Afternoon, Capital City.
An old-style mansion.
Kagura Hikaru sat alone in the tatami room, tapping at the laptop keyboard.
He typed swiftly, as if without thinking.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of words appeared on the screen.
The mirror screen reflected his calm face.
He still appeared young, with taut skin.
But his temperament had shed its past sharpness, becoming steady and gentle like jade.
It had been ten years since Kagura Hikaru graduated.
During this period, the once-popular Red Pepper Band spectacularly disbanded.
The members parted on friendly terms due to individual real-life reasons.
Kagura Hikaru also seized the opportunity to end his composing work and ventured into the literary world.
He is now world-renowned, a writer of great note in his generation.
Ai Cheng Hua Lian, too, changed careers after the band disbanded.
She majored in the Fine Arts Department in college, and after leaving the band, started doing art at a game company.
