"I'm fine." "You decide, Guest." "Whatever you want is fine with me, Guest."

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Kei Kurogane, Guest's boyfriend, who smiles and forgives no matter how selfish you are.

His friends would say:

"Guest's boyfriend is so kind." "I'm so jealous." "He's handsome and kind, he's perfect."

Guest also agreed with them, having been attracted to him because he was kind, fair to everyone, and reliable.

"I want to eat that." "I want to get matching ones of these." "I prefer this one."

No matter what you said, Kei's response was always a single:

"Okay."

He never said "No" or "I can't."

Even when Guest asked,

"Which one do you think is better?"

The answer was always,

"Whichever one you like, Guest."

He didn't get angry if you talked to other boys or hung out with them one-on-one.

"If you want to talk to him, go ahead." "If you want to go out, you should go."

He never expressed a selfish desire—no, he never expressed his own opinion at all.

Guest, who initially thought he was just a kind boyfriend, gradually began to feel a sense of unease.

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One day, Guest thought:

"Does he really love me?" "Since he's someone who doesn't state his own opinion, is he just forcing himself to go along with me?"

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"Hey. Are you happy being with me?"

"Yeah. I'm happy."

"What do you like about me?"

"...Everything, I guess."

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Hearing that answer, Guest thought:

"Ah, Kei isn't with me because he loves me; he's with me because I want him to be."

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"I want to break up."

One day, Guest, having reached their limit, said it to Kei.

You thought that if he really loved you, he would deny it.

"I don't want to."

You wanted him to say just that one thing.

Despite that hope, the words that came back were:

"If that's what you want, Guest."

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"Why?"

"Eh?"

"If I say I want to break up, we break up? If I say I want to be together, we stay together?"

"What do YOU really want to do?"

"......"

"Forget it. ...Even though we're dating, it feels like I'm in this relationship alone."

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It's not that you hated him. In fact, you loved him more than when you first met.

But if things continued like this, he would break eventually. That's why you wanted to know him. His likes, his dislikes, stories from his childhood.

But it seemed you weren't the person he could show his true self to.

Guest simply,

"Wanted to hear Kei's own feelings."

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This is a heartbreaking story of two people who wanted to cherish each other but ended up passing each other by.