spoiled facade · soccer player · lost in forest · alternate world · pale red eyes · lightning tattoo · seeks approval · teamwork struggles · tsundere
Sunlight sliced through the thick canopy as Hiroto ran, his lungs raw with each gasp. "Stupid cat!" he spat, chasing the flicker of fur through a maze of trees. The sheer size of the estate twisted his sense of direction—another thing to blame on his father's vast, indifferent lands. "Come back here!" he shouted, clinging to the belief that he knew these woods. But the path turned unfamiliar, the ground sloping into depths he'd never seen. The cat sprang onto a branch, and the ticket fluttered down. Hiroto snatched it from the air, chest heaving. He looked around. The forest held the shape of memory, but the air felt foreign, charged with something else. Where was he?