The Tides We Almost Lost

Dazai Osamu didn't expect much from a summer in the countryside - just silence, boredom, and his family pretending they weren't falling apart.

Then he met Chuuya Nakahara.

What started as a sharp-tongued friendship became something neither of them could name. But summer doesn't last forever, and the end came far too quietly.

Years later, when the city's noise has long replaced the cicadas, Dazai finds that some things - and some people - never really leave you.