Seishun Bakusou!

After a disastrous start to his high school life, Maruo has become a social outcast who supplements his income by secretly photographing female classmates and selling the images to male students. His isolation is compounded when he becomes fixated on Tabe, a perpetually scarred girl who endures relentless bullying from her peers. Although he feels a genuine desire to protect her, Maruo is paralyzed by the fear of becoming a target himself, leaving him trapped between cowardice and conscience. His internal conflict deepens as he recognizes the hypocrisy of his own actions; despite wanting to be Tabe’s savior, she remains one of the subjects of his exploitative voyeurism. This realization fuels an intense cycle of self-loathing that colors his daily existence with guilt and anxiety. Just as Maruo struggles to reconcile his moral failings with his protective instincts, a devastating truth emerges that shatters his fragile emotional state and pushes him to the absolute brink of despair.