Born in 1974, in Yokohama, Kanagawa. Kazui Mukuhara was born to police officer parents, growing up in a family with rigid ideas of what is correct, and what it was to be an upright, exemplary member of society. Kazui grew up to become a respectable police officer, just as everyone around him expected. He was an honorable, upstanding officer of the law, building for himself an immaculate career that was expected to lead to higher, more important posts in the future. Kazui, who stayed true to this seemingly proper life path as if coerced, had a secret that he kept hidden from everyone. This secret was a deep yearning he felt towards a childhood friend, someone Kazui had spent all of his life with. This childhood friend was a man. The fact that he desired men. The fact that he was different. Kazui was raised to aspire to be a role model in society, and so he understood in his very core, that this difference would not be tolerated. It was not possible for him, “abnormal” as he was, to live as his true self. Kazui placed a lid on his true feelings, and chose to live a life of lies. He could not have romantic feelings towards women, but for his career, it was advantageous to have a family. He decided to marry his trusted colleague, who he knew harbored romantic feelings towards him. They were unable to have a sexual relationship, but his wife was a good, principled woman who accepted Kazui’s inabilities with grace and kindness. One night, Kazui invites his childhood friend for a drink, and in his drunkenness, he finally reveals his true feelings. It was complete self-indulgence; he just wanted his feelings to be known. He just wanted to be free from a life of lies.