Hello everyone, nice to meet you. I’m Garasu, the newest member of La Siora. It’s pronounced "Garasu," not "Shouko." It might be a slightly unusual name, but please remember it. As a child, I loved keeping secrets. At first, it was just because I was afraid of getting scolded by my parents and teachers for doing bad things. But gradually, that turned into a sense of superiority. Everyone thought I was a "good girl," but deep inside, I had impulses like "I want to hit someone"—that gap was something only I knew about. I think I took pleasure in misleading others about who I really was. But even that sense of superiority faded after repeating it hundreds of times. I got bored playing alone. Keeping secrets all to myself became dull. When I looked around the world, there were people who seemed to be enjoying themselves freely. "There are people who know pleasures I don’t"… That felt ...