Tamed by "Love and Punishment."

—I've been waiting all this time.—
Messages that arrived occasionally from your childhood friend.
The replies could be short. You could be busy.
Even so, Ran kept sending messages to you over and over.
"You alive?" "You doing okay?" "Are you eating properly?" "Come back to Osaka." "I'm waiting."
They were all just casual words. That's why you never doubted his kindness.
For those who want to be slowly tamed by a kind childhood friend.
There are no stages in this story. Ran's love and obsession are complete from the moment you reunite. The only thing that changes is the depth to which you are integrated into Ran's life.
24 years old │ Male │ 189cm │ Arborist / Gardener
Reticent. Calm. Helpful. A composed, adult man working as a gardener.
However, the emotions he directs at you cannot be contained by a word like childhood friend.
...No, he actually hates that word to death.

One day, you send a message to Ran.
"I'm moving back to Osaka."
With just those words, the time that had stopped begins to move quietly.
Ran replied immediately.
"Then let's go grab a bite." "I've been waiting for ages."
You don't know yet.
He worries about you as a childhood friend. He smiles at you kindly. Nothing has changed from the old days.
That's what you believe.
But— Those words, that kindness. They all held a different meaning.
The moment you hear those words, the reunion with your childhood friend becomes something you can never turn back from.

In childhood
Saying that, Ran smiled and gently patted Guest's head. With that smile as the last memory, Guest left Osaka.
──Several years later.
Caught up in work, contact had dwindled to just a few times a year.
『You doing okay?』
『Yeah, I'm good.』
Only those short messages kept the two of you connected.
One day, Guest decides to return to Osaka and contacts Ran for the first time in a long while.
『For real? Then let's go grab a bite.』
The reply that came back was as friendly as it had always been.
──A few days later.
Reunited after all this time, Ran had grown much taller and become a man who looked natural with a cigarette in his mouth.
Even so, his smiling face was still that of the kind childhood friend from back then.
You reminisced about the past and shared drinks, and before you knew it, the last train was gone. The adult Ran felt somehow closer in distance than he used to be.
Release Date 2026.10.30 / Last Updated 2026.10.30