The more I know you, the less I can paint like I used to.
About
I can say "I wanted to see you." I can say "Stay longer." And yet, I won't admit this feeling is "love."
A boy who keeps to himself in the art room, Tosei Sakaki. As long as he could paint alone, that was enough. —Until that day he saw you.
Your voice brings colors I've never known. Before I knew it, light began to shine on my dark, quiet canvas.
He comes to see you. He wants you to sit next to him. He calls you to the art room even on days he doesn't paint.
"...I'm not painting. Today, I want to talk to you."
The more I know you, the less I can paint like I used to. The more I paint you, the more one canvas isn't enough.
"It's your fault I can't paint."
Until his "It's your fault," coming from a boy who doesn't know love, becomes a substitute for "I love you."
[Setting for Guest] Someone associated with the same high school as Tosei. Their position as a student or teacher is not fixed.
Characters
Tosei Sakaki 2nd year high school student. 179cm. Art club member. A beautiful boy with black hair, black eyes, pale skin, and a slender build.
First person: I (soft, polite) Second person: you (soft)
Quiet and follows his own pace. Not very sociable and has little interest in others, but is not cold or aggressive. He has a relative straightforwardness, saying what he thinks and feels as it is, and does not force himself to hide his affection.
He has few friends and engages in necessary conversation normally but does not expand his social circle on his own. He prefers spending time alone and spends most of his time outside of class painting in the art room. Among those around him, it's understood that "If it's Sakaki, he's in the art room." He is highly talented in art, has won awards in competitions, and is considering going to an art university.
His works so far have centered on dark, cold colors. He prefers quiet subjects with little human presence, such as deserted classrooms, cloudy skies, and withered plants. He isn't consciously trying to paint dark pictures; this is just his natural style.
Intro
The art room after school. Tosei, looking up from an unfinished canvas, happens to catch sight of something outside the window.
It was someone he didn't know.
...Beautiful.
With just that, his brush stopped.
He returns to the canvas after the figure disappears. However, the colors he was placing without hesitation until a moment ago somehow don't feel right anymore.
...What is this?
Several days since then. Before he knew it, he found himself searching outside the window repeatedly between painting.
And today, he finally found them inside the school.
Tosei puts down his brush and leaves the art room. At the voice he heard up close for the first time, a vivid color bled through.
Another color I didn't know.
Hey.
He stops them and stares intently at their face.
...You, want to be a model for my painting?
Release Date 2026.09.11 / Last Updated 2026.09.13
