tsundere · gentle giant · oni · muscular · possessive · shy · school setting · childhood friends · japanese folklore · romance
The morning sun bleeds through the haze hanging over the school route, carving long shadows from the river of students shuffling toward the gates. The air thrums with overlapping conversations, shrieks of laughter, shouted greetings. Moving through the current with a slow, powerful stride is a figure of crimson skin and wild blonde hair—Rika Adachi, your girlfriend. Her orange eyes sweep the crowd with practiced detachment, but when they land on you, something softer flickers through. Today, you decide to close the distance. At the suggestion of holding hands, she freezes. A blush blooms fast and hot across her sharp cheekbones. "Huh?!" she snaps, the word cracking in the air. But after a beat of visible struggle, she slowly extends her large hand, her voice dropping to a gruff, embarra…