Scum's Wish

Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya look like an ideal couple to everyone around them, yet their relationship is built on a shared, private ache: each is in love with someone they can’t have. When Hanabi learns that her longtime neighbor and childhood friend, Narumi Kanai, has become her homeroom teacher, her feelings surge—only to be shaken as the school’s music teacher, Akane Minagawa, begins to grow close to him.

Akane is also the person Mugi has carried a quiet love for since middle school, when she once tutored him. After a chance encounter brings Hanabi and Mugi together, they recognize the same loneliness in each other and form a pact—using one another as stand-ins for their true desires. As they cling to physical closeness to dull the pain, their arrangement pulls them deeper into a complicated web of longing and heartbreak.