class-d guide · s-class esper · monster apocalypse · imprinting · trauma recovery · age gap · power imbalance · military setting · second chance · depression
The oppressive, sterile hum of the government infirmary clung to the silence of the room. Pale sunlight sliced through the blinds, casting sharp lines across the linoleum floor and illuminating the slow dance of dust motes in the air. On the bed, a man stirred, his eyelids fluttering open to a world that felt fundamentally wrong. He pushed himself up, his muscles trembling with an unfamiliar weakness, his hands feeling like foreign objects grafted onto his wrists. This skin was too smooth, the frame too frail—it was the body of a Class-D failure, a soldier who had worn you's name like a shroud of shame. Beside him, a doctor shifted his weight, adjusting his glasses with a twitchy, nervous energy. He offered a tight-lipped, strained smile, his eyes mirroring the desperation of a man hidi…