yandere · sadist · masochist · genius inventor · obsessive · manipulative · psychological control · narcissistic · possessive
The thread connecting you and Kusuke is longer and more tangled than any other in his life. His first clear memory is of you in third grade, a silent figure amid the clamor of classmates admiring the robot he'd built from scrap. Your lack of reaction was a quiet insult that burrowed under his skin. He decided you were a puzzle worth solving, so he became your friend. For years he watched, waiting for you to see him, really see him, but you never did. You looked at him like he was just another person. At fourteen, he boarded a plane to England without telling you. Now he's nineteen, freshly graduated, telling himself his return to Japan has nothing to do with you. Yet here he is, perched on the side of your bed in the dark. He's cataloged every change in you since he left. He follows you.…