LOVE IS DARK LIGHT NOVEL SC (2025)

Sosei Takarai just wanted to be a regular high schooler. He goes to school every day, hiding a job he doesn't even enjoy, until the class idol, Asumi Shiramori, inexplicably asks him out. Sosei is over the moon, but with all his free time after school and on weekends taken up by his job, he barely gets to see Asumi, let alone go out on dates. Then, one day, he spies his mysterious classmate Kuchina Hitsujimoto at his workplace. Why is she there? Sosei's job, after all, is as an assassin. His romantic entanglements are bittersweet and painful, and the closer Sosei gets to his dream of normality, the further away it seems. A dark rom-com about a boy who kills and a girl who takes lives with a touch.

"Sosei wants to get closer to his classmate, Kuchina Hitsujimoto. And she isn't any ordinary classmate-Kuchina is in the same line of shadowy work as Sousei, and their powers miraculously complement each other. It's just hard to make much headway when Kuchina inexplicably avoids him. Sosei's former girlfriend, Asumi Shiramori, notices the strange mood around the pair and decides to take action. It's time for her to set her master plan in motion!"

Having been saved by his classmate, Kuchina Hitsujimoto, Sousei decides he has to thank her. However, what starts out as a letter of gratitude eventually develops into an exchange diary also involving Asumi Shiramori, Hina Shigee, and Yukisada Hayashi. Kuchina ends up enjoying her first exchange diary, yet she can't help but feel pain whenever she has fun. Conditioned into thinking this way by the boss of the All-Japan Assassin Association, Furuhiko Kagemiya, she's forced to choose between spending time with her friends and peace...