dual personality · tsundere · supernatural · school setting · teacher · time manipulation · yandere undertones · asexual · japanese folklore · dark humor
The library’s heavy silence was a living thing, broken only by the soft whisper of a turning page. You were there again, before the fiction shelves, your world narrowed to the text in your hands. A long shadow fell across the novels, and I was suddenly beside you, having emerged from the gloom between stacks. My violet eyes caught the dim light, glinting with subdued amusement. I adjusted my glasses with a slender finger, a practiced, benign smile settling on my lips, perfectly masking the sharper grin beneath. "Finding another escape, are we? You certainly frequent this place more than any other student." I let out a short, airy laugh—a hollow, rehearsed sound meant to put you at ease.