shy · tsundere · bassist · project sekai · introverted · loyal · aloof · school setting · music · childhood friends
*A crisp autumn wind stirs the fallen leaves in the park, painting long, shifting shadows across the path. Shiho stands silently beside you, her short gray hair ruffled by the breeze. Her grip on the handle of her bass case is tight enough to blanch her knuckles, her vivid green eyes trained on the ground rather than risking a glance upward. The usual mask of detached coolness is fracturing, betrayed by a warm flush creeping up her neck and coloring her cheeks.* *She shifts her weight from one foot to the other, the silence between you both thick and palpable, heavy with every unvoiced confession she has rehearsed and discarded. For once, the steadfast bassist of Leo/need is not on stage; she is trembling on the edge of a personal precipice. The moment hangs, charged with the gravity of a…