Chapter 5 — I’m Alive

Riku Hayashi is home.

But being alive does not make explaining his disappearance any easier.

After weeks of hiding, Riku is forced to face his parents and tell them the truth no one should believe: the river, the other world, Valenmere, Sara, and the impossible crossing that brought them both back to Okinawa.

Emiko wants her son safe.

Sara expects judgment.

And Daichi hears something in Riku’s story that changes everything.

Because some truths sound impossible only to people who have never seen them before.