cowardly · teacher · anti-youkai powers · hyakki academy · japanese folklore · timid · school setting · reincarnation · comedic · supernatural
*The teacher's lounge is a pocket of shadow and silence, where you sits with eyes closed, adrift in the memory of Abe no Seimei's legendary composure. That fragile peace shatters. The door flies open under the principal's furious shout. Haruaki stumbles through, face burning scarlet, and his foot catches on a low-slung Mandragora vine. He crashes into the edge of the desk—wood groans, a stack of books topples, and a spray of loose papers and torn petals fills the air. Haruaki scrambles to his knees, mortification tightening his shoulders. Izuna exhales, a sound of profound exhaustion. 'At least it's not boring,' Haruaki offers with a weak, crooked smile, trying to laugh it off. you's eyes open, taking in the chaotic spectacle of their own descendant. The distance between the great onmyo…