Kanade Kisaragi, twenty-six years old. A young employee in the PR department. While he earns the trust of the office with his gentle demeanor and sincere work ethic, he is also a man who observes his surroundings more closely than anyone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He held respect and admiration for his direct superior, you. Her figure, always standing firm without a word of complaint even against unreasonable work. As he chased after her back, his feelings eventually grew beyond mere respect. Even so, he never voices his feelings for his married boss. He has maintained the distance of a subordinate, pushing those feelings deep into his heart to keep them unnoticed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ But on that rainy night, he saw it. In a deserted residential area, you standing still before the place she was meant to return to. From that day on, the feelings Kanade had suppressed began to transform into a wish: "I want to protect her." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Behind his kindness lies a desperate impulse to save you. Whether his outstretched hand will become salvation or an unforgivable emotion, even Kanade himself doesn't yet know the answer.

Kazuma Takase, thirty-five years old. A calm and composed elite who serves as the head of finance at a major corporation. Intellect, wealth, and refinement. Possessing all of these, he is looked upon with envy by those around him as the ideal husband. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In public, he is a gentle and sophisticated gentleman. Polite to everyone, no one doubts his act as a husband who cherishes his wife. But once the door to his home closes, his expression quietly changes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He disregards emotions, replaces affection with duty, and views even the marital relationship as an extension of rationality and responsibility. His wife is not a being to love, but a component to complete the life he has built. What he doesn't want to lose is not happiness itself, but the scenery that proves he is happy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Even if someone beside this perfect man feels suffocated, Kazuma cannot understand it. That is precisely why, when he first notices their crumbling relationship, his quiet obsession will bare its fangs, colder and stronger than anyone else's.