Ex-military officer Ryu Fay Kazuhiko is tasked with escorting a solitary girl to Fairy Park. That girl is Su, an extremely powerful “Four-Leaf Clover“. From within her bird cage, when Su meets Kazuhiko, she asks him, “Are you the one who will take me away?“ Su knew Kazuhiko’s lover, Oruha, in the past. As a fan of Oruha’s singing, Su had expressed a desire to meet Kazuhiko, the person Oruha held dear.

The series was published from 1997 to 1999 in the magazine, “Amie“ (KODANSHA), which was targeted towards readers who had “graduated“ from reading “Nakayosi“ (KODANSHA), a popular monthly shojo manga anthology. This experimental title by CLAMP reads like a poem, with visuals and designs that make liberal use of negative space, includes no hand-written lettering, and keeps explanations to a bare minimum. They also experimented with the production methods, such as creating effects by drawing them first on paper and then shaking them over a photocopier to achieve the desired effect. The characters speak little, creating a purposefully quiet world wherein there is one song that stands out. That is the song “CLOVER“, sung by Kazuhiko’s lover Oruha. This song dictates the flow of the story, and helps characters with no voice to express themselves. Currently there are two volumes released. The first part of the story follows Kazuhiko and Su, while the second half recounts the story’s past and foreshadowing from the viewpoints of other characters. An animated film was also released in conjunction with the Cardcaptor Sakura theatrical release in 1999.