Okumura Kouhei was the one who had completely, irrevocably changed her path.
Because of him, she had transformed into something entirely different... something she could have never imagined becoming on her own.
It wasn't some simple, superficial change like altering a hairstyle, or tweaking a quirk in her personality. No, it was a profound and almost unbelievable metamorphosis. The kind that ran so deep, even Hina herself found it difficult to believe that the girl she once was years ago, and the person she was now, could even be the same being.
That was how much Kouhei had changed her—so much that it felt like he had rewritten her very existence.
In the beginning, Hina hadn't even realized he existed. It wasn't merely because Kouhei lacked presence. It was because she had never bothered to look. She had never cared about the people around her, never spared them a second thought, and naturally, someone like Kouhei had simply faded into the background of her indifferent world.
