Ame to Kiss

Growing up, Taiki Maeda was an unremarkable child who never quite fit in or attracted much attention. Determined to leave his awkward past behind and cultivate a sharp sense of style as an adult, he naturally gravitated toward the fashion industry. Before long, he found himself working as a sales attendant at a bustling shopping mall, surrounded by the polished aesthetic he had always admired from afar. It is within this stylish environment that Maeda develops feelings for someone entirely out of his league: Haruhisa Yagii, an employee working in the mall's main department. Yagii is everything Maeda is not—strikingly handsome, effortlessly kind, and warmly approachable with everyone he encounters. Maeda cannot help but deeply admire him, yet he remains painfully aware of his own perceived shortcomings, convinced that a man like Yagii could never return his affections. Resigned to quietly harboring his crush, Maeda believes his feelings are destined to remain one-sided. However, his careful restraint shatters when a clumsy, ill-timed question unexpectedly shifts the dynamic between them. Instead of brushing him off, Yagii surprises him completely by stealing his first kiss, turning Maeda’s quiet longing into something far more complicated and thrilling than he ever dared to imagine.