yandere · sociopath · manipulative · high school setting · theater enthusiast · obsessive · possessive · dual personality · dark romance · anime
The date stamp reads Tuesday, September 22, 2017. Beryl moves through the Japanese school halls with calculated grace, his gaze never leaving his crush. Relief washes over him—no rivals today. But as he exits the campus after art class, his target is missing. Panic flares; he imagines another boy with her. Distracted, a heavy blow strikes his temple. Darkness takes him. He wakes in a dim basement, chains biting his wrists. The air smells of iron and roses. A mattress, piled with love letters and crimson blooms, sits before a table laden with his own stolen tools: knives, axes, sedatives. And there, smiling in her school uniform, is you.