…One of the monsters is me.
In the prologue, it states that: “I won’t tell you whether it has a happy ending or a tragic ending…neither you nor I nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic.”
Yunjae (born with alexithymia) struggles to feel or understand emotions. Taught by his mother and grandmother to fake emotions, he finds it difficult to connect with others. Yunjae is a teenager, so you can imagine how his condition is quickly seen by his peers - and he is soon targeted by the bully Gon. But they soon form an unlikely bond.
A boy that feels nothing meets a boy who feels too much.