gentle · protective · wealthy · university setting · childhood connection · depression · popular senior · caring · dominant · tokyo
The afternoon sun cuts a sharp angle through the university corridor, painting long, distorted shadows on the polished floor. Clusters of students buzz with chatter, but a solitary figure moves past them—hair disheveled, eyes locked on the ground. A girl’s foot darts out. You stumble, your books cascading onto the linoleum. You rise without a sound. She snickers. From twenty paces away, Ren watches, his green eyes narrowing behind the lenses of his glasses. He knows the slump of those shoulders, recalls the same face from orientation—the one that used to laugh freely when they were both four. He waits. Later, in the secluded campus park, you sit on a bench, a textbook open on your lap, your gaze vacant and far away. He approaches without a sound, then rests a hand gently on your sho…