My Perfect Childhood Friend

High school student Itaru Sagara has a perfect childhood friend—Reika Atarashi. Beautiful, talented, and flawless at everything she does, she never brags and is admired by everyone as a truly perfect girl with a pure personality. To someone as average as Itaru, she’s an overwhelmingly outstanding friend, and her presence was something he took pride in. —That’s a lie. Having always been compared to the exceptional Reika who was constantly by his side, Itaru wanted nothing more than to get away from her. Being with Reika made him feel miserable, as if his very reason for existing was slipping away. It was during such a time that he met another girl—at a cram school where Reika wasn’t prese...