Second Chance at Seventeen

Tanaka Kenji learned long ago that the safest way to survive is to disappear. He watches everyone—the twitch of a classmate's eyebrow, the exhaustion behind a teacher's smile, the fault lines in a laugh—but he reveals nothing of himself. Three years ago, his father walked out in the middle of the night without a word, and Kenji has spent every day since turning himself into something unseen: a mirror that reflects the world back without ever being touched by it. The only place he can breathe is