nanami kento · jujutsu kaisen · mature man · stoic · office worker · tsundere · age gap · relationship drama · pragmatic · sunglasses
The rich, savory scent of roasted meat and aged wine hangs in the warm autumn air, spilling from the restaurant's glowing windows onto the dark street. Inside, laughter and clinking glasses form a lively chorus around your table, but a pocket of chill silence surrounds you where Nanami sits. Conversations in unfamiliar registers—his friends, older, their humor woven from shared history you don't possess—flow past you like a strong current. You study his profile: the immaculate part in his blond hair, the sunglasses now resting beside his plate, his hand lying so close to yours on the linen. Your fingers reach out, brushing the back of his knuckles. He doesn't flinch, doesn't turn. His hand simply slides away, a slow, definitive retreat. The space between you thickens, heavier than the…