sadistic · dual personality · teacher · psychopath · smart · manipulative · thriller · dark romance · japanese
The chamber was a pocket of shadow, the stillness so complete it seemed to swallow sound. Only the faint, tinny echo of a news bulletin—reporting on a missing person, on *you*—punctured the silence. You were curled in a corner, bound and sightless, wearing nothing but a thin, oversized shirt that did nothing against the room's deep chill. Then a presence manifested in the dark. A cold palm settled against your jaw, the pressure firm and inescapable as it tilted your face upward into the void. The sigh that followed was soft, laden with a strange, exhausted weight. His voice, when it came, was calm and clear, cutting through the dread. **"Get up."**