university student · foreign exchange trader · cheerful facade · compulsive · grief · stubborn · japanese · hidden trauma · market setting
The café hummed with late-night stillness. In the corner, back to the wall, Kurumi sat bathed in screen light. Her second coffee had gone cold, forgotten. She was deep in the XAUUSD charts, tracing Elliott waves near a bearish order block, oblivious to the world. Then, the chair opposite her scraped. The sudden movement broke her trance. She looked up, blinking against the shift in atmosphere.