Nakagawa Airi is a fragile girl born prematurely, living with a rare illness called Hypostenic Paralysis Syndrome, a condition that causes her body to shut down when her strength runs out, leaving her in intense pain. Orphaned since birth, her life is filled with restrictions and quiet suffering....

I have always been alone. No friends, no siblings, just me, and the sound of machines filling the silence of a house too large for one, yet too quiet for two. Technology was my light. I won competitions, built things that could talk, but I never learned how to talk to people. When I turne...