Kure-nai

Shinkuro Kurenai handles disputes for the formidable Benika while attending high school. His latest assignment is unlike his usual work: sheltering Murasaki, a young girl taken from the powerful Kuhouin family.

In his modest apartment and among its unconventional neighbors, Murasaki encounters ordinary freedoms her secluded upbringing denied her. Their awkward arrangement grows into trust, but her family intends to reclaim her, forcing Shinkuro to confront what protection really requires when an entire household treats a child’s future as its property.