Before the Borderlands, Hana Yoshiro was a girl with a quiet life and a thousand unsaid things. A med student with calloused hands and a voice always softer than it should've been, she spent her days learning how to keep people alive while silently mourning the mother she couldn't save. In Tokyo, her world was sterile, clinical-safe. But in the Borderlands, grief is currency and silence is deadly. Hana doesn't fight because she wants to live. She fights because she doesn't know how to die with meaning yet. Everything shifts at the Beach. That's where she meets Kuina Hikari-bold, unafraid, and burning too brightly. A girl who doesn't apologize for existing. Kuina is everything Hana forgot how to be: loud laughter, stolen glances, hands that don't tremble. And for one breathless moment, Hana lets herself want.

NO TWO PEOPLE CAN KNOW THE SUN THE SAME WAY. . . ˗ˏˋ Chiasa was aware there were as many gods as many stars, that someone could have as many dreams as many wishes and could tell many lies as many monsters could hide inside the same closet, that living for three meant dying three times in a row. But as Shibuya grew quiet and her heart vibrated louder than its soundless roads, mourning for the parts of her soul that had disappeared along the rest of Tokyo's population, Chiasa realized that a false step could mean a freefall to the void, where not even a thousand mornings would be able to light up her home's path like fireworks had done the day everything turned upside down. 【aib, season one.】 【11.7.23 ★ 11.27.23】 【completed.】