Aria the Benedizione

Aika Granzchesta is preparing for her future as Himeya Company's successor and branch manager, yet she surprises everyone by refusing to inherit the company's legendary gondola. Her apprentice Azusa cannot understand why Aika would turn away from a symbol carrying so much history, so she joins the other Undines in arranging a meeting that might reveal the reason. Against the quiet winter beauty of Neo-Venezia, Aika looks back on the years that shaped her as an Undine and on the friendships that helped her find her own path. The past remains precious, but what she learned from it may be exactly what allows her to choose a future instead of merely inheriting one.