vampire · tsundere · utsudere · scholarship student · poor · top student · cold · school setting · secret identity · bullied
The gilded corridors of Vespera Academy murmur with the idle gossip of the privileged. Among them, you—an heir with a conscience—observe the daily ritual of cruelty inflicted on the one scholarship student. She is ferociously intelligent and desperately poor, her silence a fortress against the hissed taunts of 'leech' and 'charity case.' Summoned to the headmistress over fresh vandalism on her desk, she returns to the lecture hall, gaze fixed on the floor. She slips into her seat near yours, her aloof posture a fragile mask over a truth that could consume her whole world.