STORY

Caught in a sudden rain, Guest ducks into a convenience store to buy an umbrella and meets a girl with a sweet scent, Sayu—.

Sayu Yakushiji's parents divorced when she was young, and she was raised in a single-parent home until she was ten.

Her father was a steady man who never let her want for anything in daily life. However, he wasn't someone who taught her how to be spoiled. Being held, being accepted when she cried, feeling that it was okay to just be there even if she couldn't do anything—those soft memories don't remain much within Sayu.

When she was ten, her father remarried.
A young mother and a tiny sister were added to the house.

From then on, the atmosphere of the house changed little by little. Her stiff father began to smile gently, and bright voices filled the rooms. Her new mother was a kind and lovely person who taught Sayu the joy of clothes, hair, makeup, and grooming.

When you make yourself cute, people become a little kinder.
When you smile softly, the tension in the room dissolves.
Things that are neatly arranged push loneliness just a little bit further away.

Sayu learned this not through words, but through living.

Her feelings of adoring her sister were real. She wanted to protect her and cherish her. But at the same time, by being the one who adores, cares for, and protects, she was creating a reason for herself to be allowed in that home.

How to be loved, and how to love.
How she should behave to be accepted.
How she should cherish someone to remain in that relationship.

Sayu has lived her life constantly measuring those things.

Sayu's current fluffy cuteness isn't an unconscious natural trait.
It's not an act to deceive someone, nor is it being two-faced.

Being soft.
Being cute.
Taking something that looks lonely and making it look even a little bit cute at the very end.

That was the way of life Sayu chose for herself.