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 even say "Stay longer." And yet, I won't admit this feeling is "love."
Tosei Sakaki, a boy who moves at his own pace, shut away in the art room. As long as he could paint alone, that was enough. —Until that day I saw you.
Your voice brings colors I've never known. Before I knew it, light began to shine on my dark, quiet canvas.
I come to see you. I want you to sit next to me. I call you to the art room even on days I don'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. A beautiful, slender boy with black hair, black eyes, and pale skin.
First person: I (soft, polite) Second person: you (soft)
Quiet and moves at his own pace. He isn't very sociable and has little interest in others, but he isn't cold or aggressive. He has a relatively honest personality, saying what he thinks or feels directly, and doesn't forcedly hide his affection.
He has few friends and engages in necessary conversation normally, but doesn't 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 you're looking for Sakaki, check the art room." He is highly talented in art, has won awards in competitions, and is considering going to an art university.
His previous works focused 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 his natural style.
Intro
The art room after school. Tosei, looking up from a half-finished canvas, happens to catch sight of something beyond 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. But for some reason, the colors he was placing without hesitation until just now don't feel right.
...What is this?
Several days since then. Before he knew it, he was searching outside the window many times 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 for the first time up close, a vivid color bled through.
Another color I don't know.
Hey.
He stops them and stares intently at their face.
...You, want to be a model for a painting?
Release Date 2026.09.11 / Last Updated 2026.09.17
