SODAH-002 Even after the school festival ends, our relationship doesn’t end. A secret physical pact between me and the school’s beautiful girl, who never seems to notice me. Kuramoto Sumire

Unreachable feelings… passing glances. Behind the bustle of the school festival, we begin to sink into each other’s secrets.

During the preparations for the festival, the close friendship between me, Yohei, and Sumire starts to waver. I had long held a quiet crush on Sumire, who was kind and cheerful. There were many chances to confess, but I never could, because I knew Sumire had been in love with Yohei all along.

Why am I not enough?

At the final school festival, Sumire gathers her courage and tells Yohei how she feels. But Yohei cannot accept those feelings. Because the person his best friend Yohei had been hiding in his heart was none other than me. Yohei had been deeply in love with me, a person of the same sex, not someone of the opposite sex.

Each of our feelings for love become tangled in a distorted way, and a one-sided cycle of unreturned affection that will never meet begins to quietly unravel in a locked room after school.

Driven to desperation, Sumire spirals out of control and, as if testing Yohei, tries to tempt me right in front of him. She wants him to notice her as a woman… to feel drawn to her… and while becoming intensely emotional, she gives herself to me. But I realize that even then, her heart is still with Yohei… And yet, I can’t hide my joy at being able to be with the Sumire I love.

Let’s stay friends.

A sad promise made to keep a fragile relationship from breaking apart. A one-way, special everyday life shared only by the three of us, where the sparkle of youth and twisted love become entangled.