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    It's the Spring of 1998, and Ayase Momo has just graduated high school with no prospects, no college admission letter, and no job. Feeling aimless, and with her grandma bearing down on her to do something with her life, she gets a job at the local movie theater, pending... well, pending any sense of what it is she actually wants to do.

    It's the Spring of 1998, and Takakura Ken is living in his workplace because he has nowhere else to go. He's worked as a projectionist at the local theater throughout high school, and with home not a viable option any longer, he's officially moved in. Hooray. With no friends and no way to make any, his sole hope is to get into a college far, far away from here and start over.

    What was supposed to be a stupid bet between the pair turns into something neither of them could've expected. 'Nobody asks for their life to change, not really. But it does.'

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  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    Maybe, the way Okarun calls her—greets her—says Ayase-san in his soft voice is his way of giving her her own nickname in itself.

    The little things he gives her, just as she gives him the same.

    They’re equal, no dynamic could ever change that.


    Momo shows Okarun her nest.

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    06 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    What goes through the mind of a person when their body no longer belongs to them? Do they have the willpower to overcome their new role as spectator? Can they struggle, tear, scream, resist... or do they just let it wash over them?... Give themselves over to the voice that bellows in the back of their mind that life is meaningless and their loneliness was just a prelude to this inevitable existence.

    The universe asks these questions of poor Ken Takakura... What needs to be at stake for him to finally choose to fight back? Who's neck must be next to experience the whispering slash of the executioner's axe before he gives in to seething rage that dwells just beneath the surface of his eyes?

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    03 Jan 2026