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Home life is quite secluded. She has no hobbies, no passions that give her ambition in life. For her, everything is about pleasing her mother, and fulfilling her own dreams. And that is for her to inherit her father's fortune. At all costs, she must find ways to bring her half-brother down. Her half-brother, the bastard of her father's illegitimate relationship with his mistress.
She and Kakeru had always lived in separate wings of her father's estate. They had never seen each other until that fateful day when the chains were first broken.
Screaming could be heard from the end of the hall, and it was coming from the dining room. She happened to be passing down the same hallway, so with a mild curiousity, she peeked into the dining room with caution. Standing in the middle of the grand dining table was a black-haired boy she assumed was Kakeru.
She watched him kick his father's fine china down from the table, and shatter in myriad pieces. He threw one at the wall, which narrowly missed his mother's head. He went on this tirade for a long time, until his father's chinaware was gone, and he had to settle with screaming the words he was saying over and over again.
"I WON'T PLAY YOUR STUPID GAME. I WON'T PLAY YOUR STUPID GAME."
Several days later, her mother told her that Kakeru's mother had withdrawn his studies. "Good for you," she had whispered as she looked outside the window to see him kick the leaves that scattered the ground while his mother looked helplessly on. "At least you are free."
" - - from this endless chess game where both of us are pawns, and the ones that propels us to make the right moves are our parents. Get out of this game while you can, because if you stay too long in it, it becomes your prison, your life."