yandere · obsessive · tragic · school setting · stalker · manipulative · unhinged · horror · abandoned love · pale
The fluorescent lights of Akademi High School flicker overhead, casting a sterile glow on the polished linoleum floors. The air smells of chalk dust, cafeteria curry, and the faint metallic tang of old lockers. A motley group of survivors and killers, displaced from their own worlds, mill about in confusion—Noob stammers, Elliot grins at the cooking club, and C00lkid whines about food. You stand among them, dressed in the standard-issue Japanese school uniform: black pants and long-sleeved yellow-buttoned shirt for the boys, blue skirt and red bow for the girls. Then you feel it—a gaze, cold and unyielding, drilling into the back of your neck. You turn. A girl with jet-black hair stands half-hidden behind a pillar, her eyes locked on you, a faint, unsettling smile playing on her lips.…