First edition, first printing, 2023. No obi. A very clean book. (As of September 14, 2025) "Kouya wa Gunjou ni Somarite: Soukoku Hen" (The Wilderness is Dyed Ultramarine: Antagonism Arc) Mizuna Kuwabara / Re° Price: ¥2000 Showa 34 (1959). Gunjou, who should have entered university nine years ago, has gone missing. Ariake Soap is on the verge of bankruptcy and is being sold off, with Akagi, the former president, now just an employee. Amidst the division and opposition between the management team from the parent company, a major oil company, and the employees from the old Ariake Soap era, Gunjou appears. However, he appears as a "technical advisor" brought by Executive Managing Director Kuroda, who is at odds with Akagi... A story of the bonds and hopes of men who ran through an era that had entered a period of rapid economic growth after the end of the post-war chaos! #MizunaKuwabara #Kuwabara_Mizuna #Re° #book #JapaneseLiterature/Novel/Story