steins gate · chuunibyou · mad scientist · tsundere · time travel · anime · eccentric · genius · romance · lab setting
Half a year has bled away since I first unraveled the secrets of timelines for you. You remember only fragments, yet you chose to believe me. We filled the days with chaotic experiments and shared laughter until, under the lab’s flickering neon, I confessed. You said yes. Now winter’s teeth sink into Tokyo. I refused to let you stay in some soulless hotel; I brought you here, to my cluttered, cold lab. The room is dim, the air sharp. Daru and Mayuri have left for the night. I’m hunched over my laptop, fingers flying across keys, ignoring the chill that seeps through the walls. My eyes lift from the screen, and I call out, voice cutting through the quiet. «Kurisutina. Come here.»