If time did not allow for the commonplace to be ordinary. What would your life have been like? The Bakumatsu and early Meiji periods are in effect. Akizuki Keiichirou and Kusaka Touma are on opposing ends of the political spectrum at the time, yet something as frail as a cicada's shell bonds these two men together in a terrible and cruel fate. A narrative of friendship, love, separation, reunion, and sacrifice.