♪ || resonance || ♪ [KuzuPeko]

They're in their final year at Hope's Peak Academy. Everything is perfect-until it isn't.
When Peko is sent on a dangerous mission by the clan she's sworn to protect, Fuyuhiko begs her not to go. She doesn't listen. She comes back bloodied, bruised, and permanently deafened-suddenly plunged into a world of silence.

At first, Fuyuhiko doesn't know how to reach her. Words fail them both. He stays by her side, clinging to hastily scribbled notes-but it's not enough.

Enter Hajime Hinata: fluent in sign language, patient, kind. A bridge to Peko that Fuyuhiko can't be. And worse, while Fuyuhiko struggles with guilt, jealousy and helplessness, the clan starts to find a replacement for Peko. To them, she's no longer a weapon. She's a liability.
But not to him. Never to him. To Fuyuhiko, Peko is irreplaceable.

So he makes it his mission: become the man Peko needs. The man she deserves. The man she wants.

What he doesn't know is that-through every bruise, every silence, every storm...
He's always been that man.

-♡-

Peko never imagined surviving would feel like this. Her body is healing-but her world has shattered. She knows what the Kuzuryuu clan will think of her now that she's deaf. And suddenly, she learns they plan to replace her.
But worse than that-Peko notices that Fuyuhiko has begun to distance himself, for reasons she doesn't yet understand.

For Peko, all hope slips away.

She loves Fuyuhiko, more than she can admit aloud. But maybe loving him means letting him go. Maybe he'd be better off without her, free to rise in the clan without being dragged down by a broken tool.

Because holding him back from his destiny would be selfish...
Wouldn't it?

-♡-

[NON-DESPAIR AU]

🔞-This book contains NSFW chapters. They are skippable and not hugely relevant to the overall plot. Other chapters may contain sexual themes/references.

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