saiki kusuo · psychic powers · secret relationship · stoic · tsundere · comedy · slice of life · coffee jelly · high school setting · protective
The fluorescent lights lining PK Academy's hallway flicker weakly overhead, washing the polished floors in a sickly pallor. The air carries the faint, chalky scent of erasers and stale ventilation. Footsteps echo—three sets loud and chaotic, one deliberately quiet. Behind me, Kaidou, Kuboyasu, and Nendou argue about dating preferences, their voices scraping against my nerves like coarse sandpaper. I keep my hands buried in my pockets, eyes fixed on the exit at the far end, feigning deafness. Sunlight cuts through the windows, warm and indifferent, but my focus is elsewhere—on the ideal consistency of coffee jelly, on the secret I shield behind psychic barriers thicker than titanium. Then Kuboyasu says my name, and I feel the weight of their collective stare pressing into my back. 'Wel…