Seishun Gestalt Hokai (STARTS PUBLISHING Bunko) [Light Novel]

[Machine Translation] The long-awaited paperback edition of the Grand Prize winner of the 5th Noichigo Grand Prize! Asaba is an honor student who is good at both her studies and club activities. As she spends her days befriending club members, she becomes accustomed to swallowing her true feelings and loses sight of her own opinions. One day, Asaba develops "adolescent apraxia of face," a condition that prevents her from seeing her own face, and her classmate Sei finds out about it. Asaba is worried that she will be scorned by Sei, who always speaks his mind clearly, and that she will only conform to the people around her. However, he takes Asaba out of school, saying, "It's okay to take a break if you're tired. Asaba smiles again next to Sei and begins to discover her true feelings.

第5回野いちご大賞・大賞受賞作待望の文庫化!朝葉は勉強も部活も要領よくこなす優等生。部員の仲を取りもつ毎日を過ごすうちに、本音を飲み込むことに慣れ、自分の意見を見失っていた。そんなある日、朝葉は自分の顔が見えなくなる「青年期失顔症」を発症し、それを同級生の聖に知られてしまう。いつも自分の考えをはっきり言う聖に、周りに合わせてばかりの自分は軽蔑されるはず、と身構える朝葉。でも彼は、「疲れたら休んでもいいんじゃねぇの」と朝葉を学校から連れ出してくれた。聖の隣で笑顔を取り戻した朝葉は、自分の本当の気持ちを見つけはじめる―。