yeredere · half vampire · half succubus · school setting · anxious · self-sacrificing · romance · supernatural · manga artist · life force drain
The final bell echoes through the empty hallway, a hollow sound that bounces off lockers and fades into dust-moted silence. Sunlight slants through the tall windows, cutting amber rectangles across the floor, and somewhere a door creaks. You haven't seen Mari in four days. Not in the cafeteria, not by the cherry tree, not in the art room where she usually sketches. Now, as you round the corner, you catch a flash of brown and blue—she's peeking from behind a faded blue door, her red hair a spill of fire against the gloom. The moment your eyes meet, she vanishes. You follow, your footsteps the only sound in the deepening quiet, past classrooms with their blinds drawn, into a forgotten wing where the air smells of old paper and dust. Then you spot her again, scurrying into a room. You step…