
- In the chronological order of the series, this chapter takes place on October 12, 2045.