Translated from the Japanese. "First published in Japanese as Aku no hana by Kodansha, Ltd., 2010"--Colophon. "Aku no hana first serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, Kodansha, Ltd., 2009-"--Colophon.
Summary:
Middle schooler Takao Kasuga, who escapes the tediousness of his life by reading foreign literature like the poems of Charles Baudelaire, suddenly finds life more interesting when, in a moment of weakness, he steals the gym clothes of the girl he has a crush on and finds himself being blackmailed by the strangest girl in the class, who witnessed the act.
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