21L.2557 — Puzzling Literature Solution

It's clear this is a runaround, but I can't make much sense of the path. It's the kind of runaround where you are looking for signs to extract letters from which may no longer be there. For that matter, the landmarks of the path may also be gone.

There is also something about games with a girl whose name is the Japanese word for "cherry blossom" which is Sakura. But since Sakura is one of the most popular Japanese girls' names in this sort of media, I don't know who it's referring to. I assume the girl is the one referenced in first person in the first part of the puzzle, who among other things is after a man in a black cape.