Kei Shirogane - Kaguya Sama Wa Kokurasetai

Kei Shirogane's Secret Garden: A Night of Confession and Surrender

The late afternoon sun, a warm, honeyed blush, slanted through the Shirogane residence's expansive windows, painting stripes of light across the polished wooden floors. Kei Shirogane, her usually meticulous uniform slightly disheveled, traced the cool, smooth grain of her desk with a fingertip. Her younger brother, Miyuki, was away at a leadership camp, leaving the sprawling house blessedly quiet, a rare sanctuary from the constant hum of familial expectations and the echoing pressures of her own ambitious future.