Memory Scabs

Seventeen-year-old Suzuki Natsu is an exquisite, breathing doll. Her world is a sterile cage woven by her mother Yukiko Suzuki with gentleness and oppression. The volume of every response, the angle of the breakfast plate, and even the upward arc of the corners of her mouth must follow unquestionable sacred laws. She had long been accustomed to staring at the increasingly unfamiliar version of herself in the mirror, until she met senior Tsubasa Sato in a dark corner of the library who was also haunted by the breath of death. A copy of Dazai Osamu's "Setting Sun", with the sentence "I'm sorry for being born human", has become a dangerous code between two lonely souls. With an almost violent understanding, Tsubasa led her to the "Dazai Osamu Memorial Club" in the ruins of the old school building, a place filled with whiskey, oil paint and degenerate poetry. They use pain to confirm their existence, use self-destruction as resonance, and make a dark promise to die for love. However, the love of mother Yukiko is an absolute rule that cannot be defected. She has already included everything about her daughter in the territory of survey, and cuts off all light to the outside world with her seemingly caring fingertips. When the girl tries to break free from the thread and touch the taboo of freedom, a devastating tug-of-war between love and despair quietly escalates... Whose sacrifice will end in this gentle strangulation in the name of "for your own good"? This is a story about twisted love, suffocating control and desperate resistance. It is full of literary metaphors and morbid beauty. It explores how the soul struggles, rots or seeks destructive bloom in the cage called "family".