“Former novelist Keigo engages in substitute sexual encounters with Saku, who pretends to be Keigo's childhood crush Ryuuji, while Keigo struggles to understand Saku's true motivations.”
Please Tell Me "Good-Bye".
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Former novelist Keigo engages in substitute sexual encounters with Saku, who pretends to be Keigo's childhood crush Ryuuji, while Keigo struggles to understand Saku's true motivations.
"Today I'm going to have sex again. With my crush's younger brother." Keigo, a former aspiring novelist, has long had a crush on his childhood friend, Ryuuji. Unable to forget a joke that Ryuuji made in the past, he even developed a fetish for wearing black tights. The only person who knows both "secrets" is Saku, an art student aspiring to be a cameraman—who is Takashi's younger brother. To help comfort Keigo's bottled-up feelings, Saku calls himself "Ryuuji" and has sex with Keigo as a substitute for him. "I want you to write a novel" being the reason Saku has sex with him, Keigo can't seem to determine what his true intentions are... (Source: Shodensha, translated)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Published Feb 2023 – Dec 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M78043 catalog