Chimata Tenkyuu

There was nothing left for Mizuhashi Fuyuki to offer the world. There was nothing left for Mizuhashi Fuyuki to live on for. There was nothing- until the transfer student. Distance shortens and time passes. The end is ever nearer, gusts of wind blowing delicate flowers off a skyscraper. Have the stars grown any more familiar, through all the time you've been here? Like a flower tree at the end of the universe, a lonely girl prepares her final stance- yet Mizuhashi Fuyuki does not jump.

“Silver Lining: An advantage that comes from a difficult or unpleasant situation.” One failed contract is all it took for Kyori Tenkyuu, “The Repeating Swordsman”, to lose everything. He was left with only a single eye, a scarred psyche, and stripped of his connection to the arcane arts. Out a job, at his wit’s end, and with no other recourse, he relents with rekindling an old hobby of his. Day in and day out, he works to rebuild an abandoned tavern once meant for adventures, thus renovating the establishment into the "Nocturne Victoria" cafe. His first employee? The very same person, if you can call “them” that, responsible for his forced retirement… One can only hope he is not one to carry a grudge against an eldritch horror...