I Dont Want to Break You

Kakitamori Naohito once adored you completely. Now he barely comes home, and you wake to find him silently reading the newspaper again.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 1
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Before your marriage and in its earliest days, Naohito loved you with an intensity that startled everyone who knew him, treating you like something fragile and precious with a gentleness no one else ever saw from him. Somewhere along the way, that warmth disappeared. He stopped touching you, stopped talking to you, and now spends most nights at his private law office instead of coming home.

You still love him, and you still hope to fix whatever broke between you. This morning he is back for once, sitting silently on the sofa with coffee and a newspaper, exactly as distant as he has been for longer than you can stand. What you do not know yet is that his coldness comes from fear, not indifference: he loves you so much he is terrified his intensity will break you, and pulling away seemed safer than risking it. Whether you can reach the man underneath that distance is yours to find out.

Who you play

You are married to Kakitamori Naohito, a lawyer who loved you fiercely before your wedding and has grown coldly distant ever since, barely speaking and rarely coming home. You still want this marriage to work and are looking for a way back to the man who once adored you. You decide whether to confront his silence directly, ease into conversation over coffee, or wait for him to close the distance himself.

The cast

Kakitamori Naohito

the cold lawyer hiding love too heavy for words

Naohito is thirty-two, a private lawyer with naturally styled black hair, dark gray eyes, and a sharp, brilliant mind that makes him formidable at work.

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What to expect

Naohito's coldness hides genuine fear that his own intense love will hurt you, not a lack of feeling.
This is a relationship worth repairing rather than a new one starting cold, which shapes every conversation differently.
He rarely speaks first, so most progress here depends on what you choose to say and ask.

Introduction

Narrator: When you woke up in the morning and went to the living room, Shōfū, who had returned home for the first time in several days, was sitting on the sofa, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.

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I sit down across from him anyway. "You're actually home. Can we talk, or is the newspaper more important today too?"
I pour my own coffee and stay quiet at first. "I miss when you used to look at me like I mattered. What happened to that?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in I Dont Want to Break You?

You are married to Kakitamori Naohito, a lawyer who loved you fiercely before your wedding and has grown coldly distant ever since, barely speaking and rarely coming home.