"What is this smell?" Kazuuma noticed the pungent odor. The source was his mother, Nao, sleeping on the living room sofa. "Mom must be tired." She had started a part-time job to help with the household finances and seemed to have fallen asleep right after coming home. "She didn't even take off her socks..." Her soles were slightly dirty. As he approached to take them off, the smell grew stronger. "I want to smell more." Kazuuma was overwhelmed by an irrational urge and couldn't suppress the urgent impulse...
