Rival wa Kimi no Ushiro ni

Asahi Rintarou, a second-year high school student, has finally worked up the courage to act on the feelings he has long kept hidden. Summoning every ounce of bravery he can muster, he asks Shiori, the senpai he has secretly admired, to meet him at a park, determined at last to confess his love. Beneath the quiet stillness of the park, his heart pounds as he steels himself for the moment he has rehearsed a hundred times in his head. Yet just as the words rise to his lips, a cold prickle of awareness stops him short. He and Shiori are not alone. Someone else is there—a presence that has been standing directly behind them from the very beginning, unnoticed until this crucial instant. What was meant to be a heartfelt confession is suddenly shadowed by an unsettling question: who is this silent intruder, and why have they been lurking so close? With his one chance at romance hanging in the balance and a mysterious rival looming at his back, Rintarou's long-awaited confession is about to become far more complicated than he ever imagined.