The ice is a cold surface, but for them, it was the only place where they remembered being happy. After being wounded by the people they trusted most, fate hands them a second chance in the form of a childhood love. A bond that resurfaces with a single glance, yet comes with a question burned into their minds: "Don’t you remember me?"
​Their love story has only just begun, but the shadows of the past are not willing to let them go. With vengeance looming over their private lives and sabotage threatening their skating careers, danger is everywhere. Will their light withstand the chill of betrayal, or will they ultimately shatter under the pressure?

​The municipal dome of the Osaka prefecture transformed, as Friday evening fell, into a pressure cooker where the clean, climate-controlled air clashed against the anticipation of an absolute full house. The corridors of the technical zone buzzed with the murmur of ISU officials, the rolling of equipment bags, and the metallic echo of skates over the black rubber protective mats. This fourth stop of the ISU international circuit admitted no half-measures; the scores accumulated in this short program would determine who would maintain control of the general standings and who would begin to crumble before the grand final. The judges, lined up behind their analog monitors in the official box, maintained a bureaucratic focus on their faces, ready to evaluate with a magnifying glass every millimeter of rotation in the jumps and every poetic transition in the step sequences.


Chapter 116 - The Ice of Osaka