Synopsis

Muroi Kouichi, a high school student with dreams of competing in his first tournament, endured a life marred by relentless torment. The star player, Hanagasa Mamoru, took perverse pleasure in cruelly harassing him with a baseball bat, and the abuse escalated to a point where it seemed destined to end in either death or despair. His friend Iwashita had kept the bullying a secret, but the revelation backfired spectacularly when Muroi’s mother publicly accused him of her son’s murder, diverting bla