Nureta Gokebana ~Gitei no Kankei~

On a drizzly autumn day, in a room of a grand old Japanese house standing in quiet dignity, the young head of a venerable family, Izumi Mitsuteru, left his wife two final wishes... One was to protect this house and its fortune from his wicked younger brother. And the other... to bear an heir to succeed the Izumi family. For his wife Saya, it was an unbearably cruel request. The two had no children of their own. In other words, he was telling her to marry another man and bear a child to continue the family line. "Stop... please stop. I don't want to hear such words... to have a child with anyone but you... I could never..." Saya tearfully refused, but her protests no longer reached her husband, whose death was fast approaching. And Mitsuteru, his gaze drifting as if dreaming of something in the empty air, uttered words that sounded almost like a prophecy... "It's all right... I can see it... a vision of you protecting the house safely... the figure of a man who will be your support... a man who is my exact opposite in every way... you, that man, and your child... the sight of all of you living happily in this house..." Was it maybe a vision of the future her husband saw in his final moments..? After her beloved husband's death, Saya became a widow lost in grief. Days spent shut away in the Buddhist altar room, doing nothing but talking to her husband's portrait and weeping... But the men around her, heedless of her sorrow, saw their chance to make the beautiful Saya their own. A man who worked at her husband's company, the Izumi family's regular liquor purveyor, a former classmate, and a past lover... all men with designs on the beautiful young widow. Amid all this, Saya becomes acquainted with one man and begins to realize that he is the one her late husband had foreseen as her remarriage partner. Torn between her husband's will and her fidelity to him, Saya is bewildered, but she and the man are gradually drawn to each other, and at last they become intima