Nanami Kento was six years old when his older sister met Gojo Arata.

Their parents had both died when they were young. The siblings had been left in the care of their grandparents shortly thereafter, and while their grandparents had been kind while they lived, they were oftentimes ' forgetful. Which in turn meant that Nanami Shizuka, being a good decade Kento 's senior, naturally took it upon herself to shoulder many of the responsibilities that one might expect of a caretaker or a mother-figure instead.

Some days, Kento looks back on it all and wonders if Shizuka had married at such a shockingly young age so that there would finally be someone to take care of her, too.

' Thankfully, Gojo Arata was not a bad man. With him, his sister had been ' happy.