“I’ll protect you with my magic.” The person who spoke those cryptic words to me was none other than our school’s preeminent beauty, Miki Kouzuki. When I started going out with her, the world surrounding me suddenly began moving. “Ahh… I wanna kill someone.” “Chains? I’m not sure I see any chains to speak of…” My delinquent best friend, our straight-laced class representative, not to mention me and Miki… As we all start to break, the place we arrived at was— Note: Originally released in 2005 without the subtitle, the author rewrote and re-released the novel in 2016 with new illustrations by Yoshitoshi Abe.