Love and Lies

恋と嘘

Yukari Nejima has loved his classmate Misaki Takasaki in silence for years, and in a near-future Japan where the government assigns every citizen a genetically optimized marriage partner at sixteen, that silence feels permanent. On the eve of his birthday he finally confesses, and Misaki admits she feels the same — but hours later his government notice arrives, pairing him with Lilina Sanada, a cheerful stranger who knows nothing of his feelings for Misaki.