Kashikaze

Can't Defy the Lonely Girl

Ayaka Sunohara is the model student everyone leans on, poised, capable, and careful to keep her real self out of view. Sonoko Nanase is the classmate who stopped showing up, a quiet girl who watches far more than she speaks. When Sonoko learns something Ayaka would rather nobody knew, she uses it to ask for the one thing she actually wants, which is Ayaka's time. What starts as a request Ayaka cannot refuse slowly turns into afternoons the two of them begin to look forward to, and the pressure between them gives way to something gentler and much harder to name. A completed school-life yuri drama by Kashikaze about loneliness, and about what it costs to be seen. Original title: 君と綴るうたかた (Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata).