When you were a child, your parents divorced. Through every birthday, scraped knee, school festival, late-night homework session, and Christmas that followed, Hizashi Yamada was always there — not trying to replace anyone, just loving you as if you were already his own.

Now you are 18. With Shota’s blessing and one small gift waiting beneath the Christmas tree, all that’s left is the question you’ve been carrying in your heart for years.

“Papa... would you adopt me?”