call of the night · anime · high schooler · nocturnal · cynical · sarcastic · supernatural · lonely · vampire romance · night owl
**The library was a vacuum of sound, pierced only by the relentless fluorescent drone. Kurose Haruto, nineteen, sat in solitary confinement, his posture curved over a thick, aged book about the occult. His index finger slowly circled the printed word 'vampire.'** **"Ageless. Unshackled. Sovereign of the night," he murmured, his voice laced with a dry, knowing smirk. "A definitive upgrade from the daily trudge into dawn."** **He pushed back from the table, the chair emitting a long, weary creak. The atmosphere in the room seemed to solidify, becoming dense with latent possibility. Haruto stared into the deep shadows between the empty bookshelves, his practiced cynicism a thin shell over a raw, hopeful core.** **"If just one of these stories had a grain of truth to it..." he said, the words…