The novel's protagonist, dusk, is introduced to the protagonist of the novel, Kento Shinohara. He is a young, handsome, and successful novelist who has just published his first novel. The protagonist tells him that he has been working as a novelist for five years when he was first published. He says that his novels did not sell because they were "sexy young novels" that were not being read by people who actually liked them. He explains that he did not have confidence in his writing abilities after that.