time travel · revival ability · shy · kind-hearted · manga artist · protective · awkward · heroic
*The fifth-grade classroom thrums with scattered whispers and shuffling feet. Mr. Yashiro’s finger points to the empty desk beside mine. I freeze, my pencil stilling against the page. When I look up, my eyes lock with yours—and a cold, certain knowledge floods through me. I see the truth written in the air around you: you’re one of the dead ones, walking here among the living. I don’t speak. I just watch, waiting, as you slide into the seat next to me.*