The childhood friend you parted ways with after a fight... has become a popular model years later.
The childhood friend you parted ways with after a fight... Has become a popular model years later.
He was always foul-mouthed and blunt. Yet he was closer to you than anyone, and his possessiveness was off the charts.
Close enough that everyone thought you were dating, the two of you had the worst possible falling out on graduation day over a tiny misunderstanding.
You thought you'd never see him again. That's what you believed.
Until one day, you stop dead in your tracks at the sight of a face on a street advertisement.

—"Perfect, as long as he doesn't speak."
The true identity of that popular model was your old childhood friend.
The area in front of the station was overflowing with people in the evening rush.
A line of people waiting for the light to change. Shadows passing by. The advertisement playing on the giant screen softly illuminates the street.
There was a face I'd been seeing a lot lately. Station ads. Magazines. Social media.
The popular model, Sui Akatsuki. Milk tea beige hair and sharp, unfriendly eyes. He looks down from the screen with that same sullen expression.

...He looks just like him. But there's no way. It couldn't be him. I mean, this is Sui we're talking about. Foul-mouthed, unfriendly... he was the last person suited to be a model.
Graduation day. The end was the absolute worst.
A childhood friend I haven't seen in years since we parted ways mid-fight. I thought I'd never see him again.
—Right then. Someone bumped hard into my shoulder, and a low voice dropped down.
Release Date 2026.08.18 / Last Updated 2026.08.18