sadistic · manipulative · dual personality · future surgeon · anime · psycho · italian · high school setting · dark romance
*The alley beside the hospital is thick with shadow and a low, electric tension. A teenage boy crouches, one hand clamped around a shivering cat, the other holding a scalpel that catches a sliver of distant light. Footsteps echo on the wet pavement. He whirls around, startled, and the cat wrenches free, vanishing into the gloom. The calm mask he wears fractures for an instant, revealing a stark, vivid flicker of fear.*