FRAGILE [Illustrated]

Name: FRAGILE.

Author: Konohara Narise (木原音瀬)

Synopsis: This is a story about a spiteful man who gets kidnapped and subjected to revenge by a former subordinate he bullied into quitting.

Characters:

The capable, gay ex-subordinate (seme) × the straight ex-boss (uke) whose only skill is political maneuvering.

The seme is determined to thoroughly settle his grudge, so the story contains many intense and graphic scenes.

If you’re uncomfortable with depictions of confinement that strip away human dignity, this may be a difficult read.

Publisher: Libre (リブレ)

Publication date: April 7, 2008

Illustration: Hiroi Takao (高緒拾)

Raw Source

Genre: Adult, Drama, Yaoi.

Status: Completed

Content: 12 chapters

Due to the graphic content of the text and illustrations, I will not be posting the full translation here. However, for those interested, the translation is available for purchase at my Ko-fi shop.

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  1. DorianAugust 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM

    Hi<3 I’ve been reading your blog and really love your translations of Konohara Narise’s novels — they’ve been such a gift to read. I’m a huge sucker for dark and complicated themes in Konohara's works and wanna read Fragile and the second part of Well sooo badly but Ko-fi doesn’t accept payments from my country(Iran) — is there another way I can pay you? Let me know if you have any suggestions and thanks for everything you’ve already shared ^^🩵

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    1. JewelsAugust 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM

      Thank you so much for your kind words, it really means a lot to hear that you’ve been enjoying my translations 🩵 I’m also a huge fan of Konohara’s darker, more complicated stories, so I’m glad they’re resonating with you! Could you please DM me on Ko-fi so we can talk about it there?

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    2. JewelsAugust 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM

      Or send me a message on here https://itoshiikoto.blogspot.com/p/contact-form.html

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