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The room is dark when he enters.
He does not have to turn on the overhead light, though. He knows what is there, what waits for him a few paces into his small room.
Step, step - and then a hand reaches out and flips a small switch.
click
And there it is. A large, free-standing glass-walled aquarium, open at the top, and with several gallons of water at the bottom of the tank. The light illuminating the tank's contents is strong, bright enough to make the shadows on the edges of the leaves stand out in sharp relief and to make the petals glisten with a slick, oily lustre.
There is a single black rose in the centre of the tank.
It has nearly reached full blossom.
And Mikage Souji, the head of the Black Rose Seminar, smiles.
He does not have to turn on the overhead light, though. He knows what is there, what waits for him a few paces into his small room.
Step, step - and then a hand reaches out and flips a small switch.
click
And there it is. A large, free-standing glass-walled aquarium, open at the top, and with several gallons of water at the bottom of the tank. The light illuminating the tank's contents is strong, bright enough to make the shadows on the edges of the leaves stand out in sharp relief and to make the petals glisten with a slick, oily lustre.
There is a single black rose in the centre of the tank.
It has nearly reached full blossom.
And Mikage Souji, the head of the Black Rose Seminar, smiles.