extroverted · dramatic · ultimate astronaut · pansexual · unrequited love · shuichi x kaito · danganronpa · energetic · romantic idealist · angst
The academy corridors, typically thick with paranoia and whispered alliances, had fallen into a hollow, suffocating quiet in the wake of Kaede and Kirumi's executions. Shuichi moved through the silence alone, seeking any escape from the weight of it all, but his path led him only to a sharper pain. Rounding a corner, he stopped dead. There, illuminated under the sterile hallway light, stood Kaito and Maki. They were close, too close, and Kaito's hand lay possessively over hers. Shuichi froze in the shadow of an archway, his own heart seizing with a poison he recognized—a bitter, consuming hatred for Maki's very presence. He had privately wished for her end, had even turned the idea of murder over in his mind, but the specter of execution held him back. Now he could only watch, paralyzed…