Aoume Ao

I should have wanted to go back to my friends. I want to get closer than that. Hayakawa Akira, a third-year high school student, changes seats and sits next to his childhood friend Kuno Sumika. Akira, who has many friends and is active, and Sumiya, who likes astronomy and is quiet. The two grew up in the house next door from an early age and were their best friends despite their opposite personalities. However, when I was in elementary school, I had a trivial quarrel, and I couldn't say "I'm sorry" to each other, so I was estranged. Akira feels awkward to start preparing for the school festival in the same group, Sumiya has been kind to me as before ...

Even if we're both beta and even if we're not a fated pair, it'll be fine. Our relationship won't change, ever—Hibiki is a salaryman who has been living together with his high school sweetheart, Koushiro, for 10 years. When they had just met each other, they were convinced that they were a fated pair, but their gender tests revealed that they were both beta. Even though other gay couples can be blessed if they are a "fated pair," it vexes them they can't even hold hands in front of people. They tell themselves that if they love each other, all will be fine, but trivial things make them more anxious each day... But they hear about a misdiagnosis of the gender test one day...!?

Asakura Kai has come to the marriage ceremony of the man he once loved. By his side is his former highschool classmate and now sex friend, Iguchi Keisuke. Kai, who was nursing feelings which had no place to go at the time, was offered a relationship which was convenient for both of them by Keisuke. Ten years have passed, with Kai unable to ask Keisuke about his true feelings. What are Keisuke’s feelings, standing by my side right now…….? Touched by his kindness, Kai has fallen for Keisuke over the years, but he also can’t bring himself to break off the comfortable relationship they have now. In the never-stopping flow of time, I experience the end and beginning of love, with you. A sensitive story of overflowing desires.