20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku (novel)

20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku (二十世紀電気目録) is a novel written by Hiro Yuuki, with cover illustration by Kazumi Ikeda and backgrounds by Momoka Nagatani. It was published by KA Esuma Bunko on August 10, 2018.

Summary
Meiji year 40. Summer. Living in Fushimi, Kyoto, Inako Momokawa never succeeded at anything she tried, no matter what it was, thus being reprimanded by her father every day. Her one and only salvation was praying to the gods and Buddha and having faith.

On a certain day, while bringing her hands together at Fushimi Inari as usual, she met Kihachi Sakamoto, a free and uncontrolled boy who spat out at her, “I don’ believe in what I can’t see”. He denied the gods and Buddha, boasting that their era would be the age of electricity.

In said occasion, a discussion about marriage was suddenly brought up to Inako. It was her father’s one-sided decision, yet Inako gave in to it, thinking that her own worth was only so much. Mustering out his true feelings about wanting to free her, Kihachi took her out of her locked house.

The only way to stop the marriage was to look for a strange book, the “Electricity Catalog”. It was a prophecy book about electricity that Kihachi had written in his childhood, which his older brother Seiroku had taken away, the latter’s whereabouts unknown. Both Kihachi and Inako depart in search for the “Electricity Catalog” and roam around the territory of Shiga and Kyoto.

The secret hidden within the vanished “Electricity Catalog” was――