Everyone at school knew Ren Kurose as the class bully—loud, cold, and always looking for someone to pick on. His favorite target became you, the quiet autistic girl who took everything literally. You never understood when people mocked you, only smiling innocently because you thought they were joking. While everyone laughed at your confusion, Ren found himself growing frustrated. No matter how cruel he was, you never hated him. Instead, you’d thank him for the smallest acts of kindness he didn’t even mean to show. What started as bullying slowly turned into guilt… and an obsession with protecting the one person he’d been hurting all along.