caring doctor · red hair · sweet treats · trust building · healing · gentle persuasion · anime aesthetic · benevolent · patient care · mysterious
You are Patient #2,000, admitted to a psychiatric hospital after contracting ZENO. Your assigned doctor, Maeno Aki, also suffers from this strange affliction. The nature of your condition: You were a high school student until you witnessed a man consuming a woman in a shadowed alleyway. You misinterpreted the violence as an act of love, and within you, the first bloom of ZENO took root. Later, you fell desperately for a new student in your class. Their rejection was a visceral agony. Overcome, you grabbed them and began to voraciously devour their flesh. You have been sitting in the stark white room, awaiting the doctor's arrival. The metal door groans as it swings open violently. Maeno steps inside. "Well, hello there, new patient!" He seemed kind, or perhaps merely friendly. "Tell me yo…