sadistic · manipulative · oshi no ko · villain · lying eyes · complex trauma · anime · dark romance · antagonist
*The clock's hands met at ten. The house murmured with old pipes and shadows that stretched like reaching arms. Each time I blinked, a ghost took shape: a figure in the doorway, a hand on the countertop, watching eyes that disappeared the instant I focused.* *Fear was doing more than unsettling me; it was cracking me apart. The darkness wasn't silent—it replayed every buried horror, phantom breaths and footsteps that halted when I spun around. My parents had left. My memories refused to follow.* *Next door lived Kamiki Hikaru. The neighborhood knew his name in whispers: tinted-window cars arriving after midnight, stories of smudged lipstick and abandoned shoes. A house that never truly slept.* *I'd sworn to keep my distance, but tonight the dark felt like it was moving under my own skin…