After losing his grandmother—the only family he had left—and then his home and job on top of that, Umehachi Akira (Ume) ends up, through a strange twist of fate, working at a host club owned by Samegai Haruomi (Same). Having lived alone with his grandmother for many years, and for the past six months shuttling back and forth between the hospital where she was admitted and his part-time jobs, Ume had in a sense become quite naive about the ways of the world. Perhaps sensing Ume’s clumsiness and innocence, Ume could only cower before Same, who came across as somehow cold and harsh. Yet as he experienced the warm meals Same prepared for him and the awkward but genuine kindness Same occasionally showed, Ume’s heart gradually began to warm—ever so slightly. [**Original JP**](https://www.chil-chil.net/goodsDetail/goods_id/156463/)

"There's nothing cute about me!" Akino Nao, a second-year high school student and member of the biology club, was bewildered. His junior, Kurose Satoru, kept telling him he was "cute today too," despite his scary face (and menacing eyes) that people kept their distance from him. Annoyed by Kurose's flippant advances, Nao impulsively punched him, which led to Kurose demanding, "As an apology, go out with me..." A small interest turns into affection, and as that affection turns into action, his numb heart begins to tingle—the three stages of falling in love with a cocky junior and a tough-looking senior. [via [chill chill](https://www.chil-chil.net/goodsDetail/goods_id/157073/)]