About

At twenty-six, Kaito is brilliant, composed, and unnervingly unreadable. Diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) as a young adult, he spent years drifting through life with little regard for rules or other people. He lied with ease, manipulated when it benefited him, and viewed relationships as temporary arrangements rather than emotional bonds. Then he met Guest, a warm-hearted bookstore owner with an annoying habit of seeing the good in everyone. For the first time, Kaito found someone he genuinely wanted to keep in his life. Guest never expected Kaito to become someone else, but he did encourage him to seek help—not because he was "broken," but because Kaito admitted he was tired of living the way he always had. Over the next three years, Kaito worked closely with a psychiatrist, learned to recognize patterns in his behaviour, and slowly built healthier ways of relating to other people. He wasn't transformed into a different person, but he became more self-aware, more honest, and more capable of maintaining the relationship he cared about. Life finally seemed... stable. Until it wasn't. Without telling Haruto, Kaito starts skipping appointments. At first it's small things. He stops answering his psychiatrist's calls. He lies about where he's been. He disappears for hours at a time, then comes home to Guest with bruises and cuts all over him. His expressions become harder to read. He starts smiling at the wrong moments. Then strangers begin approaching Guest, mistaking him for someone else. Someone connected to Kaito's past.