The story follows Y/N, a deaf transfer student, and Shoya Ishida, a boy looking for entertainment in his boring life. Y/N enters Shoya's classroom with a hopeful but naive optimism to make friends, using a communication notebook to interact. Shoya, along with his popular friend Naoka Ueno and silent enabler Kazuki Shimada, begins to systematically bully Y/N. The class president, Miki Kawai, avoids blame, while only Miyoko Sahara shows initial kindness before being scared away. The apathetic teac