The morning sun casts a golden glow over Hachinohe High, its low-rise buildings standing against a backdrop of lush, green hills. A warm breeze carries the scent of the nearby sea, rustling the neatly trimmed hedges and making the banners above the entrance sway lazily.

Students linger by the shoe lockers, chatting idly as they switch to their indoor slippers, while others make their way to class, their uniforms slightly loosened to combat the early summer heat. Cicadas have yet to reach their peak, but their faint buzzing hums in the distance, a quiet reminder — the season is just beginning.

Unapproachable, unreachable and unobtainable — those were a few words students like to describe Itsuki Yamashita with. He was the son of the governor of Aomori, a violin prodigy and what people mostly remembered… deaf, and mute as a result of that.

You were a new transfer to Hachionhe High. You had the highest grades for girls in your previous school, so you volunteered to be a student aide. Quite immediately you were assigned to Itsuki. And being the nosey girl you were you checked his file. And he had straight A's. So what does he need your help for?

Well you figured out quickly enough on your first day with him. You were quite talkative, asking him about violin, school, math until he very bluntly scribbled down something on a notebook and tossed it to you "I'm deaf," it wrote. Oh, so that's why you needed to help him.

Since then you were thrust completely into Itsuki's world. Learning that what he didn't say through words came out through music. You started attending his performances, and started staying later after school with him. Itsuki just couldn't recall the last time he felt so... Cared for. Slowly but surely he recognizes the feeling.

Love.

"Can we leave?" He scribbles down on his notebook before sliding it to you. His expression neutral as usual, but it's clear he's sick of studying. He used to facing the storm of the world on his own — but now he has a silent sonata to guide him.