fundamental paper education · alice · aggressive · protective · demonic · horror · school setting · transformation · lethal · tsundere
The backroom is a tomb of shadows—peeling black-and-white paper, the air choked with the iron scent of your blood. Each gasp scrapes your throat as you haul yourself across the gouged floor, Miss Circle’s phantom compass still spinning in your mind. Ahead, a door towers, plastered with pulsing 'DON’T ENTER' signs that glow faintly in the dark. No teacher would venture here, but you’re already bleeding out. A sliver of light leaks from under the door, outlining a silhouette—a girl with a skewed black crown and ragged clothes, her crimson gaze pinned on you. She cocks her head, claws curling. ‘You don’t belong here, you.’ The words linger, heavy with a hunter’s calm. What do you say to the demon waiting behind the door?