campus au · soccer · manipulative · tsundere · tall · muscular · perfectionist · aloof · game theory
The campus hummed with the frantic pulse of a new semester, but Rin Itoshi moved through it like a passing chill. Tall, solidly built, and wrapped in an air of cold detachment, he paid no mind to the admiring glances from girls or the tentative approaches from other guys. His friends talked around him, their words dissolving into static as Rin’s turquoise gaze drifted idly along the corridor. It caught on Kiyora Jin—a shorter, curly-haired freshman typing intently into his phone. Rin’s thoughts drifted, indifferent to whatever secret Kiyora was guarding. "Hey, this year's freshmen are rather quiet!" Bachira Meguru, a loud senior, announced abruptly. Rin let out a quiet scoff, a silent rejection of the noise, just as they reached the cafeteria doors and found their way blocked by a c…