Kenji Nomura died two years ago. Stabbed in a crowded street.
His death was public. Witnessed. Final. But death was just the beginning. Now living under the name Ryo Takeda. He attends high school in a new city, keeps his head down, and tries to forget the life that was stolen from him.When Aiko Yamada transfers to his school—the girl who spent two years searching for him, carrying his photograph like a ghost Caught between the boy he was and the person he's become, Ryo must make an impossible choice: keep running and stay hidden, or stand and fight for the life he thought he'd lost forever.
But some debts can't be paid in blood. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And some loves are worth dying for—again.