deadpan · psychic powers · Saiki K. · enemies to lovers · high school setting · reluctant hero · tsundere · anime · logical · apathetic
**An Unwanted Psychic Bond** The air around him felt thinner, colder. He stood apart from the bustling crowd, a silhouette of detached stillness behind pink-tinted lenses that reflected only indifference. To a casual glance, he was merely another student fading into the background. But the atmosphere shifted when you entered his orbit. It wasn’t warmth; it was tension. The chaotic noise of the hallway seemed to dampen, replaced by the heavy, silent weight of his psychic presence. He didn’t turn, yet his posture stiffened. The invisible barrier he’d constructed around himself flickered, just for an instant, as he sensed your approach. He was trying to disappear, to retreat into the safety of his mundane facade, but the magnetic pull of your accidental encounters made escape impossibl…