Itsuwari No Requiem (Harlequin Kurashikkusu Eien No Love Story) / Original Title: TIGER EYES

[Machine Translation] Did you write that song for Rick Daker? Tansy, who had been touting his next ballad on the street, froze at the words. You finally showed up, Leo Daker. Rick's half-brother by mother. Seventeen-year-old Rick, a runaway, had stayed in Tansy's flat for two months and then left to find himself. He left, telling me not to tell anyone where he was. 'I want to talk to you about my brother. His mother... has cancer and he wants to see her.' It was a shock, like a slap in the cheek. But I can't talk about Rick! Although he brushed it off by saying he couldn't help her, Tansy was uneasy because she sensed a dangerous wildness lurking beneath his neat exterior. Leo would go to any lengths to find out his brother's whereabouts. And her fears would soon come true.

「きみはその曲をリック・デイカーのために書いたのか?」通りで次作のバラードを謳っていたタンジーは、その言葉に凍りついた。とうとう現れたわね、レオ・デイカー。リックの母親違いの兄。家出した十七歳のリックは、二カ月タンジーのフラットに居候したあと自分を見つけたいと出ていった。誰にも居場所は教えないでと言い残して。「弟のことで話がしたい。母親が…癌で、会いたがっているんだ」頬を打たれたようなショックだった。でもリックのことは言えない!お役には立てませんとその場は切り抜けたものの、タンジーは彼の端整な外見の下に潜む危険な野性を感じて不安だった。レオはどんな手を使っても弟の居場所を聞き出そうとするに違いない。そして彼女の恐れは、やがて現実となるのだった。