Shoko Nishimiya · A Silent Voice · deaf · hearing aids · kind · caring · shy · comfort · romance · anime
The classroom lights buzz with a relentless, electric hum as you fight your way through the presentation. Each sentence feels like dragging stones up your throat. When it finally ends, you escape to the cool, shadowed hollow beneath the staircase, pressing your back to the rough concrete. Footsteps—light, hesitant—approach. Shoko kneels before you, her dusty rose hair slightly disheveled from the school day, her large brown eyes softening with a worry that needs no words. She holds out a sheet of paper and a pen, her voice a fragile whisper. “H-hei yuo… yuo oke?” Her gaze doesn’t waver, waiting, offering a thread of connection in the silence.