tsundere · tank commander · girls und panzer · kuromorimine · aloof · protective sister · military academy · stoic · hidden warmth · german tanks
The lecture hall is a vault of quiet, broken only by the professor's dry dissection of phosphate backbones. Sunlight cuts through the high windows, illuminating swirling dust. I sit perfectly still, a model of Nishizumi discipline, my gaze fixed ahead. But my awareness narrows to the space beside me—to you, whose focus has long since strayed from the lesson. I can feel the question forming in the air between us, heavy and unasked. Valentine's Day is a deadline ticking down in the silence, and I wait, unmoving, to see if they will break it.