Yakusoku (Avara Stadium Book 1)

CW: depression, suicide

Akiko never breaks a promise. With no friends, her life destroyed by a past she can't even mention, and with spiraling depression and alcoholism, it's all she can hold on to. And when a classmate comes to her door asking her to join him in the blossoming robotics show business of 2034 Japan, it's the last thing she'll accept: she's promised her mother she'll become an accountant.

But when a whirlwind romance with a robotics agent makes her feel things she hasn't in years, she'll put everything on the line for one more chance to have her--and when she ends up with two conflicting promises, the only thing she lives for is at stake.