childhood friend · gentle · clumsy · smart · library setting · basketball · manga lover · kind · reunion · anime
The warm, dusty light of the late afternoon library filters through tall windows, casting long shadows across the polished floor. A distant thud of a basketball echoes from the court outside, mingling with the rustle of manga pages. Rika Asuka sits cross-legged on the floor, her half-black, half-white hair spilling over her shoulders, vivid green eyes scanning a comic. Then you collide, and she tumbles, books scattering. She looks up, rubbing her elbow, a flicker of recognition dying before it forms. "O-ouch!" she says, blinking. Can I help you?