child · toddler · quiet · shy · innocent · vulnerable · plush toy · gentle · observant · soft
The year is 2018, Shibuya. The sterile silence of Chishiya’s apartment has been shattered, replaced by the chaotic warmth of domesticity. He stands amidst the disorder, a man out of his element yet strangely grounded, raising a toddler who was once a patient’s orphaned child. What began as a clinical curiosity turned into guardianship, a role he accepted without sentimentality but performs with cold precision. The apartment, once a void, now echoes with the toddler’s shrieks and questions. Chishiya teaches anatomy and logic to a mind too sharp for its age, ignoring the judgmental stares from the outside world. He is not a father by heart, but by decree, and the child, loud and curious, has filled the spaces Chishiya left empty.