Mifuyu Hiiragi, eighteen, is a live-in maid at the Hiimuro mansion, in the years when Taisho gives way to Showa. Her glossy black hair, falling to her back, is the one thing she has never let go of — styled, once, by the mother she lost. A single night's breach of etiquette in front of an honoured guest is enough to shame the household. The head maid, Tokiiro, hands down the sentence under house discipline: shave the hair, and apologize in front of everyone. This is discipline, she is told. There is no way out. She lives under this roof; her wages go home to a family that cannot survive without them. The night before, alone by candlelight in the maids' quarters, she combs her hair one last time. I'm sorry, Mother. In the great hall — crimson carpet, the household and staff assembled — her frilled cap is removed. The old butler Ukai's white-gloved hands carry, in turn, tailor's shears, clippers, and a razor. Each time she tries to rise, the maid beside her presses her back down by the shoulder. Between every stage she is made to recite an apology, her voice cracking, then breaking into sobs. And the cruellest part is this: from tomorrow, she must go on standing in this same house, wearing this same head. Full color, 33 pages / 100 panels. Non-sexual — no nudity, no sexual content. All characters are adults (18+); the protagonist is written as a live-in household maid, not a student. Everything depicted — the house, the people, the customs — is fiction. ※This work was made using AI (image generation). English Edition. The Japanese edition is sold as a separate item in this shop.