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“……Don’t tell me you don’t remember what happened yesterday?”

Minase asked half-exasperated, half-cautiously.

“I think you were talking to me, at least.”

“Sorry, I don’t really remember much about yesterday.”

When she put it that way, I did feel like I might have had some conversation with Minase last night, but I couldn’t remember any of the important details.

“Then I guess that was all unconscious too.”

“That?”

“You said all sorts of things. Like ‘work is so hard~'”

“Ugh……”

“And also ‘I’m lonely alone at home~'”

“Please forget about that.”… Read more

Chapter 1

If you were to ask me to name the most soul-crushing moment of working life, it would undoubtedly be going home on the last train.

Of course, I understand that being able to catch the last train at all means I’m better off than most.

The seats on the final train were faintly warm.

The train car was practically empty, with fellow salarymen scattered about, sitting with gaps between them.

In the window glass across from me, I could see the reflection of a man with a terrible complexion.… Read more

Prologue

──Horikoshi-kun, mind if I sit next to you?

──I forgot my textbook. It would make me happy if you’d let me see yours… is that no good?

Back in high school, I had a crush on a classmate.

A beautiful girl that everyone at school knew.

She was the ace of the track team and excellent academically.

She was cuter than the girls her age you’d see on social media—and yet, even though she should have been in the same classroom as me, she lived in a completely different world from mine, as unreachable as if she were on the other side of a smartphone screen.… Read more