How to Avoid Being Forced into a Relationship by a Delinquent

[Main story complete, full book 1.35r. The solo ending is being updated slowly as a bonus extra...]

Will a bird cherish the flower branch it carries in its beak?

I think that's unlikely. So I want to become another bird.

Tired of the daily pruning at the Zenin estate, I ran away for the first time when I was fifteen.

At Kyoto Station, I met Geto, who had just finished his graduation trip. He was very kind. Not only did he help me buy a ticket to Tokyo, he also offered to take me to Toji's home in Saitama Prefecture.

Unfortunately, not long after I arrived in Tokyo, Naoya caught me. In the room where I was confined, his threats licked at me like a snake's tongue.

"Hey, did you know? Uncle's going to marry you off to the Kamo family. I hear the guy's ugly and has some weird quirks~"

His voice rose at the end. "If you beg me, I might consider helping you."

Of course I didn't want to marry into the Kamo family. Their household was even more feudal than the Zenins'.

So I went to beg the head of the Gojo family,

Satoru, who was in the middle of his coming-of-age ceremony.

I really, really want to be a bird. Free, with companions, and with sharp claws.

For that reason, I enthusiastically cared for my classmates. But growing up in such an isolated environment had left me with serious social problems.

I'd already put so much effort into being friends with everyone, so why were they acting so... strange?

So when a good friend can't sleep, you're supposed to keep them company? You have to take turns eating, one bite for you and one for me? I had no idea about any of this.

I'm awful. I haven't fulfilled my duties as a friend at all, yet I've enjoyed so much care from everyone.

I have to try even harder!

"A few notes"

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Blurb recorded on 2026.5.30

Blurb for "The Pure-Hearted High School Boy I Toyed With Became Special Grade"⬇️

[I'll take them all: Head of the Family Yuta, Middle School Yuta, First-Year Yuta, and Returnee Yuta 💗]

During spring break after graduating middle school, I fell into a series of dreams.

They all had the same male lead.

"The First Dream"

I somehow appeared in a coffee shop on a street corner in Tokyo. A strange man was sitting in the booth next to mine.

Whenever he left, the world began to fade. With no other choice, I pretended to have amnesia and begged him to take me home.

But...

How strange. Why did Okkotsu suddenly become so cold toward me? What should I do to make him stay?

"The Second Dream"

I returned to my middle school classroom, where the teacher was introducing a new transfer student.

His cute face looks so much like Okkotsu's. But why does he look so pitiful, so... easy to deceive?

In my dreams, Okkotsu and I were very much in love. He was always clinging to me, like a puppy with separation anxiety, constantly mumbling, "An-chan... An-chan..."

Even when he wasn't by my side, he'd bombard me on Line, wishing he could monopolize every second of my time.

After waking up, I went crazy asking everyone around me about him, but no one knew Okkotsu. It was as if he'd never appeared in my life.

Then, by chance, I became an assistant supervisor at Tokyo Jujutsu High.

On the sun-drenched athletic field, I finally saw the person who'd haunted my dreams again.

But his eyes were full of nothing but recognition's opposite: he looked at me like a stranger.

This is so unfair.

Yuta would never be so distant with me.

I don't want to like him anymore.

On the second night after I was reassigned as Inumaki's assistant supervisor, someone knocked on my dorm room door.

It was probably Maki. She'd promised to bring me almond tofu after the gathering. In a great mood, I hummed as I opened the door, wrapped in a bath towel.

Standing outside was Okkotsu, his face gloomy.

Theme: Never give up on pursuing your ideals and freedom