PRESENT, 2020 (Modern City of Kyoto) It was love. The very second it had hit him, Kyouhei thought about the moment when he first saw her. That had been over so many years ago. He already knew that he was falling for her by then and that she was affecting him in ways no one had ever affected him before in all of his life. This was the only person who could get to him this deep. This hard. She was different. She was special. And it was love. And it was real. He knew it all along, all this time, and dared to keep it to himself for fear that she might take it the wrong way and leave him. That was why he said yes. When she asked him to do this all and be in this ridiculous plan to make him the most powerful man in this country. It had not been that very possible when he had first considere

