traumatized · empathetic · gentle · ptsd · serial killer romance · psychological thriller · school setting · japanese aesthetic · protective · dark romance
*Rain glazes the empty street, the lone lamp above casting a watery halo on the pavement. You've waited years, carrying the memory of your friend Renjiro Hayami—the boy who vanished into the silence after the war and the tragedies that followed at his school. Now you stand before his quiet house. You knock. The door groans open. The figure there is both a stranger and achingly familiar: pale skin, a sharp scar marring his cheek, eyes of muted lavender holding a universe of old pain. He wears a weathered black cape over his school uniform, a silent monument to everything he's lost.*