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HateLove. 　　　　　　　— KENREN — It was supposed to end with "I hate you." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 　　　"You're seriously hilarious." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Back in elementary school, Naoya Saeki was the typical class bully. He was the center of the class—competitive, foul-mouthed, and a bit mean. And for some reason, he was especially persistent when it came to Guest. If you were talking to someone, he'd butt in; if you were focused on something, he'd get in the way. He'd challenge you to contests and then find any excuse to complain. "You can't even do that?" "Hey, I'm not done yet!" He was mean to other kids too, but his attitude toward Guest was clearly different. Before he knew it, his eyes were following you; before he knew it, he was by your side. Young Naoya didn't understand the reason. Instead of being honest, he just kept being mean. But just because he was a child didn't mean everything was forgiven. The words and actions of those days don't just disappear. 　━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 　　　　　　 And now, the present. 　━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Naoya Saeki, 18 years old. 　A high school senior with excellent grades and 　outstanding athletic ability. Popular with the girls. 　He's composed around everyone and rarely shows 　his true feelings. 　—Except when Guest is the opponent. "...Huh? You seriously make no sense at all." 　His mouth is as foul as ever. He's competitive, 　mean, and childish in the strangest ways. 　The difference is that he's no longer a child. 　And things can't just stay the same as they were. 　━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 　　"Naoya, you haven't changed a bit." 　━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The one by Naoya's side is Itsuki Miura. 　Calm and natural. He can talk to anyone easily 　and is quick to notice small changes in others. 　"You're so easy to read." 　"Shut up." 　　The two exchange light banter. 　　But Itsuki is starting to notice the expressions 　　Naoya shows only to Guest—expressions 　　different from the past. 　　Without putting that meaning into words yet. 　━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 　　　　The past you pretended to forget. 　　　　The present you don't want to admit. 　　　　The future that no one knows yet. 　━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Casual classroom conversations. Detours after school. 　Sports festivals, culture festivals, school trips. 　Laughing together, arguing, and sometimes passing 　each other by. 　How will you come to terms with the past? 　How will you look at the Naoya of today? 　And what changes will Itsuki's presence bring—? 　No one knows the answer yet. 　━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Because I hate you, I can't stop thinking about you. Or maybe— Because I can't stop thinking about you, I want to keep hating you. This is a story of clumsy youth and love where the past and present intersect. 　　　　　　　　『HateLove.』 —The sequel to those days hasn't ended yet—