[OS tokku (Shikimura)] To my dearest you {Chin²}

When young Kei blurts out a love confession and is met with surprised laughter, the moment softens into something far more tender—a quiet encounter where his teacher murmurs that he doesn't have to do anything at all, leaving the flustered boy breathless at his first glimpse of an adult's body. Woven through the intimacy is the teacher's own story, flashbacks of a difficult childhood that drove him to study child welfare so he could lift up kids like himself, and the day a long-awaited school job finally made his life feel like it had begun. A bittersweet, blushing romance between two people who each needed exactly the love the other was able to give.