Twittering Birds Never Fly

Yashiro heads the Shinsekai yakuza group with cold precision, yet behind the authority lies a reckless sexual appetite and a streak of masochism. Scarred by the only person he ever truly loved, he keeps intimacy at arm’s length, limiting himself to relationships that never go beyond the physical.

His superior soon assigns Chikara Doumeki—fresh out of prison—as his new bodyguard. Quiet, sharp-eyed, and awkwardly clumsy, Doumeki is also impotent, a fact that frustrates Yashiro as he tests boundaries he normally refuses to cross with subordinates. Doumeki repeatedly turns him down, even as he admits to finding Yashiro beautiful and insists on staying at his side; as their proximity deepens, the past each man carries begins to surface, threatening to complicate what’s forming between them.