“Gay teen Niko, saved from suicide by Sakae, becomes Nicole; years later, Sakae returns, ignoring Niko's love confession.”
Itoshi no Nicole
愛しのニコール
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Gay teen Niko, saved from suicide by Sakae, becomes Nicole; years later, Sakae returns, ignoring Niko's love confession.
Fourteen-year-old Niko is treated as a ‘disease’ for being gay in his countryside town, and decides to commit suicide. But that summer night, he is saved by the carefree attitude of Sakae, a young boy visiting from a faraway city, and starts acting as the trans character ‘Nicole’ to protect himself from bullying. A few years later, Sakae reappears before Niko as a transfer student. He treats Niko, who had reduced himself to playing the eccentric gay, with honesty and kindness, but doesn’t take Niko’s confession crammed with feelings for his fleeting first love seriously, instead making a request for romantic advice himself… (Source: NovelUpdates)
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A Light novel Publication
- Format 1 vol ch × vol
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M45051 catalog