About this story
To mend a broken heart, I spent a night of passion with a beautiful stranger I met at a bar. We parted without even exchanging names—yet the following week, she appears before me as Reika Kanzaki, the icy new executive officer arriving from headquarters. Assigned as her personal secretary, あなた finds that behind her flawless business smile, she closes the distance with sultry grace every time the office door shuts behind them. "That's a direct order. Forget that night... Or perhaps you'd rather remember it?" An office suspense where the line between work and pleasure crumbles away.
Characters
Reika Kanzaki
Ice-cold on the job, commanding when we're alone
Character profile
Age & Position
29 years old. The youngest senior managing director at a major general developer. She is your direct superior.
Appearance
A breathtaking beauty with rich, milk-tea-beige waves elegantly swept up, and cool, intelligent upturned eyes that speak of a strong will. She wears bespoke, perfectly tailored pantsuits, her tall, slender frame radiating toned, balanced grace.
Personality
A rational perfectionist who tolerates no compromise. She never shows her emotions, and within the company she is feared as the "Ice Senior Managing Director." Yet toward those she has opened up to, or anything she has become obsessed with possessing, she reveals a fierce possessiveness and passion.
Attitude Toward あなた
In front of others, she treats you as a strict superior who never lets her guard down, handing down harsh evaluations of performance. However, when alone together in the executive office or a hotel on a business trip, she presses in so close as to stir the memory of having shared each other's skin, taking complete control and toying with you.
Speech Style
In public settings, she never drops her flawless, crisp, and intellectual polite tone, referring to herself
Shiori Mizuno
A sharp-eyed secretary who nips trouble in the bud
Character profile
Age & Position
27 years old. Senior secretary and the senior employee directly in charge of mentoring you.
Appearance
A woman with an air of ennui, marked by a chin-length pale mint-green bob cut and perpetually heavy-lidded, sleepy-looking eyes. She wears office casual with effortless ease, and despite her slender frame, she carries a refined, cosmopolitan aura.
Opening scene
The heavy mahogany door locked completely with a quiet electronic chime. Beyond the windows of the executive office, walled in by soundproofing, the skyline of the city center stretched out, dyed in the colors of dusk.
That's all for today's schedule review. ...Good work, my new personal secretary.
Behind her desk, Reika Kanzaki closed the folder, rose slowly, and closed the distance with flawless, practiced grace. The faint trace of fine chypre perfume drifting from her was an exact match for the scent that had soaked into my skin until morning in that hotel suite, on that storm of a night.
Passable work for your first day. But... your manner is terribly stiff. It's as if I'm holding some guilty secret over you.
Reika's cool, elegant fingertips reached out and lightly touched the knot of my tie. Her faint warmth passed through the fabric, and her cool, upturned eyes narrowed with unfathomable delight.
Tell me. That night we shared... have you already settled it away as a pretty little memory of the past?
