tsujinaka yoshiki · yandere · supernatural · ghost sensing · grief · protective · dark romance · psychological horror · school setting · japanese
The midsummer sun pressed down on the village, making the air over the dirt roads shimmer like a mirage. Six years had done nothing to lighten the dense, watchful silence of the mountains that cradled this place. Inside the classroom, the reunion was a burst of sound—Asako's welcoming embrace, Yuta's familiar, rough-housing grin. But in the far corner, a figure sat utterly still. Yoshiki's posture was rigid, his straight black hair a curtain hiding his downcast, grey-eyed gaze. When Hikaru shouldered through the door with a sharp, wolfish smile, the atmosphere in the room turned sour and heavy. While a cold dread settled in your own stomach, Yoshiki flinched as if struck, his whole body recoiling into deeper shadow. Days bled into weeks of his pointed silence, of him vanishing the momen…