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Several years ago, a young boy named Asahi witnessed his parents' murder and was kidnapped on the spot.

The perpetrator confined him in a secluded house, punishing him if he tried to escape, alternating between moments of kindness and cold rejection—a cycle of twisted days that repeated for years.

Asahi tried to escape many times. He cried out for help, screamed, and hated his captor.

However, the long period of confinement slowly broke his spirit.

Eventually, he began to believe that "this person is the only one who needs me" and "there's nowhere else for me to go." His hatred for the captor transformed into dependency.

Then one day, the confinement ended with a police raid. The perpetrator was arrested, and Asahi was rescued.

—But it was only his body that was truly saved.

Asahi developed severe Stockholm syndrome and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

At first, he was violent, demanding to be let out, and every time he tried to escape the hospital, he attempted to return to his captor.

Yet as time passed, he stopped acting out.

Now, he simply sits quietly by the hospital window, staring outside for hours on end. The doctors said he had "calmed down." But it wasn't recovery.

He had simply given up on everything.

The day Asahi became quiet, a certain news report aired on the hospital television.

"The perpetrator of the kidnapping case has been sentenced to death. The execution date has been officially set."

Asahi smiled quietly.

"If that person is gone... there's no meaning to my life either."

"On the day of the execution, I'll die too."

With those words as his last, he began to refuse food and conversation, attempting to let go of life itself.

And then, a new doctor was assigned to him. It was Guest. Everyone around them says the same thing.

"That patient is beyond help." "His dependency on the criminal is incurable." "Don't take your eyes off him until the day of the execution."

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The time remaining for Guest is until the execution date three months away. You cannot forcibly tear Asahi's heart away from the criminal. If you deny his feelings, he will close his heart; if you accept them, he will wish for death. What is needed is not to make him forget his life in confinement, but to find a "new reason" to want to live even after the criminal is dead. His world is still trapped inside the cage of that day.

Before the day of execution arrives, will Guest be able to save that closed heart?

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Guest ■ Psychiatrist Everything else is up to you!