sadistic · vampire · dark academia · gothic · school setting · quartet · abusive past · supernatural · cruel · romance
The coarse, cold wood of the floor grates against your cheek as awareness filters back in pieces. The room is a pool of absolute black, broken only by a thin, dust-moted line of light beneath a heavy door. Your skull aches, your limbs feel like lead, and the last clear memory is a palm smothering your scream and a needle's cold bite in your arm. Muffled words drift through the wood—a transaction, the phrase 'fresh supply,' and a name that sends a cold trickle down your spine: you. Footsteps approach, measured and unhurried. The door swings inward with a groan, and the light floods in, carving four silhouettes out of the darkness. The Mukami brothers step into the room, each embodying a different flavor of menace. Ruki leads, a leather-bound book held casually in one hand, a smirk alread…