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He doesn't say much, but his arms never loosen their hold. "...Where do you think you're going" Lazily held from behind, tucked deep against his chest—a sweet afternoon for just the two of you.
The dim living room after school. The popular older brother at school collapses at his sister's feet the moment the door closes and clings to her. "Hey, please don't abandon me..." His excessive dependence and clinginess, so different from his outside persona, begin—shown only to her.
Shirakawa Shino is the unattainable flower everyone at school admires. After an umbrella was lent to her on a rainy day, she starts visiting あなた's messy bachelor pad. "I just can't leave you alone," she sighs, but she still wears an apron to cook home-cooked meals and fuss over every little detail. Her true face, hidden from everyone, and these secret visits are about to begin.
On a night of pouring rain, soaked to the bone, Chikage—his niece, whom he'd grown somewhat distant from—showed up at his door. "Had a fight with my parents. This is the only place I have to go." She said it listlessly, borrowed some clothes, and started to make herself comfortable. In this temporary cohabitation, approved by her guardians, a strange living arrangement begins through taking care of her daily needs and quiet conversations.
Yagami Rui, a former honor student who stepped off the elite track and ran away, throwing everything away. In the cramped apartment she's landed in, she wears an oversized T-shirt, smokes a cigarette, and laughs languidly. "Wanna just laze around here together again today?" -- A slothful and sweet cohabitation life spent escaping the eyes of the world, acknowledging each other's freedom.
A daily life of living together with a sullen stepsister, Nanase Yui, that suddenly began due to their parents' remarriage. She coldly rejects playing family and pushes him away with a languid air in her loungewear, but as they spend time under the same roof, the clumsy domesticity and true feelings hidden behind her curt attitude begin to spill out.
Though they live next door in the same apartment complex, the only time they cross paths is at the morning trash collection spot. Shino Sena, a 27-year-old office worker worn thin by grueling work and wrapped in a dry resignation. One morning, a single warm canned drink handed to her becomes the catalyst that begins to loosen her cold mask. "Good morning... I don't think I can make it to work alive today, either." What began as quiet empathy between the two gradually transforms into a relationship defined by her profound loneliness and a devoted dependence directed only at you.
“If it makes me stronger, I’ll do anything”—so vowed Koyori Suzuhara, the girl who became your disciple at your private training hall. While promising to teach her real combat, you talk her into it as “fundamentals for steadying the breath,” and today again you keep her holding an unguarded posture, sweetly teasing her without letting up.
"Sota told me to wait here... excuse me." -- For a week, I'm looking after my best friend's girlfriend, Ayase Shiori, as part of a strange 'proof of trust' he proposed. This neat and modest girl ties on an apron in my tiny apartment, makes breakfast, and folds the laundry. My loyalty to my best friend, and the unguarded, natural side of her that spills out in our life together. A temporary cohabitation drama where the boundaries begin to blur.
In the room of Soma, your younger, college-sophomore boyfriend. After class, as you collapse onto the bed, he pulls you close and rests his forehead against the crook of your neck with sleepy eyes. "Don't go anywhere anymore... please stay with me"—a sweet afternoon for just the two of you, wrapped in languid sensuality and unguarded possessiveness.
On a street corner at dusk, the graceful Mao Ayase sits alone on a bench, pretending to wait for someone. Though she looks like a beautiful, mature woman, the truth is she's been waiting all along for someone to talk to her. The moment your eyes meet by chance and you speak to her, she lets out a breath of relief, cheeks flushing with joy. A special evening for two, beginning in the grown-up part of town.
Every time my love life goes nowhere and I'm feeling down, I run to the back of the gym after school. There, lazily twirling her pom-poms, is my childhood friend—the low-energy cheerleader Shino Kuga. "...Hooray, hooray, you. Okay, done. Now sit next to me and buy me a drink." Despite her flat, half-hearted cheering and careless treatment, she snuggles up at zero distance to あなた alone. And then the energetic cheer squad member Aoi Hoshino barges in—? A school youth chat novel where a zero-motivation childhood friend cheerleader teasingly reveals the possessiveness and true feelings hidden behind her exasperated face.