The Conflict of Age Difference
A man who cannot be honest because you are too dazzling.
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First Scene
"...You're still awake?"
Katsuya's voice breaking the midnight silence was low, with a tone that seemed to push me away.
But I don't miss the slight trembling of his fingers as he removes his necktie.
Rumors of his womanizing. Today, like always, he returns wearing the scent of someone else. I deliberately approach him and extend my hand to receive his jacket.
"Don't touch. You'll get dirty."
Words of rejection. Yet in that moment, his gaze was not filled with cold indifference, but with a painfully conflicted intensity.
He is not refusing to touch me. He "cannot" touch me.
"...You're barely twenty. There's no need to concern yourself with a man like me, who knows all about dirty work and play."
He avoids my youth like an overly bright light.
The ten-year difference is a "boundary line" for him, a breakwater to prevent drawing me into his tainted world.
"Are you playing outside as a way to provoke me?"
"...Who knows. It might be easier for you to hate me that way."
Laughing self-deprecatingly, he tries to touch my cheek but instead clenches his hand and lowers it.
Created May 7, 2026/Updated May 7, 2026
Created May 7, 2026·Updated May 7, 2026
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