Yuka is a fourth-grader who barely registers on her classmates' radar. Navigating the complicated social dynamics among girls her age, she gradually grows close to Ibuki Yuta, a boy who attends the same calligraphy class — but before long, she finds herself consumed by a desire to make him her "toy." One day, she kisses him. They carry on their relationship — something between romance and control — all the way through middle school. A quietly devastating work by an author acclaimed for her unfli...
