Verification (5)

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Sakamoto Ryusuke had recently gone through something unpleasant.

The woman who had been his bodyguard since high school and had taught him what women were turned out to have been sent by a cult.

He eloped with her, but they were caught before long and forcibly separated.

His first love came crashing down.

Perhaps that was why?

He grew cynical about everything in the world, and everything began to seem negative.

Then there was his grandfather.

Sakamoto Ryuichi, one of Japan's wealthiest men, said firmly,

-I raised you too gently. It can't be helped. Go out and experience how frightening the world is...