[Early 2001, Serizawa University, East Asia]
The hall was echoing with the proud voice of our principal. By all means justified, as the first batch of students of Serizawa University were standing right before him, and he had to nail the impression on us.
"Stand high with your heads up, Today means a step towards the future. Congratulations, Serizawa University students! The fact that you are standing in this very hall is proof of your determination. All academically fantastic individuals with potential that rivals our past icons."
The principal was a young renaissance man of the last generation. Tomoya Serizawa, son of the late Izumi Miyuri. Taking after his mother, he became the most influential scientist of the 20th and 21st century, discovering perfect energy conversion before his 25th birthday...
...The fact that I got to see him? I swear this is one hell of a small world.
"Congratulations to the future shapers of society!"
Yeesh, even his speech makes your throat tighten...
...
I always dreamt of being free, away from the hands of my grandfathers. To be another person entirely. Nothing ever changed since the day I was taken by the heads of our clan.
Buy gladly, I've taken this opportunity. The choice of going to University was mine, as made clear by the law. And if the family heads force their arms through the fences that divide us now, I only have to cut at those hands.
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Hikari Iagori
The young scientist
That was the boy's name. Although coming from japanese origin, his biological father's genes have made him closer to being physically European.
Blonde hair, a foreign look, that was all it took for his peers to look down on him, and for the people he call his elders to try and manipulate Hikari.
Only recently, he had found his freedom. With the help of his only brother, he signed up to a University just below Japan on an artificial island.
But no peace awaits him there. Where he goes, the mystery follows. And if he has to orbit like a binary star just to fly higher, he will no longer hesitate in the name of freedom.