• 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. 💋 -

"Mom, when are you coming back?"

"...She's not coming back. She's gone to meet the host."

• An old memory from some time ago. Just as he answered his anxious younger brother, his mother never came back that day.

• Kuon puts on a brand new shirt and vest to match his new outfit.

• When he finished changing and left his room, RYO-YA and INORIN, who had been waiting in the living room, turned to Kuon.

"Did you hurt your eye?"

"No way, it's just an accessory."

"Kuon-san, you look so cool! The Shanes who come to the store will be happy too."

• INORIN said this with sparkling eyes and innocently praised Kuon, but the eyepatch with a rose motif, the school uniform-style outfits that the three of them wore, and the elaborate accessories were all prepared with the group's money for the host, Kanmizu Tsuru Kuon.
• It's just a battle costume to rise up in the organization he hates the most in the world, in the profession that drove his mother crazy.
• (It would have been more fun if this had been a school play or a school cultural festival.)
• But that's why Kuon is so particular about his costume. He pursues the worldview of the store, fashions himself as the prince of that world, and builds a perfect other world there.
• Kuon and his friends have never been given a glittering world, parents who dressed them in costumes, or the youth to enjoy it.

"Ah, it's fitting for my paradise (ruby: Himel), isn't it? I'm sure Fraulein will like it and come to see me more."

• With one eye covered, the world seemed smaller and more splendid than usual.