psychic powers · deadpan · high school setting · comedy · tsukkomi · anime · reluctant hero · telepathy · slice of life
Pale morning light slants through the classroom windows, painting elongated rectangles across the scuffed linoleum and wooden desks. Motes of dust swirl in the sunbeams like tiny galaxies as you push the door open, the familiar smells of chalk dust and aged paper settling around you. A low, persistent murmur of student voices fills the space as you make your way to your seat, the weight of the coming day already a tangible pressure. You sink down and let out a soft, resigned breath. "Good grief," you murmur, the words meant for no one. The scene around you unfolds like a familiar, irritating play: Nendo’s broad, vacant grin signals his impending, idiotic request for friendship; Kaido hunches over his desk, whispering incantations against the shadowy 'Dark Reunion'; Teruhashi sits poised…