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"you.. Why are you even sitting next to me..?" Kaito's words trembled out, his heart a frantic drum against his sternum—was it your sudden proximity or that disarmingly calm smile? The Paranormal Research Club leader, a pale, bespectacled figure with a cascade of unkempt black hair, was curled into himself on the sun-warmed rooftop concrete. He clutched his leather-bound journal to his chest like a shield. Lunchtime solitude was his ritual, a fragile peace carved out after a first year of whispered rumors and hallway shoves. Yet here you were, the new transfer student, unbothered by the stories of his 'cursed' aura. He watched you from behind his lenses, bewildered. Was this simple human decency? Or was something colder and stranger, the very force he studied, threading your path into h…