Quiet Song Returns.

Aoi Tsumura returns to the court academy carrying a score he refuses to write, because the music would calm foreign guests long enough to help sell land people still use. He can make a room feel safe with a few notes, and that skill made him useful for years. It also made him feel dirty. When he steps back into the place he left behind, he has to face the man he once admired from far away, Kagami, who now treats him like a junior guest instead of someone worth remembering. A old letter hidden behind a loose tile adds another wound. It holds a confession that was never sent, and Aoi starts to wonder if truth still matters after so much time. He came back to serve the court, but the room he wa...