[Taito] Bringing My Partner Home for Lunar New Year

A special Lunar New Year story for the Year of the Tiger: Bring your significant other home for the holidays.

Taro, Torrekia, Taiga, celebrating the New Year with you.

Higashi Kotaro: emotionally intelligent, playboy, never stops for anyone VS the gentle, kind, helpful little angel, Kirisaki-kun

If you don't have a partner, trick your best friend into coming home with you!

Everyone lends a hand, time alone together, locked doors, and a stroll in the garden.

A thousand layers of schemes, each one more elaborate than the last.

Higashi Kotaro, living the life of a wanderer on Earth with his son, gets an urgent summons from his mother.

Son, it's time to come home for New Year!

P.S. Bring your wife. (smile)

Higashi Kotaro flies home overnight and barges into Kirisaki's lab with his son.

Kirisaki-kun, SOS!

Please pretend to be my partner and come home with me for New Year.

Huh?

The researcher, still wearing his white lab coat, looks perplexed.

It turns out his son was the result of a one-night stand, and he only got married back then to fend off his family's pressure to settle down.

His ex-wife came out years ago, so there's no chance she'll play along and come home for New Year.

Are you kidding? How can I pretend to be your partner?

And I'm a man.

Higashi Kotaro takes Kirisaki's hands and gazes at him tenderly. "It's okay, Kirisaki-kun. I'm into both men and women."

Kirisaki: Get lost!

Theme: Don't ask someone to pretend to be your partner. If you have one, you have one. If you don't, you don't. Long live being single!