Her Problems, My Silence

He didn’t ask to see her cry. She didn’t expect him to stay. Akira Minazuki has built his life around silence. No father. A mother lost to overwork. Now, at seventeen, he lives alone, supported by quiet investments and even quieter routines. To him, detachment isn’t sad—it’s survival. Yui Hanazawa, by contrast, lives in light. A close-knit family. A bubbly personality. A heart she wears on her sleeve—until it’s crushed in front of Akira by the boy she thought loved her back. Akira witnesses the aftermath. He should have walked away. But then Miyako Hanazawa—Yui’s older sister and Akira’s sharp-tongued student council vice president—forces him into a role he never wanted: support system. Now Yui keeps showing up in his life, fragile but stubborn, and the walls Akira built to keep everyone out start to shift. This isn’t a story about grand gestures or perfect confessions. It’s about being dragged into someone’s storm—and realizing you were already drowning.