The Kanjou Commission estate, situated at Ritou's highest point, had originally been the Hiiragi Clan's ancestral home. After the Raiden Reforms, however, not only had Hiiragi Shinsuke, the Kanjou Commissioner, and the entire Hiiragi Clan been stripped of their standing by the Raiden Shogun and Yucheng and reduced to commoners, but everything the Hiiragi Clan had accumulated over five hundred years had also been confiscated.
The Hiiragi Clan's era had come to a definitive end.
As the saying went, no snowflake in an avalanche was innocent, and the Hiiragi Clan could not escape that fate either. When their clan had been powerful, countless other clans had shown them solicitous concern and waited on them attentively. Quite a few had also developed rapidly thanks to the Hiiragi Clan's favors.
Yet after the Hiiragi Clan's complete downfall, the very clans that had benefited from their favors stabbed them in the back all the more viciously.
Hiiragi Shinsuke, the former Kanjou Commissioner, had been ambushed with a club while walking home one night and killed on the spot. Several important members of the Hiiragi Clan had suffered assassination attempts or persecution of varying severity on Ritou.
The chaos had continued until Hiiragi Chisato, the Hiiragi Clan's young lady, used her position as Kamaji's fiancée to ask Uchiha Sara, the Tenryou Commissioner, to intervene. Sara dispatched her capable subordinate, Shikanoin Heizou, to solve the case, and only then did the trouble subside.
After that ordeal, however, the remaining members of the Hiiragi Clan truly dared not remain on Ritou. At Hiiragi Chisato's decision, the entire clan relocated to Kiyose Castle, which was still under construction, becoming its first residents.
The Kanjou Commission estate had now become Sangonomiya Kokomi's workplace. Although the Regent's Office was technically where Kokomi was supposed to work, if even the