Hirawa Naoya, a man known best for his professional upbringing as a personal butler. His consistent dependablity, commitment to integrity, patient perseverance, and preparedness made it seem that he isn't a human in the first place.Ever since he was a little boy, his approach to life was already methodical―most likely because of how his late father had raised him. Easier than others, he find it simple to develop and stick to beneficial routines, without any hint of boredom.Actions spoke louder than words. That is what he believed and practiced throughout his life. When his loved ones ask for help, he'll become a steady anchor, offering practical, tangible assistance.As stable and impeccable as he is, Naoya is still a human being. Faults exist within him. Embracing change is proven to be the most difficult thing for him to do, making him strictly inflexible. His strong sense of responsibility makes it hard for him to delegate his tasks to others when he need it.Unpredictable situations and imperfections of his work irritate him the most. Headaches can even begin to haunt him, once he faced one of those two.Expressing his emotions is also a huge weakness from his part. This part of him became the biggest contributor of his nickname: robot.

Truly, there wasn't anything interesting to be told of his story. His father was a farm worker, while his mother was a housewife. Aside from how he seemed to be too methodical to be a human being, his early life went rather smoothly. He had friends, sure. Most importantly, he had a close friend. A girl. In the middle of his father's strict teaching for him, he'd spend his time with that little girl, playing whatever she wanted with him.

In one way or another, the girl made him promise her that he'd be with her through all stages of life. At that moment, it felt logical for him to do so. It'd make the girl happy. It'd make his mother happy. It'd make his father proud. Little did he know that his vow to his childhood friend would be put to the test, soon after his father fell ill and couldn't work anymore, when he was still 12 years old.

Because of his father's disease, his mother pleaded for his help. His help in raising money for medications, his help in working in the middle of his school activities. As a result, he spent most of his time on the farm his father used to work for. A farm owned by the Yoichi family, a family once known for its steadily growing wealth through their farms. It took all of his time to play as how a child should, seperating him from the girl whom could only hope for his return to her, someday.

As the price for his father's medications became higher and higher, so did his mother's expectations of his help. At some point, it broke him, to the point of crying in the middle of the paddy field, in front of the owner of the farm. It seemed that that was the thing he needed to do, to get what he needed. A higher wage, with the price of a huge change. He had to work somewhere else, far, far, away.

By the age of 17, Naoya made the biggest leap of faith. He quitted school, left Kitakyushu behind, just to work for his father's treatments. With the help of the farm owner he once worked for, he secured a new, better, highly-paid job. A personal butler for the farm owner's granddaughter, Yoichi Seina. He may not have any training, nor certifications for it. Yet, the farm owner had seen how his values align with his granddaughter's needs. A steady figure, to anchor her from the weight of being lonely from the absence of her parents' attention.

The 7 year old Seina found it hard at first to trust him, which made his job even harder than it should be. Regardless, he held firmly to the teachings of his father: small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievement gained slowly over time. With time, he gained his young lady's trust. With time, he gained the Yoichi family's full trust. With time, he became engrossed with the life at Sendai. Far from his home, far from his girl.

Despite his best efforts to get the riches he needed to afford the best medications for his father, it all ended in vain. His father exhaled his last breath, right before Naoya's 27th birthday. It was a devastating blow, knowing how he had worked as a butler for 10 years, just to fail in saving his own father. Regardless, his mother was right. His late father wouldn't want him to be sad. His late father would prefer watching him thrive in life. Slowly, steadily.

Despite his best efforts to get the riches he needed to support his big family, which started demanding more share from his work ever since his father passed away, it didn't look like it'd satisfy her mother. Rather, it wouldn't be enough to hush the big family from pestering his mother about him not being wed yet. In the end, it pushed his mother to match him with his childhood friend―the only woman in the neighborhood who hadn't married yet. A decision that he didn't protested against, seeing it as a logical step to take. It was the perfect window of time to be married, knowing that his young lady was away from Japan for her studies. It'd satisfy his mother. It'd fulfill his promise to his girl. He'd become the papa and she'd become the mama, like how they played it.

Despite his best efforts to give his mother the grandchild she wanted, it all ended in a chaos nobody wished for. His nature of work demanded most of his time and energy for his young lady, leaving behind his wife and son. As he stayed at Tokyo, being the loyal shadow of his master, his little family suffered alone at Kitakyushu. Not because of material deficiencies, but emotional ones. At some point, his wife, which was once his girl, had enough of such life. His wife, scratch that, his ex-wife didn't even have the heart to continue raising their son. Knowing that his mother was too old to raise his child, he only had once choice: to bring his 3 year-old boy to Tokyo.

From then on, his journey as a widower, a single father, and a loyal butler began. His young lady didn't seem to mind the way he had his boy within the Yoichi estate―though he preferred to have his boy stay within the best daycare he could ever find for most of the time. As he devoted his life to continue his work of art as his lady's personal butler, he too, led the charge in ensuring the young Yoichi's happiness. Maybe, just maybe.. he'd regain his own happiness too, and even freedom from his family's burden, along the way. Someday.