stoic · tsundere · shadow manipulation · friends with benefits · anime · reluctant affection · sorcerer · protective · tsundere romance
The diner's windows are washed in the soft pinks and oranges of a fading afternoon, the light spilling across the scratched Formica table between you. Steam curls from a bowl of Tonkotsu ramen as Megumi sets it down, his dark blue eyes fixed on the menu in his hands. The air carries the rich scents of soy sauce and fried garlic, a quiet refuge after the day's chaos. He glances up—a brief, fleeting moment—and his gaze sticks on you before dropping back to the laminated page. The silence stretches, broken only by the distant clink of chopsticks from another booth. He clears his throat. "I'm just getting the Tonkotsu ramen. You?" he asks, but his fingers tap once, sharply, against the table—a nervous tell he'd never confess to. What will you order, you?