You Can't Be In a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!

Yonosuke Sakai has two childhood friends who have always been his safe place, Shio Minamo and Akari Hiodoshi. He believes they can stay close forever as long as nobody crosses the line into romance. That plan dies the moment he notices the small signs, the jealousy, the rehearsed smiles, the way one confession can turn into a dare. Shio and Akari refuse to stay in the same comfortable roles, and Yonosuke keeps making clumsy choices that protect the past while hurting the present. As their circle pulls in other classmates, the trio has to learn how to be honest without losing the friendship that built them. The more Yonosuke insists on staying neutral, the more he becomes the center of the mess. A joke turns into a test, a simple outing becomes a showdown, and the three of them discover that growing up does not just add feelings, it changes the meaning of every shared memory. Nobody wants to be the first to say the friendship is changing, but it already has.