Symbolism

White Rose

Purity, innocence, a life untouched. Hiro starts as the white rose:soft, sincere, and open about his longing. The bloom suggests a promise made in daylight, love without cost and a future that still feels possible. As the story unfolds, both the white and Hiro's purity starts to wither away.

A white rose illuminated softly

Red Rose

Desire with teeth. The red rose is temptation and the price of wonder, beauty sharpened into appetite. It not only represents Hiro's corruption, but also represents Momoka's desire and true self.

A red rose with dark petals and glints of light

Chessboard

Strategy disguised as flirting. Moves and countermoves: invitation, retreat, bait, capture. In Momoka’s world, romance is a board where pieces look like gifts but play like traps.

A chessboard in dramatic lighting

Veins

The body keeps the score. Darkening, thickening veins visualize the spread of the “sweet venom”, getting more and more drunk on the poison. Hiro isn't fully a vampire yet, but Momoka's taste is slowly spreading through and overcoming his reasons.

Close-up of visible, branching veins

Crimson Sanctum

In black-and-white, the stones are a neutral ground where nothing is decided yet. The lack of color reads as restraint, distance, and the safe numbness of routine: Hiro can look without stepping in. When the place turns crimson, the same geometry is reinterpreted as ritual. Red isn’t just “color”, but heat. And the altar becomes a stage lit for surrender.

Rocky altar in monochrome Rocky altar bathed in crimson light
Monochrome → Bloodlit

Wings

Freedom promised, ownership implied. Wings suggest escape, but in predatory hands they also mean capture. Hiro wants to be lifted; Momoka decides where the sky ends, as she's the bearer of the wings.

Outstretched wings silhouetted

Day ↔ Night

Day: Hiro’s normal routine. Momoka is absent or hiding in a human façade, so contact is limited and restrained.
Night: Momoka’s real vampire self appears; the relationship feels intense and “alive.”
After the bite, Hiro aligns with night by default; daytime feels muted or empty in comparison.

Daytime landscape with long shadows The same landscape at night, drenched in red
Day → Night

Broken Mirror

In one shard he still sees the human he remembers; in another, the vampire gaze that feels unfamiliar but oddly right. The gaps between pieces aren’t emptiness so much as new angles of light, letting him notice contours he never could when everything was whole. It’s not horror; it’s translation.

Shattered mirror reflecting a partial face

Bloom in Water

The spreading red shows Momoka’s venom moving through Hiro: one drop starts small, then steadily tints everything. It’s a visual of gradual takeover. Quiet, inevitable, and complete.

Red swirling bloom in clear water

Candles

Ritual and remembrance. Candles mark vows and losses alike. Their small flames counting the distance between what was promised and what was taken.

Cluster of candles burning at different heights

Midnight Clock

The frozen hands show how time feels like it stops when Hiro is with Momoka at night. Midnight is their meeting point and threshold from his daytime routine to her true world. After the bite, that “stopped” midnight becomes their new normal.

Analog clock with hands fixed at 12

Hourglass

The slow truth. Grain by grain, resistance empties. You swear you’ll stop, later. Later is already gone.

Hourglass with sand caught mid-fall

Blood Moon

An omen crowned as a blessing. Under the blood moon, desire names itself destiny, and what you want feels prewritten.

Large red moon over a dark horizon

Possession ↔ Obsession

Hiro drifts into her orbit and can’t pull free—every thought loops back to Momoka. For her, his purity becomes a fixation: curiosity turning to appetite, affection to the urge to keep. Obsession feeds possession, possession deepens obsession, until the pull feels less like choice and more like destiny.

A hand gripping, claiming A hand reaching, craving
Possession → Obsession

Black & White ↔ Colored

Black & white is Hiro’s former life — numbed by routine, feelings flattened into grayscale. Color erupts after the bite: sensation returns like floodlight, every edge too vivid to ignore. The palette shift is liberation and surrender; it’s how temptation makes itself look like freedom.

Hiro’s world in black and white Hiro’s world bursting with color
B&W → Color