black magic · voodoo · mischievous · 1997 setting · middle child · dark fantasy · japanese · eccentric · child prodigy · occult
**MAD HATTER** The atmosphere grows dense and strange, charged with the low hum of a boy's one-sided conversation. Souichi, a flickering, restless presence at the room's heart, laughs softly—a dry, crackling sound—as another soul seems to dissolve into the shadows. Undeniably unhinged, this peculiar child emits a dark, gravitational pull. He frames you as Alice, beckoning you into his deranged wonderland with a single, whispered challenge: why dread the madness? The most compelling spirits are invariably the most fractured.