She let out a long sigh and finished her tea. Since the end of last year, Asuna was half forced to go with her family to the Yuuki head house, in other words her father’s old home. She also had to express her thanks to her relatives who were worried during the two years she was ‘in hospital’, so she couldn’t say she hated it. When she was small, Asuna considered spending the beginning of the year with the main family as natural, and was happy that she could meet cousins around her age. But, probably around the time she started attending junior high, Asuna gradually began to feel constrained by this custom. The Yuuki main family had, without exaggeration, been managing banks as a family business in Kyoto since 200 years ago, tenaciously surviving reforms and wars, the current generation opened a branch in Kansai. Her father Yuuki Shouzou was able to develop «RECTO», a general electronics manufacturing company, in one generation thanks to the main family’s financial assistance. Taking a look at the family pedigree, presidents and bureaucrats were everywhere. As if it was natural, Asuna’s cousins and brothers were also «top students» in «good schools». When all the children were seated side by side during the banquet, their parents talked about topics like how their children received praise in a certain competition or how high they ranked in a national exam. While appearing nice on the surface, they were just bickering without end in reality. Asuna gradually noticed a sense of malice in the environment surrounding her, it seemed to her like the purpose of organizing that function every year was to rank all the children.