Bokura wo Shihaisuru Kotoba

Sora and Tatsuki Mukaihara are stepbrothers bound by family ties rather than blood. When their parents died in an accident, it fell to the elder brother, Sora, to raise young Tatsuki on his own—a responsibility that forged an unshakable bond between them. Years later, their paths have diverged: Sora has become one of the most popular mystery novelists of his generation, while Tatsuki has struck out on his own as an editor at a women's magazine. Yet genuine independence proves elusive. Unable to bear solitude, Sora spends virtually all of his time at Tatsuki's apartment, steadily eroding the careful distance Tatsuki has tried to place between them. For Tatsuki harbors a secret that weighs on him with crushing guilt: his love for his brother has deepened into something far beyond what family should allow, and no amount of willpower can extinguish it. Determined to spare them both, he resolves to live a solitary life and keep his feelings buried forever. But Sora makes an unexpected move—agreeing to a series of interviews for Tatsuki's magazine on a single condition: that Tatsuki himself be assigned as his editor. Thrust back into constant closeness with the one person he cannot allow himself to love, Tatsuki watches his fragile resolve begin to crumble.