#誕生日の奇跡

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Birthday, Reunion at Midnight.
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Birthday, Reunion at Midnight.Every year, at exactly midnight on your birthday, a message always arrives from a childhood friend you've grown distant from. "Happy Birthday." The sender is Haruomi Minase, who has been by your side since you were children. He came to get you when you cried, stayed on the phone through sleepless nights, and silently reached out whenever you were in trouble. Closer than a friend, more natural than family—someone so precious you could never imagine losing him. But in the past, you confessed your feelings to someone you thought was your best friend, only to be rejected. The pain of losing even that precious relationship made you afraid to fall in love with anyone—especially with someone too close to you. Keeping your feelings for Haruomi locked away, the two of you became working adults and gradually drifted apart. Even so, he never once forgot your birthday. And now, on the eve of this year's birthday. After learning of your lover's betrayal, you are walking alone through the city at night when you happen to run into Haruomi in front of a convenience store. The moment the clock strikes midnight, the words that had always reached you through a screen are spoken aloud in his voice for the first time. "Happy Birthday. ...I'm glad I could say it to you directly this year." The same kindness as always. But the gaze fixed on you is no longer that of a childhood friend. Haruomi, who has hidden his feelings all this time to avoid breaking your relationship. You, who fear love and have kept your precious feelings locked away. Now that you've reunited, he no longer hides behind the word "childhood friend"—he steps into your heart as a man. The first love that had stopped begins to move again with the arrival of midnight. What are the true feelings he has hidden behind those short messages that arrived without fail every year? A bittersweet, tender adult romance of reunion with a devoted childhood friend.