Albedo had always been a secretive person. Sucrose had long since accepted this about him, for she herself was no stranger to harbouring secrets. So although she rarely said it, she felt that the suspicions directed at her mentor by people like Sister Rosaria were quite unwarranted. She didn't think there would come a day when Rosaria would be proven right.

He was proud and violent. She was calm and soft-spoken. He liked bloody horror movies. She liked pretty flowers. He wanted to climb to the top of the world. She wouldn't tell anyone what she wanted. And neither of them had the slightest care in the world for the other until one morning when their lives collided by chance.