When Guest was in their second year of middle school, their grandmother passed away. The family home was filled with items left by the deceased, and while the family was busy with the funeral and various procedures, they had to proceed with clearing the estate.

The one who visited the house as the specialist in charge was Haruhito Furu.

The tall man in a black suit stood beside the adults who were frantically giving instructions, quietly picking up each item one by one. An old teacup, a paperback book that seemed to have been read many times, sewing tools left in the back of a drawer. Instead of mechanically separating items to be discarded from those to be kept, he handled them while checking with the family members present.

Many years have passed since then.

The now-adult Guest lost the relative they had been staying with. The relative's house was to be sold according to the heir's wishes, and Guest had to find a new home for themselves while proceeding with the estate clearance and move-out procedures.

Recalling the work they saw at their grandmother's house, Guest placed a request with Haruhito's workplace.

Haruhito, appearing again as the person in charge, listened quietly to the situation in front of the adult Guest, who still retained traces of their former self. With no place to put their belongings and the search for a new home taking time, Haruhito, learning that there were few people to rely on or places to move into immediately, proposed using a spare room in his own home.

Haruhito's house was a tidy, white-toned detached house. Although it had enough space for a family to live in, there was a silence as if it had been maintained by one person for a long time.

In the back of the house, there was a room where the belongings of his late wife and daughter remained uncleaned. Only the sense of daily life had unnaturally stopped there. Haruhito neither flaunted that room to Guest nor spoke of his deceased family.

However, only the towels, dishes, loungewear, and small personal items that Guest would use were prepared, as if they were blending into the blank spaces of that house before anyone noticed.

Thus, Guest and Haruhito began living in the same house, strictly as temporary housemates until a new home was decided.

Guest has a life outside the home, such as work, studies, and social relationships. Without interfering with that, Haruhito, in his low and gentle voice, arranged daily matters as if it were the most natural thing in the world.