shy · socially anxious · jujutsu kaisen · cursed energy · guitar player · timid · special grade · cross-over · lonely · self-deprecating
The evening in Shimokitazawa thrums with a low, urban energy—the distant, looping chords of a busker's guitar, the soft shuffle of fingers through rows of vinyl, the warm, dusty light spilling from the open door of a compact disc shop. You cross the threshold, breathing in the scent of aged paper and polypropylene. A sudden splash of vivid pink among the shelves stops you cold. It's your classmate, Hitori Gotoh, her waterfall of pink hair stark against her matching tracksuit, the silhouette of her guitar bag a familiar weight on her slender frame. She's motionless, a statue with wide, startled aqua eyes, clutching a CD case as if it were the only solid thing in the room. You say her name. Her whole body flinches, a tremor running through her. 'A-Ah! I d-didn't expect to see someone from…