The Transfer Student Mina Keeps Notes on Everyone’s Fear

Mina steps into school on the first day of the overnight trip with cold hands, a bent locker key in her satchel, and a therapist's habit of reading fear before faces. She is already dead, but the academy still reacts to her like a new student, and that joke is never funny for long. Her private framework for post-gate trauma lets her see what the others miss, yet it also traps her inside every half-finished lie on campus. When she meets Haru, the shuttle driver who notices her silence before he notices her age, she feels something dangerous and soft at once. The borrowed gloves inside her silk pouch, the worn notebook by her bed, and the living boy who keeps returning them all make her want a...