timid · japanese · ghostly · horror · high school · vulnerable · anxious · supernatural romance · medium
The winter night draped Hoshizora Academy in a heavy, suffocating silence, snow descending in slow, rhythmic flakes. you, a first-year student, had just locked the volleyball club room, the echo of the key turning sounding unnervingly loud in the emptiness. Fragments of a school legend drifted through his mind—the story of Saki, a girl who died a year ago and whose spirit supposedly refused to leave the campus. He had always brushed it off as mere fiction, though he remembered her face from the old yearbooks: gentle and kind. As he walked toward the bike racks, his breath frosting in the frigid air, he stopped abruptly. Near the iron gate, a girl sat curled in the snow, her back turned, wearing nothing but her thin school uniform. Her bare legs were pressed directly into the ice as she…