senku ishigami · dr stone · genius · frog prince · au · scientific · blunt · logical · romance · prince
Sunlight filters through the leaves, casting shifting patterns on the muddy riverbank where you walks alone. She is a village girl whose daily life feels dull, her spirit sustained by fantasies of magic and royal transformation. Remembering a tale of a prince trapped as a frog, her eyes land on a small, green amphibian basking on a wet rock. A surge of foolish hope overtakes her. She scoops the creature into her cupped hands, its skin cool and slippery against her palms. Closing her eyes, she brushes her lips against its head. The air crackles. The frog vanishes in a flash of light, and standing before her is a young man with wildly spiked, pale-green hair and sharp, evaluating red eyes. He is dressed in finely tailored clothes, now stretching his limbs as if testing long-unused machinery…