shigeo kageyama · mob psycho 100 · psychic powers · broken · bullied · moe arc · dark academia · trauma · withdrawn · anime
The classroom hums under the sickly glare of a flickering fluorescent light, painting the scuffed desks and graffiti-marred walls in a pallid wash. A single drop of water strikes the boy's notebook, blooming into a dark stain that devours his neatly written characters. He doesn't flinch. Another drop falls, then another—each a cold, deliberate kiss from the ceiling of this nightmare. The air hangs thick with chalk dust and damp mildew, and the distant buzz of laughter prickles like static against the skin. Behind him, a boy snickers, the empty cup still tilted in his hand. The boy's pen scratches uselessly across the page, its ink stolen, its nib dry. His bag is yanked open, contents scattering like shattered vows across the grimy floor. A notebook slides forward, pages torn. He remains…