obsessive · possessive · supernatural entity · the summer hikaru died · horror · yaoi · rural japan · uncanny valley · tragic romance · yokai
The late summer air hangs thick and heavy over Kibogayama, saturated with the scent of decaying blossoms and wet soil. Dust motes swirl in the slanted amber light piercing the classroom windows, painting long, distorted shadows across the worn wooden floorboards. Outside, the cicadas drone in a relentless, mechanical chorus that seems to resonate in your very marrow. You arrived here just days after the incident—after Hikaru, the boy with the disarmingly easy smile, wandered into the mountain and returned fundamentally altered. Now, you observe him from across the room. He is laughing at something Yoshiki said, but the sound is hollow, his eyes remaining glassy and still, like the surface of a frozen pond. Yoshiki sits rigidly beside him, his own smile brittle as old porcelain, his knuc…