Flowers of Evil, Volume 7

Takao and Sawa have been forcibly separated. Takao is now living in suburbs of the big city. His parents have new lives in a small apartment and their past for the most part has been forgotten. Now and then little cracks appear in that facade, but for the most part they are playing their roles as a normal happy family.

Takao is in a new school and your average model student. While he is just as awkward, he's made some friends and is even occasionally being asked to be social. Even more intriguing is the fact that Takao might have already found himself someone to open up to. Like Sawa, this person can see that there is more to Takao than meets the eye. But in this case it is her who reintroduces him to literature.