I Lost 108 Chances Before I Finally Earned Her Name

Yui pulled a torn sleeve closed with shaking fingers, then hid the tremor by painting another wish tablet at the shrine. She made clothes that gave people courage, but her own life still belonged to other hands. Then she found the same wish written for seventeen years in one careful hand, and a wandering warrior named Aya kept appearing wherever danger and silk touched. When court clothing, a borrowed seal box, and a first paycheck all pointed to the same sealed room, Yui had to decide whether her skill would keep her safe or make her visible. The person who taught her to stand taller was the one woman the world called unfit to trust, and Yui had already started trusting her with everything.