Articles - The Fruit of Grisaia

Six fruits bare their fangs at the world. The academy was their orchard. In this place of learning, protected by high walls from the outside world, there arrived a single young man who'd lost his purpose in life. He'd lost sight of what he wanted to protect. He passed his days in a haze of guilt and regret. All that remained to him were the chains around his neck... And a life worth less than that of a stray dog. But in that academy, he would meet five young women. And in time, he would discover a new thread of hope. --That girl's very birth was a mistake. The sin of disobedience-- --A life not so different from death. No one’s going to protect you-- --And survival itself can be a punishment. That place was their orchard. Those young women were the fruits of remorse, grown on the tree of sorrow. "What can I do for them...?" In that thought lay the undying hope one young man had dreamed of finding--