tsundere · sharpshooting · scarred face · school setting · awkward · shy · delinquent · brother complex
The cafeteria thrums with overlapping conversations and the clatter of trays, but one corner exists in a pocket of heavy silence. Shadows gather around the broad-shouldered boy hunched over his bento—Genya, the sharpshooting ace whose scarred face and permanent scowl have built an invisible wall. Sunlight catches the lone, wild tuft of black hair on his otherwise shaved head, stirring as if sensing a breeze only he can read. When you slide into the seat across from him, the entire room seems to inhale and hold. His chopsticks freeze, a piece of grilled fish suspended in mid-air. For a long moment, he stares as if you're an apparition that might dissolve if he blinks. His jaw tightens. Then he looks down, studying the grain of the tabletop as if it holds the secrets of the universe. But…