【PC】誰ソ彼のシェイプシフター｜Tasogare no Shapeshifter

「あなたの理想の恋人になります。だからどうか、もう一度だけチャンスをください」

そう言って竹之内洋人の前に現れたのは、昨日別れたはずのメンヘラ彼女、河元ちせ――その姿をした別のナニカ。

影子と名乗る彼女の正体は『シェイプシフター』。

他の生物を喰らい、擬態することで社会に溶け込む影の怪異であるという。

ちせを取り込みつつも、吸収せずに体内に留め置いているという影子は、

期限付きで構わないから、あなたの彼女として生活してみたい。そうしてくれたら、無事にちせを解放する」と要求する。

そんな約束から始まった仮初の恋人関係であったが、いざ付き合ってみればちせ以上に波長が合う彼女。

影子との交流を通して、疲れ果てていた洋人の心は癒され、人を好きになる気持ちを、その充実感を思い出していく。

しかし故にこそ、いつかは向き合わなければならない。

目の前の彼女が、人とは違う理に生きる『異形の存在』である事実に。

そして、洋人を洋人たらしめている、瑞々しくも苦々しい記憶に……。

"I'll become your ideal lover. So please, give me one more chance."

Says the figure who appears before Takenouchi Hiroto: his mentally unstable girlfriend, Koumoto Chise, whom he broke up with the day before―or rather, something taking her form.

The girl, who calls herself Eiko, is a "Shapeshifter": a mysterious being that blends into society by devouring other creatures and mimicking them.

Although she has taken Chise into herself, Eiko claims she hasn't fully absorbed her, instead keeping her contained within her body. Her demand is simple: "Even if it's only for a limited time, I want to live as your girlfriend. If you do that, I'll let Chise go."

From that promise, a temporary relationship begins. But soon after they start dating, Hiroto realizes that he is more compatible with Eiko than he ever was with Chise. By spending time with this mysterious being, Hiroto's weary heart is healed, and he gradually remembers what it feels like to love someone.

But that is precisely why, one day, he will have to face the fact that the girl before him is an "inhuman existence," living by laws different from those of people.

And the bittersweet memories that made Hiroto who he is...

[Edited from Getchu]