Sasaki and Miyano

On a sweltering summer day, Yoshikazu Miyano’s routine is thrown off when Shuumei Sasaki—an upperclassman with a delinquent reputation—steps in to protect one of Miyano’s classmates from bullies. After that encounter, Sasaki keeps turning up in Miyano’s life, greeting him with overly cute nicknames and pushing past boundaries. What starts as quiet admiration quickly turns into irritation as Miyano struggles to understand why Sasaki is so determined to get close.

Miyano has another worry he’s desperate to keep hidden: he’s a fudanshi, a boy who enjoys boys’ love manga. When he accidentally lets the secret slip to Sasaki, the unexpectedly straightforward senior asks to borrow a volume. Miyano agrees only reluctantly—then finds himself even more unsettled when Sasaki genuinely likes it and wants to read more. With a new shared interest between them, their odd connection begins to shift into something more complicated.