Before I Decay

"Behind perfection lurks the rot-before the unraveling, there was the first crack."

Reira Kenmochi has the perfect life on paper-wealth, prestige, and parents who demand nothing less than perfection. But beneath the polished surface, she's a girl suffocating under their control, hungry for something real. When three boys stumble into her world, rebellion takes root-and every secret she hides pushes her closer to a decay she can't escape.

Before the lights and the stage. Before the fame and the fractures. There was only the girl who refused to be contained.

Reira Kenmochi has everything money can buy: a driver waiting at the gates, a family name that opens doors, and parents with a future carved out for her in stone. But the new school in Kanagawa feels like a cage, and Reira has no intention of playing the obedient daughter. With a black wig, piercings, and a sharp smile, she slips between the lines of who she's supposed to be and who she really is.

It doesn't take long before three boys-charismatic, curious, and just as restless as she is-are caught in her orbit. With them, she tastes freedom, rebellion, and danger for the first time. But every secret she keeps pulls her closer to the edge of exposure, and every choice she makes threatens to crack the perfect image her parents demand she maintain.

This is where the story begins: before the unraveling, before the final act-
this is Before I Decay.