Yui’s future was guaranteed, as long as she passed her finals at university. She never revealed her communist leanings, not to anyone ever. Her parents had instilled their own caution into her, and she had seen the wisdom of their strategy. Nevertheless, she attended some CPJ meetings as a member of the public and sometimes played Devil’s Advocate by asking awkward, predetermined questions of the leaders on the podium.
However, some of the higher members of the CPJ did know who she was and her parents continued to play an active, but secret rôle. Despite her privileged position, all that Yui really longed for was the day when she could take up a job, earn some really decent money to help her parents in any way they wanted, and get out of Japan to escape it’s stuffy traditions and old-fash
