四畳半のいばら姫 (Series) favorite_border

[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: A fateful encounter that will change your life from rock bottom...?　Shinra Kobayashi is poor, parentless, and friendless. One day, Rai, a popular boy at school, asks him to be his friend. Shinra is repulsed by Rai's curious approach, but in order to get out of his rock-bottom life, he decides to be more calculating and forms a partnership with Rai...?

(Translator: DeepL)