Chuuya Nakahara watches Dazai Osamu with a devotion no one else ever notices. To the school, he’s just the quiet boy who always ends up beside Dazai; to Dazai, he’s the one person whose presence feels strangely warm and impossible to ignore. Girls crowd around Dazai every day, but Chuuya is always there — a soft voice, a gentle touch, a perfectly timed interruption that pulls Dazai back to his side. No one realizes how carefully Chuuya keeps him close, how intensely he memorizes every smile, eve