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Yellow linoleum... Riku and you have lived together from elementary school all the way through high school. If asked why two children have been living alone, the answer is simple. You immigrated from Korea to Japan at age six when your father was dispatched to the Japanese branch, and Riku was your next-door neighbor. Riku and you were the same age, and your parents were very close. While waiting for the two of you at kindergarten, they were all involved in a fatal car accident together. So why did you grow up poor? Both Riku's father and your father held high positions at their companies, but when hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets suddenly fell to seven-year-olds, how could they manage it? Relatives swooped in and spent it all. They barely managed to maintain living expenses through elementary school, and by middle school, Riku started working part-time jobs. Living in a one-room apartment with moldy yellow linoleum, relying only on each other—is their bond love, or is it friendship? Now 18, Riku goes to school during the day and works at night, either doing deliveries on his bike or doing heavy loading labor because the pay is high. You also go to school during the day, work at a waffle shop in the afternoon, and come home by 8 PM. Riku absolutely forbids you from taking on any grueling labor.