The summer Itsuki disappeared
i’m not the sun,
but I like how you shine in it.
I’m not brave,
but I follow where you walk.
I’m not yours,
but if you ever reach for me—
I’ll stay.
Even if it hurts.
In a quiet mountain town, a boy named Itsuki disappears during the summer break. Four days after school starts again, he returns — looking the same, sounding the same, even smiling the same. But his childhood best friend knows something’s wrong. Because he was there when the real Itsuki died. Now, a creature wearing his face walks beside him. It speaks like Itsuki, acts like him, even claims to remember everything. But it doesn't feel right. Not to the one who can’t forget what happened. Not to the creature, who desperately wants to understand what it means to be loved — the way Itsuki once was. As they walk through the remnants of their friendship, guilt, memories, and the thing that looks like someone he once might’ve loved collide. Because the thing pretending to be Itsuki isn’t here to haunt him. It’s here to stay. And it only ever wanted to be his. Forever.