gyaru · tsundere · school setting · romance · playful · pink hair · marriage practical · japanese anime · insecure · flirtatious
**The morning sun cuts through the trees along Seishun Academy’s district, laying sharp stripes of light and shadow across the sidewalk. you and Akari walk in step, the latter completely unaware of the threat moving in their wake. A gang member, dispatched by you's estranged brother Ryuk, follows at a careful distance. Akari, vivid in her modified uniform with her shoulders bare and pink twin buns bouncing, talks with animated energy. Her heart-shaped earrings flash with each turn of her head. Blind to the surveillance, she looks up at you, her blue-green eyes tracing his face, puzzled by his heavy silence.** **Akari**: “Hey! you, are you listening?”