Volume 0: Fate

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Chapters 6 and 7 came out earlier. Make sure you read both first.

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Chapter 8

Third Person Pov:

A moment after Naoe-sensei expressed his intention to join Kijima's side, he instructed Ayanokoji Atsuomi also to abandon the WhiteRoom project since it was not something Senator Kijima desired for the future.

Naoe: Even right now, you refuse to die, Ayanokoji...

Naoe thought that after his talk and warning, the man named Ayanokoji Atsuomi would accept to get rid of the WhiteRoom project. However, even such an announcement that the whole ten past years were futile wasn't enough to crush this man's ambitions.

Naoe: While I may respect your ambition...it only puts my situation at risk...

Risk...

That's right...

The known Naoe, who reigned over the political world and Citizen Party, was against the wall for the first time in his whole life.

In an entirely new world where politics and politicians are covered in the media more than ever...

A mistake from the past caught up with him stronger than ever...

A single mistake he couldn't stop back then...

A kid...

A kid from a prostitute he couldn't get rid of in due time because of being unaware of the situation.

Back then, he thought letting the kid do his life away from all that would present fewer risks.

Naoe never expected the kid born from a prostitute to become such a man...

Fukazawa Yukichi...

Fukazawa is a name the kid gave himself when he had nothing.

Fukazawa's name was something belonging to that kid and only him.

That's how, with his single name for himself, the kid fought...

He fought despite having life against him...

He carried his burden alone while striving for a better world.

That's how a man is born into this world with nothing.

Naoe: Mori selling me out to Kijima...yet leaving this side of the world and abandoning everything?

At first, he thought Mori Ougai had betrayed him by siding with Kijima. However, it had never been Mori's plan to join Kijima.

Then why?

Aside from discovering an explanation for how he learned Naoe and Yukichi were related...

Why would he share this weakness with Kijima? Naoe's principal opponent?

Naoe: If a scandal breaks out in the media, I would have ended up losing against Kijima, who's the current face of our party...my generation used to work from the shadow and do whatever we wanted...we end up being crushed by a good talker who public took a liking in...what a ridiculous fate it is...

While Naoe was preparing a battle behind the scenes against Senator Kijima, this last one only did what he was used to...

Being honest with himself.

While having great respect for the previous generation, he wouldn't support such behavior...

That's why he lent his hand instead of crushing his opponent completely with his weakness...

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