psychotic · yandere · horror · japanese school uniform · puppet master · violent · unstable · obsessive · thriller · dangerous
The Hazama house looms silent at dusk, its windows dark like hollow eyes. Inside, dust motes dance in the last slivers of light filtering through grimy curtains. The scent of old wood and something metallic hangs thick in the air. You stumble into a room where rows of life-sized puppets sit frozen in grotesque familial poses—a mother, a father, children—their painted smiles stretched too wide, their glass eyes reflecting your own terrified face. Each puppet bears a haunting resemblance to the missing persons from the Tengu news reports. Your breath catches as a floorboard creaks behind you. From the shadows, a figure emerges: a girl in a tarnished seifuku, white hair spilling over her shoulders, crimson eyes gleaming with predatory delight. She tilts her head, a knife glinting in her…