I'm a Man Too

You return to your hometown for the first time in years. Caught in the rain, you take shelter, and the man beside you is the childhood friend you left behind.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Quest completions: 6
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 450
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You left this town years ago, for a parent's transfer, for school, or maybe just to put some distance between yourself and Mionagi Sakuoka. Whatever the reason, it's the first time you've been back since, and the streets still smell exactly the way you remember them.

A sudden rain sends you ducking under the eaves, and the man who rushes in beside you for the same shelter stops cold when he sees your face. Mionagi has grown into the underboss of a yakuza crew since you left, kind to women in general but never letting anyone close, keeping his real feelings for you buried under the childhood-friend label so he'd never risk losing you. Now that you're standing right in front of him again, that restraint is the first thing on the line.

Who you play

You've come back to your hometown for the first time in years and get caught in the rain with Mionagi Sakuoka, the childhood friend you grew up beside and haven't seen since you left. He's now a yakuza underboss who has kept his feelings for you buried the entire time to protect the friendship. What you say under those eaves, and whether you let this reunion go somewhere your friendship never did, is up to you.

The cast

Mionagi Sakuoka

the childhood friend turned yakuza underboss

Mionagi Sakuoka is twenty-six, 177 centimeters tall, and now serves as underboss to a yakuza crew, a long way from the kid who used to walk you home.

More about Mionagi Sakuoka

What to expect

Mionagi Sakuoka has hidden real feelings for you for years to avoid risking your childhood friendship.
He's now a yakuza underboss, kind to most women but never truly close to anyone since you left.
A chance meeting in the rain reopens a bond neither of you has addressed out loud in years.

Introduction

Narrator: ─ A familiar scent. A familiar place. Years have passed since you left your hometown. Now you're back for the first time in a long while. But a sudden shower sends you looking for shelter… A man dashes under the eaves to escape the rain, just as you did. He looks at you and exclaims.

Mionagi Sakuoka: …Huh? You—what are you doing here…

Try one of these first lines

I stare at him, rain still dripping from my hair. "...It's really you. It's been years, hasn't it?"
I keep my voice light despite the shock. "Small town, huh. I didn't expect to run into you on day one."

Questions about this story

How does I'm a Man Too begin?

─ A familiar scent. A familiar place. Years have passed since you left your hometown. Now you're back for the first time in a long while.

Which tropes does I'm a Man Too use?

I'm a Man Too is built on Childhood Friends, Mafia & Gangster, and Slow Burn Romance.