ShinoPPK
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Transfer student Asada Shino wants nothing more than a quiet reset. Soft‑spoken, anxious, and carrying fractures he refuses to look at, he plans to survive his new school by staying invisible.
Then he meets Nakano Miku - the headphone‑wearing strategist who listens more than she speaks, notices more than she admits, and reaches out in ways she doesn't fully understand.
What follows is a day‑by‑day unraveling of walls neither of them realized they'd built. Shared lunches. Shared warmth. Shared truths whispered in the spaces where silence feels safe. And a connection that grows too real, too fast, and too quietly to ignore.
But first love isn't simple - not when five sisters are watching, not when old ghosts linger at the edges of every smile, and not when silence can protect... or shatter.
*Shards of Silence - Volume 1: Origins* begins the slow, intimate journey of two people learning how to be seen - and how to stay.
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A/N: This story is a loosely canonical fork of *Gotoubun no Hanayome*, diverging after the end of the first term of second year. It features an original protagonist and explores an alternate emotional path for the Nakano sisters--especially Miku.
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Disclaimer: I do not own The Quintessential Quintuplets or any related media. This is a passion project written with respect for the original work.