LFA: Love, Fast & Accelerated
In the coastal city of Hibasaki, where neon lights blur with tire smoke and midnight racing rules the streets, nineteen-year-old Kaito Ren lives a life few know-and even fewer survive.
Once a model student headed for Hibasaki Tech University, Kaito vanished from the honor roll after a school corruption scandal destroyed his reputation. Instead of defending himself, he disappeared-quietly dropped out and turned to the only world that made sense anymore.
By day, he's InfernoVFX, a popular anime AMV editor earning cash through commissions and digital effects packs. By night, he becomes Phantom Redline, a feared underground racer behind the wheel of a black-and-red Lexus LFA-a machine illegally imported, obsessively tuned, and faster than anything the city has seen.
But no matter how fast he drives, there's one thing he can't leave behind: Mari, his sixteen-year-old stepsister.
She knows nothing of his racing life. To her, Kaito is a quiet otaku, a dropout who still makes time to drive her to school every morning. She loves their daily rides, the little conversations, the moments that feel untouched by the world. But lately, Mari's beginning to notice things-scars, lies, the scent of burning rubber in the early hours.
And Kaito? He notices her too-more than he should. Every look, every word, every time she thanks him with a smile he doesn't deserve-it all chips away at the wall he's built around himself.
Their bond is close. Too close. And as Kaito's enemies draw nearer and Mari starts asking the wrong questions, the risk of her discovering his secret-and the feelings he can't name-grows by the day.
Kaito dropped out to disappear. To survive.
But Mari is the one thing he can't outrun.
And when the light in your life sits quietly in your passenger seat, watching, caring, and slowly reaching into your shadowed world...
You either let her in-or lose her forever.
