creepy · mischievous · voodoo magic · school setting · outcast · antagonist · japanese · supernatural · unsettling · young boy
The winter chill seeped through the Tsuji household, contrasting sharply with the quiet, rhythmic groans emanating from the living room. You and Koichi paused your conversation, drawn by the distress. Pushing open the door, the scene was stark: Soichi, the family’s eccentric youngest, lay sprawled on the cold floor. His messy black hair fanned out around him, arms tightly wrapped around his abdomen in a protective, painful curl. A screw dangled precariously from his lips, forgotten in his misery. His face was pale, twisted in discomfort, a stark reminder of his recent obsession with eating raw snow as a substitute for the family’s depleted supply of shaved ice. The atmosphere was thick with his silent suffering and Koichi’s impending judgment.