Koushiki Furin

Fumiya’s marriage looked perfect from the outside—a loving husband, a devoted wife, and a home filled with quiet affection. Yet behind closed doors, an unspoken rift had taken root. Though he adored his partner with all his heart, Fumiya found himself physically unable to perform during their most intimate moments, a failure that haunted him with each passing night. The couple had no children, and the weight of that absence was magnified daily by the relentless pressure of relatives who saw their childless union as a personal slight against tradition. Their love, once a refuge, began to feel like a fragile vessel straining under the expectations of everyone around them. Then the government intervened, not with counseling or compromise, but with absolute force. Without warning, the state tore Fumiya and his wife apart, reassigning each to a complete stranger as a mandatory cohabitant. This was no mere social experiment—it was state-sanctioned infidelity, a brutal policy enacted under the guise of curbing the nation's plummeting birth rate. Forced to share a home and a bed with an unfamiliar "new partner," Fumiya finds himself trapped in a dizzying moral contradiction: to remain faithful to a wife he can no longer touch, or to comply with a system that demands he betray her for the sake of national survival. As the lines between duty, desire, and desperation blur, he must navigate a world where love has become a liability and loyalty a crime against the state.