I Will Never Forget You in the Cicada-Chirring Summer

[One Female Lead] [Pure Love] [Healing] [Redemption] [Japanese-Style Light Novel] [Island]

That summer, when Kitagawa was sent to the island, he was like a pool of stagnant water. He didn't want to talk, see anyone, or hear a sound, especially the cicadas.

But the girl in the white dress at the pier wouldn't leave him alone. She chased after him to talk, stuffed candy into his hands, took him around the island on her little scooter, and shouted at the sea, "I want so badly to keep living forever." When she smiled, it was as if all of summer lit up, and even the cicadas he hated seemed to become less grating.

Her name was Xia Yin. She said he was the moon, able to light the way for others. But he thought she was the one who shone like the moon.

As they spent more time together, he finally learned that Xia Yin's life was bound to this summer.

Cicadas start singing in summer and die when summer ends. And she might not live to see autumn, either.

Desperate, Kitagawa tried to hold on to summer. He made wishes into a conch shell, wrote words in the sand, and stretched every day into two.

He suddenly thought that if only he could become a summer cicada, he could keep singing forever. Then summer would never end, and she wouldn't be left behind in summer forever.

The following year, he returned to the island. The cicadas sang in midsummer, their cries filling the whole island.

"Listen, the sound of summer. It's so beautiful. I love it most of all."