The Girl Who Lived for Me

What if the greatest proof of someone's love was that they fractured their own existence to save yours?

Kaito always felt like he was one step behind. A step behind in school, a step behind in life, and a step behind Mizuki—the childhood friend whose future seemed as bright and certain as his was uncertain. When a quiet word from her father makes the gap between their worlds feel impassable, Kaito does the only thing he thinks is kind: he walks away.

But after a sudden tragedy, Mizuki vanishes into her grandmother’s ancient countryside home, and Kaito's world begins to unravel in the rain. He starts seeing her where she shouldn't be—glimpses of a girl who looks like Mizuki, but older, sadder, watching him from the past with eyes full of a grief that hasn't happened yet.

Mizuki has discovered a secret in the old kominka: a way to visit the past. But it is not a gift; it is a desperate, haunting echo. Every visit to a memory where Kaito smiled comes at a cost, fraying her connection t

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