Two geniuses. One ordinary man. A painter who is beauty incarnate. These are the figures at the center of the second act of the cherry blossom story — the true story of Natsume Kei and Kusanagi Naoya that unfolds after Sakura no Uta. The genius chosen by God and the genius abandoned by him; the ordinary man who refuses to stop resisting. The painter Misakura Rin, who embodies beauty itself, presses beyond the point where they stopped. What is the grace of beauty, and why is its fruit given only to the chosen? Where do we come from, who are we, where are we going? All kinds of human thought intersect in a world where the light of causal exchange binds everything together.