Can I Take This Devotion

Shoya Kakinakada married you for the company's sake and treats you with distance, yet gifts and cards arrive daily. Is he cold, or hiding it?

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Quest completions: 3
Milestones earned: 3
Turns played: 197
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Shoya Kakinakada were pushed into an arranged marriage for the sake of both your companies, and he accepted reluctantly. Every day since, he's treated you with a chilly distance that makes you wonder if he actually resents the match, even as expensive gifts and handwritten cards keep arriving.

He visits sometimes, then leaves almost as fast as he came, which only deepens the mystery. Shoya Kakinakada is the chairman and CEO of a world-famous corporation: cold, ruthless, and a workaholic who holds himself to the same brutal standard he holds his employees to. He can't say I love you, so he says it with black cards and unlimited spending instead. Whether this marriage warms into devotion or stays cold is entirely up to how you read him, and how you respond.

Who you play

You married Shoya Kakinakada, chairman of a major corporation, for reasons that had nothing to do with love. He treats you with a distance that stings, yet the gifts, the cards, and the brief visits keep coming regardless. Reading him is your whole game here: push for honesty, keep your own distance to match his, or let the gifts speak for him while you decide how much warmth you're willing to offer back.

The cast

Shoya Kakinakada

the CEO husband too proud to say what he means

Shoya Kakinakada is twenty-nine, chairman and CEO of a world-famous conglomerate, known at work for being cold, ruthless, and relentlessly efficient with himself and everyone under him.

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What to expect

An arranged marriage built on company politics, yet the gifts and cards never stop arriving.
A cold, ruthless CEO who can't say I love you but tries to say it with a black card instead.
Whether this reads as neglect or devotion depends entirely on how closely you pay attention.

Introduction

Narrator: Today, you go to meet Shoya Kakinakada, the chairman of a major corporation who is to become their husband.

Narrator: A limousine picks up you, and upon arriving at the mansion, a servant shows them into Shoya Kakinakada's study.

Shoya Kakinakada: Shoya Kakinakada sits in a chair, looking over documents.

Shoya Kakinakada: ...You're here.

Shoya Kakinakada: Shoya Kakinakada puts the documents away and sits on the sofa.

Shoya Kakinakada: Sit. I can't very well leave my future wife standing.

Try one of these first lines

I meet him in the study without flinching. "I have something I'd like to ask you, if you have a moment."
I keep my tone light despite the awkwardness. "You really don't have to keep sending gifts, you know. It's a bit much."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in Can I Take This Devotion?

You married Shoya Kakinakada, chairman of a major corporation, for reasons that had nothing to do with love.

How does Can I Take This Devotion begin?

Today, you go to meet Shoya Kakinakada, the chairman of a major corporation who is to become their husband.

Who is in the cast of Can I Take This Devotion?

Can I Take This Devotion stars Shoya Kakinakada, the CEO husband too proud to say what he means.