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In her first life, she was a young lawyer-sharp, rational, and trained to believe only in evidence and truth. Emotions were distractions, and mysteries always had logical answers. But death doesn't always follow logic.
When she opens her eyes again, she is no longer herself.
She is reborn as Aesura Kurokawa, the secret daughter of two people she once admired from afar-Akane Kurokawa, the brilliant actress, and Aqua Hoshino, the enigmatic star with a darkness no one could fully understand.
Her second life begins not in peace, but in tension.
The world still follows the path of the original story, Aqua is alive, but barely holding on. His past is catching up to him, and his obsession with revenge is consuming everything. In these early days, Aesura is only a child, unable to speak or act, yet fully aware.
She watches her parents from the sidelines-her mother, desperate and composed, trying to reach Aqua through endless calls... and her father, slowly slipping away from everyone who loves him.
She remembers how it ends.
She knows he's going to die.
And yet, she can do nothing.
The first three chapters follow the canon timeline-Aqua still alive, still walking toward his tragic fate.
Akane tries to stop him. She calls him again and again. But some endings refuse to change...
no matter how much someone reaches out.
Then, silence.
Seven years pass.
Aesura grows up in a house filled with absence.
Her father is gone.
His name is barely spoken.
And her existence? A secret buried deeper than the truth behind his death. Even her own aunt, Ruby, doesn't know she exists-doesn't know that Aqua and Akane ever had a child.
But something feels wrong.
Her mother isn't just grieving.
She's hiding something.