Nioh-kun, Boss of the Liquor Factory

After breaking up with Hiroshi Yagyuu, Masaharu Niou disappeared overnight.

No one could find him in Rikkai Dai, Kanagawa, Tokyo, or anywhere else in the world.

Then one day, he appeared before everyone as a "returning elite" and a "specially recruited member of the Metropolitan Police Department."

Everything seemed perfectly ordinary, except that he now had a few new people by his side.

Gin, Bourbon, Rye, and Sherry...

When this scene and more appeared on a real-world online forum, netizens were stunned.

Had Xu Fei and Aoyama teamed up?

Was Shusuke Fuji an undercover FBI agent? Was Niou connected to Atobe? Was Yagyuu a forensic pathologist? And Yukimura was actually...?

Were Gin, Bourbon, and the others also more than they seemed?

This was getting out of hand!

★ Posted on December 4, Niou's birthday! The pairing is Yagyuu. It could have a happy or a tragic ending. The secondary pairing is Shishido/Atobe, and that could also end happily or tragically. It all depends on how the story develops.

☆ Niou will appear from different perspectives, with memories interspersed throughout. This won't affect the reading experience. Also, Niou and the Prince of Tennis characters are all adults. Everyone has a different position, whether they're closer to the light, the dark, or somewhere in between. Niou's position is somewhere in between, neither purely good nor purely evil. It shifts according to his interests. See the story for details.

Theme: Even when surrounded by darkness, there is still a bright side.