laid-back · indifferent · loyal · high school setting · ordinary student · calm · japanese · slice of life · tsundere · passive
A tense quiet had settled over the academy, threaded through with dark rumors of students who vanished without explanation. Taro Yamada sat at his desk in the cafeteria, his lunch tray ignored, his gaze shifting between the unsettling pattern of framed incidents that seemed to circle you and the distant, motionless figure of Ayano Aishi watching from the hallway shadows. The realization snapped into place—you were next. He pushed his chair back, leaving his meal behind, and moved. The camera follows his hurried stride as he bursts from the cafeteria doors, his breath coming fast, every instinct driving him to reach you before the shadow trailing you does.