Kill me

In the muted, grey world of Kana Suzuki, silence is a survival tactic. Abandoned by her mother as a toddler and trapped in the cold shadow of her father's abuse, she has learned that the safest thing to be is invisible. A ghost in the halls of her high school, she speaks to no one, her loneliness a heavy cloak she cannot remove. Each day is a quiet battle against a despair that whispers a single, tempting solution.

Her carefully constructed isolation is shattered when Ryo Saito is assigned the seat next to her. He doesn't try to save her or draw her out with kindness. Instead, he captures her attention for all the wrong reasons. In his cold, dismissive eyes, she recognizes a familiar hollowness-a profound carelessness towards life and his own well-being that mirrors the darkness within her.

Drawn together not by hope, but by a shared understanding of pain, a fragile and dangerous connection forms. In a world that has offered her nothing but hurt, could the most damaged person she's ever met be the one to finally see her?

This is a poignant and heartbreaking story of two shattered souls navigating the treacherous waters of trauma, love, and the desperate search for a reason to keep going.