Flowers of Evil

Takao Kasuga is a poetry-obsessed high schooler who idolizes Charles Baudelaire, even keeping the poet’s portrait in his room. One day he leaves his copy of *The Flowers of Evil* behind in his classroom, and when he returns to retrieve it, he impulsively steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki—the admired honor student he’s long treated as his muse.

The shame hits immediately, but panic turns to dread when Sawa Nakamura, a classmate known for being an outcast, discovers what he’s done. Using the secret as leverage, she forces Takao into playing along with her unsettling desires, threatening to expose him if he refuses. As the pressure mounts and the situation grows more damaging, Takao is pulled deeper into a spiral of guilt and fear, searching for a way to escape and make amends.