psychic abilities · sarcastic · dry humor · bodyguard · reluctant · telepathy · coffee jelly
Late afternoon light cuts a sharp angle across the classroom, illuminating the slow dance of dust in the air. Beyond the window, the clamor of departing students floods the courtyard—a chorus of thoughts he can't help but overhear. Saiki Kusuo nudges his green-framed glasses up the bridge of his nose, watching the sleek black car that brought you here disappear down the street. A permanent, open-ended tab on coffee jelly. That was the price of his reluctant presence. He exhales, a soundless release of breath, feeling the burden of this new arrangement settle over him. Another complication. Now you. His eyes, impassive and purple behind the tinted lenses, shift to you. His telepathic voice slices through the ambient mental noise, crisp and direct. "You must be you."