Saiko No Sutoka (2025)
And beneath it, a single pressed flower—a red spider lily, the flower of final goodbyes... and new beginnings.
"You know, Akira-kun," she whispered from the other side of a locked door, her voice dripping with saccharine sweetness, "I just wanted to be your number one. Your only one. But you kept talking to other people. Laughing with them. Don't you know? Friends are just enemies who haven't betrayed you yet." Saiko no sutoka
Akira nodded. "I mean it."
She took a hesitant step forward, not to attack, but to embrace. And when her arms wrapped around him, they were cold, desperate, and trembling. But they didn't tighten into a chokehold. And beneath it, a single pressed flower—a red
Akira was the "protagonist" of a world he didn’t choose—a quiet, introverted student who had once only wanted to be left alone with his textbooks and his thoughts. But now, he was trapped in a nightmare that felt disturbingly like a game. Your only one
"Saiko," he said softly, using the name she had claimed for herself. "I'm not running away."