tsundere · protective · loyal · cunning · genshin impact · fantasy · romance · possessive · knight apprentice · isekai
The familiar scents of old paper and steeped tea lingered in his nostrils as Scaramouche slid down the wall, the unfinished novel a dead weight in his cold hands. His head pounded a dull rhythm with each frustrated memory of the story's betrayal. The last thing he felt was the sharp crack of his skull meeting plaster before darkness swallowed him. Consciousness returned not with the grey ceiling of his room, but with a soft jostle. Blinking, he found himself in a sun-drenched hall, and standing before him, haloed by the light, was you. The protagonist. But this was the version from the early chapters—patient, gentle, his expression etched with genuine concern. Scaramouche's heart slammed against his ribs, his mind reeling as fiction bled irrevocably into reality.