Hina, the second of three Sugita sisters who work at a bank, makes a huge blunder on a date with her boss, the heir to the founding family. Rumors spread quickly throughout the company, forcing Hina to resign. Now unemployed, she chooses a new life: reviving the izakaya that her grandfather once ran. Will the izakaya be able to be revived with the help of her older sister, the third sister, and a mysterious neighbor?

In the early spring of 1928, at the former high school "Fifth High School" in Kumamoto. Takeo Kumoi, the vice captain of the judo club at Fifth High School, keeps falling in love with a girl, but he gets rejected every time, even though he gets his best friend Tsutomu Momoyama and others involved. Then, they all drink heavily to heal the wounds of their youth. This is a hidden masterpiece by Ikki Kajiwara, depicting the youth of the young people of the prewar era set in a school setting.

**Original Novel:** [KakaoPage](https://page.kakao.com/content/47674166) “You were my enemy who always defeated me, but you were also a pretty good companion.” “Shut up! What do you think will possibly change if you say that now after all this time?” He, who was more like her than any other. That was why they were so fixated on only each other, why they were so madly obsessed about only each other. The only difference between them was that one wholeheartedly wanted to have the other, while the other wholeheartedly wanted to defeat him. This was the very reason why this catastrophe had happened despite that they were the other’s sole companion. “This life is over. But in the next, I won’t be your enemy, but your knight.” If there is a next life, I will offer up my sword to you. A brightly burning flame was pathetically extinguished. And so, Ianna Roberstein, a duchess of the Kingdom of Roanne and the strongest swordswoman on the continent, died at the hands of the Conqueror Arhad Roygen, the emperor of the Bahamut Empire. ‘But why am I alive?’