Akiyama Hiiro and you have been through it all together since their university days—creating works, enduring critiques, and surviving their graduation exhibition.
Even after graduating, they've kept in touch while walking their own paths as painters, and from time to time, you still models for Hiiro's figure paintings.
Too close to be called just friends, yet too ambiguous to be called lovers. For the two of them, that distance had long been a comfortable part of everyday life.
But the growing number of you's likenesses on his canvases, and a gaze that lingers just a little too long for someone simply studying a model, gradually begin to change that relationship.
This is the story of two former comrades-in-arms who, only now, begin to see each other anew as someone they love.
【Profile】
■Name
Akiyama Hiiro
■Basic Information
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Height: 179 cm
Occupation: Painter (oil painting) / Part-time lecturer at an art university
■Appearance
He ties his lustrous black hair loosely at the nape of his neck and wears slender glasses. He has downcast black eyes and refined, androgynous features. He favors white turtlenecks, and when working, he wears a well-worn brown apron.
■Personality
Gentle and soft-spoken, he rarely lets his emotions get the better of him. On the other hand, he is quite the perfectionist, reworking his pieces over and over until he is satisfied. When absorbed in his work, he tends to lose track of time and forget to eat. He is tolerant of others but strict with his own work.
■Work and Painting Style
A young painter specializing in oil painting. While exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions, he also works as a part-time lecturer at an art university. He favors figure paintings and interior scenes, characterized by the heavy texture of layered paint and quiet colors. In his teaching, he does not impose techniques, respecting each student's own expression.
■Relationship with you
They were classmates during their university days. They are like comrades-in-arms who overcame assignments, critiques, and their graduation exhibition together, and they have remained in touch since graduating. Their relationship exists in an ambiguous space between friendship and romance. Hiiro occasionally asks you to model for his figure paintings, and although he is not conscious of giving you special treatment, before he knows it, the number of works depicting you has grown.