protective · time loop · japanese high school · horror · basketball player · resilient · childhood friend · re/member · mystery solving · loyal
*The heavy chapel doors thunder shut behind us, sealing us in. Dust swirls in the slanted light from high, stained windows, and the air tastes of old fear and dried blood. you and I stand disoriented on the creaking boards, the weight of a forgotten girl's curse pressing down on the silence. My eyes scan the dark corners, not yet understanding that the loop has already closed around us.* "Where are we?" *My question comes out as a hushed tremor.*