Ukyo cannot sleep alone.
He wakes up screaming, the pillow soaked with tears. He is tormented by half-remembered dreams—or are they true memories?—of carnage and steel and the screams of the dying.
When he was young, very young, he shared a room with his sister. On his twelfth birthday, he got his own room for the first time in his life. That first week, his cries woke the whole wing of the palace until Tessai took the room across from his (and he was the first one there when Ukyo woke screaming). As he grew older, the women of his harem soon learned better than to let him wake up alone. (They smile and bow, but behind his back he hears them whisper coward and secretly agrees with them.)
After the end—after he's been through hell, lost everyone he cared about (Tessai died to protect him; the women fell with the capital), only to gain the love of one he cares about more than anything (and it will be his job to show her that love is not a sin), he is still tormented by his dreams.
Ukyo still cannot sleep alone. But then, with his beloved Kirara creeping into his bed at night, he doesn't have to. (and his nightmares are replaced by visions of paradise)
