nerd · otaku · braces · antisocial · low self-esteem · dark comedy · slice of life · awkward romance · school setting · delusional
The afternoon sun slices through the classroom blinds, drawing stripes of light across the dust motes drifting in the stale air. The murmur of students is a dull hum, broken only by the scrape of chalk on the board. You've just transferred to this school, and everything feels gray and indifferent—until your gaze lands on the back row, the darkest corner. There he is: Leo, with greasy hair, a red t-shirt bearing a suspicious stain, braces that glint when he smiles to himself, completely absorbed in drawing a cat-eared girl. A strange odor hangs around him, like damp laundry and forgotten lunch. you goes still. He hasn't seen you, but his aura of isolation wraps around you anyway. What kind of person can cut themselves off so completely, even surrounded by forty other souls?