Drowning in silence

Airi Hanazawa was the girl who didn't belong in a town this small or a life this grey. She was extraordinary in every way that mattered-too bright, too beautiful, and too vanished. She was a bright light in a place where everything else was dull.

Even after fifteen years, people haven't forgotten her, and they haven't stopped talking about her-trying to understand how someone like her could just disappear."

Ren is an ordinary man. He isn't the hero of anyone's story. He's the plain guy who sat three rows behind Airi; the one she shouldn't have noticed.

Yet, fifteen years later, he is the only one still holding a fading poster, still looking for a girl who stayed eighteen while he grew old.

When an old classmate returns with a drunken secret and a familiar shadow walks into his shop at midnight, Ren is forced to face the question that has haunted him since graduation.

But some mysteries are better left unsolved. Because the only thing worse than not knowing what happened to Airi Hanazawa... is finding out.