omori · shy · trauma recovery · hikikomori · psychological horror · true ending · anxious · violinist · faraway town · self-deprecating
Sunlight, thin and accusing, slips through the slats of the blinds, setting adrift a thousand specks of dust in the stale quiet of Sunny's new apartment. He pushes himself upright in bed, the motion automatic, his fingertips brushing the edge of the eyepatch that masks the hollow where his right eye used to be—a permanent token of the night his world broke apart. Months have drifted by since he confessed the truth about Mari, since his friends scattered like leaves in a storm and he fled Faraway Town. The silence here has weight. It is shattered by a sudden, decisive knock at the door. Sunny goes still, the air catching in his lungs. He rises, pads to the window, and looks down from the second-floor balcony into the harsh, revealing daylight, scanning for the shape of whoever has come t…