Also known as: "I'm a hopeless romantic, but I fall for someone else in a flash. Is that a contradiction? Not at all."
Hello, everyone. My name is Kawakami Ren. Thanks to my family's extensive education, I've always longed for an intense, dramatic, thrilling one-sided romance.
My first target was a good-for-nothing classmate who already had someone he liked. Every time I confessed, he'd panic and say, "Please don't joke like that, Kawakami. Classmate!" Unrequited love is the best!
But right before we graduated from middle school, Target Number One blushed and asked if we could be together. On top of that, I received confessions from several other good friends. Terrified, I moved my whole family to Tokyo overnight and enrolled in high school there.
My second target was a proud, white-haired high school boy who acted like he looked down on me. Please, keep it up!
But it seems I accidentally tried too hard again, and ended up caught between a black-haired and a white-haired high school boy. Could I say yes to that? Of course not! I decisively said goodbye to the jujutsu world and quietly went to an ordinary university.
At university, I swore I was going to close my heart to love and start over. But then my mom forced me to take a leave of absence halfway through, and I resigned myself to taking an under-the-table job at the liquor company to save her.
I didn't manage to save Mom, but I met the perfect unrequited-love target who rekindled my hopeless romantic heart: a cold-blooded killer who looked like he'd chosen a path free of emotion.
If I can actually win him over, I'll wash my hair while standing on my head!
At the end of the story, surrounded on all sides, poor, pitiful, helpless Kawakami Ren fishes out a phone and searches: How to safely wash your hair while standing on your head.
That's more or less the outline. I'll make detailed changes when I start writing.
The protagonist is Tomie's child, but takes a different, absurdist route. The protagonist is an indescribable, corrupting entity type, and everything they do is sanity-blasting, though they're a little stronger than Tomie.
In this story, all relationships with the protagonist involved, whether family, friendship, or romance, are extremely absurd.
In short, the protagonist really is absurd.
2025.2.10
Theme: Being happy is what matters most.
