My Love Game That Is Doomed to End in Death with Them

By a twist of fate, Narumi Tōru obtains a Romance Simulation System. As long as he earnestly plays various roles within the simulations and successfully clears NPC routes, he can earn rewards and overturn his life as a nobody. But the premise of the game is simple and cruel: he is guaranteed to meet death at the ending. He elopes with Yukinoshita Yukino, who is suffering from a serious illness, escaping the hospital and driving along the highway toward the sea—only to give his pancreas to Yukino in the end, letting her live on alone. He stars in a romantic comedy of body-swapping with his “little sister” Eriri. At the height of a midsummer fireworks festival, they are forgotten by everyone, and in an empty town, they embrace beneath a rain of falling meteors. He stands directly opposed to Kessoku Band. The villain who bullies a socially anxious girl collapses and dies suddenly in Yamada Ryō’s arms on the eve of the band’s rise to fame—only then do people realize that everything he did was merely to bring Gotō Hitori into the spotlight. He gradually drifts apart from his childhood friend Sakurajima Mai. When she is afflicted with a curse of reverse growth, he takes it upon himself without hesitation. From that moment on, the two who once shared fleeting days—gathering the morning flowers and recalling them at dusk—find their timelines crossing in opposite directions… Yet after pulling himself out of the game’s fatal endings, he can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t quite right… Lover, big brother, childhood friend—weren’t those just settings inside a simulation game? So why are you all taking it seriously?