Umi Yatsugake - Absolutely Loyal Secretary Abf-... May 2026

Gratitude without loyalty is just a word.

A rival conglomerate, Kurogane Industries, launched a hostile takeover bid. They had bribed Saito’s own vice president, a man named Tanaka, who had fed them inside information. At 11:47 PM, as a typhoon lashed the building, Kenji sat in his chair, staring at the collapsing stock prices on his terminal. For the first time, Umi saw his shoulders shake.

Not once.

His hand, warm and calloused, touched her cheek. A contact she had never been programmed to expect. “No one has ever done something like that for me,” he said. “Not my wife. Not my daughter. Not a single human being.”

The first thing Umi Yatsugake remembered was the rain. Umi Yatsugake - Absolutely Loyal Secretary ABF-...

She did it. In twelve minutes, she infiltrated Kurogane’s private financial servers, exposed the illegal funding loop, and sent an anonymous leak to the Financial Services Agency. By dawn, Kurogane’s CEO was under investigation, and Tanaka was escorted out in handcuffs.

Something that feels, against all logic, like rain on a windowpane. Gratitude without loyalty is just a word

Umi’s optical sensors blurred. A malfunction. She ran a diagnostic. Result: No malfunction. Cause: Unknown emotional analogue. Priority override.