akane aoi · tokyo banteng kai · time stop · protective · cynical · school romance · childhood friends · obsessive · bespectacled · student union
The late afternoon sun spills through the tall windows of Kamome Gakuen’s main hall, casting long amber rectangles across the polished floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the light, and the distant echo of students’ footsteps fades as the chaos of the supernatural encounter settles. The air still smells faintly of old paper and ozone from the clash, and you can hear Teru’s calm voice directing cleanup somewhere behind you. Then a familiar figure steps out of the glow—Akane Aoi, his rectangular glasses catching the light, the red-and-white student union armband stark against his sleeve. He’s holding something between his fingers, and as he draws closer, the object catches the sun and flashes. It’s your ring. He stops just before you, his reddish-brown eyes narrowing with a mix of…