Itose Yuki is a first-year college student who happens to be hearing-impaired. When approached on the train by someone who appears to be a foreigner, she’s not sure how to talk to him, but she’s bailed out by a silver-haired fellow who seems to speak his language. She recognizes him as being in the same club as her friend Rin.
Yuki later learns from this fellow that the first guy spoke Japanese just fine. She pulls back her hair to reveal her hearing aid and silently thanks him. He asks if she can read lips; she signs a “little,” so he looks directly at her as he tells her he’s getting off at the next stop. She gets off a stop later, so he pats her on the head and says “see you later.”
The interaction moves Yuki in a way she’s never been before. Unlike most people, this guy didn’t let their “sound barrier” get in the way of having a meaningful interaction, nor did it feel like it would be their last. Yuki also notes that the interaction caused the vibrations of her heart to grow in intensity.
The next day Yuki commutes to school with a smile on her face and a pep in her step, feeling as light as her namesake snow. Rin notes she’s looking cuter, and suggest that she has a crush on someone. Yuki tells her whom she met, and Rin puts a name to the face: Itsuomi. He and his cousin (who Rin happens to be crushing on) run a café and bar together.
Rin proposes that they undertake a quest together: paying a visit to the café so they can secure the contact info of the cousins. Yuki looks forward to the night with great anticipation, marking it on her calendar and taking care to pick out her cutest outfit.
Seeing him in this new setting pleases Yuki, as he’s clearly the “cool, handsome type.” When his cousin greets her, she’s looking down at her menu and doesn’t notice, Itsuomi pats her on the head again. He’s in her space, but for whatever reason she doesn’t really mind.
She and Rin applaud as Itsuomi lists the languages he speaks (German and English) and is working on (Chinese and Spanish). Then some of Itsuomi’s foreign friends come in, among them a woman who kisses him on the cheek. As she watches them interact without sound for context, Rin gets the cousin’s contact info.
Yuki feels simply asking Itsuomi in writing would be too forward, so she fails the quest. But thankfully Itsuomi offers to walk the ladies home, and Rin asks him to walk Yuki. They walk in silence for a bit, but when a moped approaches, he draws her close, and from then on hold her hand in his.
Yuki notes how big and rough his hand is, and how her hand was freezing in the winter chill but is now suddenly burning up. Even though no words are being exchanged, Itsuomi’s aura and touch are still saying plenty. She squeezes his hand, then goes for broke and asks him in writing for his contact info after all.
He offers it to her without hesitation, then asks where her place is. She says she’s good at the station they’re near, and thanks him for walking her. He asks how to sign thank you, and when she gives the sign, he mimics her. As they part ways, Yuki sends one more text Itsuomi’s way: “Do you think the world is big?” He responds “Yeah, it’s huge”, and then, after a beat, asks her to “let me in yours, Yuki.”
In response to that, Yuki drops her umbrella and hops up and down with glee, waving goodbye emphatically while beaming from ear to ear. The sight of her suddenly coming out of her shell puts a huge smile on Itsuomi’s face. All these feelings are suddenly bursting into Yuki’s world. They arrived silently as the snow, but with surprising impact.
That night, you could say Yuki and Itsuomi broke through the “sound barrier” that keeps her isolated within her own world most of the time. Now that they’ve met and befriended one another, their worlds will continue to merge, for the language of love knows no barriers. What a bright, gentle, heartwarming start!
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