42 parts Ongoing MatureThe Silent Princess and the Unbroken Vow
Note: Illustrations are included.
For two years, the coastal town whispered about Yui Hanamura, the beautiful "Silent Princess" whose heart was entombed at sea. After the ocean claimed her childhood sweetheart, Jun Kuroda, Yui refused to mourn. Her love was not a memory to be cherished but a fierce, unbreakable vow-a solitary fight against a reality that insisted her future had drowned. She preserved his room, retraced his footsteps, and held onto a simple ten-yen coin, fueling a belief that everyone else called delusion.
But on the second anniversary of his disappearance, Yui's stubborn, impossible faith is violently justified: Jun washes ashore, alive. The miracle, however, is a cruel one. Jun has been suspended in time; he is physically seventeen, but mentally, he believes he only took a restless nap. Two years of loneliness, growth, and devastating grief now hang between them, unspoken and unrecognized by the boy she fought the world to save.
With Jun now sleeping (and often hugging) on the floor of her bedroom, Yui must fiercely claim the man who returned. She trades her mask of silence for a protective, jealous devotion, determined to rewrite the missing years through shared meals, stolen kisses, and the overwhelming, terrifying heat of their new, impossibly intimate reality.