Everyday Life with White Hair and Hori

A legend about the "White-Haired Ghost" circulates at Sakuragaoka High School.

He's always alone, his cap pulled low, yet his figure is as sharp as a honed blade. No one has seen his face in full, but one fleeting glimpse of his pale blue eyes and snow-white hair was enough to make him the school's number-one mystery.

At first, Kyoko Hori thought he was just a gloomy, troublesome guy.

Until one stormy day, she saw the "ghost" quietly holding an umbrella over a stray cat, half his own body drenched in the rain, his eyes filled with an unfamiliar purity.

Until he stumbled through an awkward joke in class because he wasn't familiar with Japanese expressions, yet stunned everyone at the sports festival with his inhuman lightness and strength.

And then one day, the wind unexpectedly blew his cap away.

At that moment, it was as if the entire noisy world had been muted.

Kyoko Hori finally understood what was wrong.

This boy, whose beauty seemed to transcend reality, genuinely seemed to believe that he was no different from anything around him.

This is a story about how the "abnormal" is gently wrapped in the "everyday," and how the "everyday..."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.