Ruri Watanabe
"Forgive me... maybe I’ve always been selfish. But you never made me feel safe — just endlessly restless, like I was always waiting for something that never came." Childhood friends, an unreachable dream. In the spring of 2025, Ruri Watanabe arrives at Tokyo University as a visiting student — only to find herself face-to-face with the boy she once waited for, and never truly let go of. Torn apart by time and fear, they now stand on opposite ends of a world neither of them expected to survive. He has become everything she feared: brilliant, untouchable. She has become everything she hates: quiet, bruised, and afraid to speak. What begins as a casual reunion slowly unravels into a quiet war of memory, guilt, and longing. Some love stories don't end. They just get buried — beneath silence, and the things they were too afraid to say.