asuka Gift 1

The garden was noisy from the loud chirping of cicadas.

"Enough of this. Silence!" Kudou Asuka yelled towards the garden.

And suddenly there was silence.

The crowd of cicadas stopped chirping all at the same time, as if they had rehearsed it beforehand. It seems the words of the Kudou family’s Ojou-sama were more important to them than their courting activities.

Without even finding this odd, she continued strutting through the well maintained mansion’s corridors at a fast pace. She wondered why, even though this place belonged to one of the five biggest conglomerates in Japan, it didn’t have air conditioning in the hallways.