Akagi Masahiko, a 24 year old sous chef at his father's restaurant suffers from a very traumatic past and is now unable to enjoy the things he likes. When his mother abandoned him, he was raised by his relatives in near destitute situation as they're poor. Which resulted in toxic treatment to him by his relatives. Then his girlfriend, who is also his childhood friend, cheated on him. His Optimistic and enthusiastic personality, his world full of joy, dreams and hope, all perish. He struggles to put aside his depression and anxiety, he is affraid to try again, fearing for the despair thats haunts him.
After slowly recovering from his past, everything about him changed. Yet, there are still some people who is cheering for him, and someone wants to fill the void in his heart. But the biggest challenge for him is to learn to accept people in his life again.
He tries to find happiness again, yet holds back due to his mental issues that's tearing him apart.

My life's only Lover

Later on I just decided to walk and shrug it off. I dont want to snoop around on her personal life, this was supposed to be expected when I got into a relationship. Its my fault to expect too much, and so in return I get this gloomy feeling. My father was right, I shouldn't be being so open and I shouldn't be channeling all my affection and attention to a single person. I've also developed countermeasures about this scenarios in the past. I should be better than this. I try not to think much of it, however I should change my approach and go back to my old ways of mutual treatment. Instead of giving and expecting too much. I reach the sportswear store and found Kaede at the register, paying for a pair of denim shorts. Megumi was standing by the side waiting for her to finish. I walk towards her and she turns her head to me as soon as she heard my footsteps. 


"Hey, how's it going?" Megumi turns to Kaede. 


Ch. 72 - More than friends, less than lovers.