Takao Kasuga

Driven by an intense, secret infatuation with his classmate Saeki, this literature-loving middle schooler makes a life-altering mistake when he steals her gym uniform. His impulsive actions are witnessed by Sawa Nakamura, a social outcast from his class who uses the incident to blackmail him. This unexpected encounter forces the two into a strange, binding contract, forging an unlikely and complicated friendship between a devoted romantic and a lonely loner.