

Day by day, he felt alone, thinking that he was living life with no reason pushing him on. Yet Kaoru never felt at home in the Hanabishi family and left to live alone in self-imposed exile after his mother died. Since then, Yūji's grandfather, Gen'ichiro Hanabishi, took Kaoru under his wing and began educating him for the eventual succession. Kaoru's father died when he was five years old. His mother, Kumi Honjō, and his father never married, making life difficult for both him and his mother.

Kaoru Hanabishi appears to be an average university student, but in reality, he's the eldest son of Yūji Hanabishi, the head of the Hanabishi Zaibatsu, and was set to take over the zaibatsu after his father retired.
