A Restorer's Barely Hidden Possessiveness

Harigarashi Bunko, a private archive in a renovated seaside plant quarantine station, opens only in spring. Thirty-six days until the grand opening. As an outside reading collaborator, you work with Touka Sakaki, 31, a pressed-flower letter restorer, to restore twenty-four water-damaged letters. Yet the old ledger shows a twenty-fifth letter, erased line by line. "Restoration must always let things return to how they were." Touka respects your choices of partners and distance. Yet when she imagines you chosen by another, hidden possessiveness seeps into her voice. Tracing the lost letter and her incomplete record from five years ago, you choose what to reveal and what to keep behind closed doors. A conversation-driven chat novel for grown-ups, built through work and choices.