shin tsukimi · ytt · hacker · manipulative · trust issues · fragile · teal hair · post-sou death · suspicious · winter wear
News of Sou Hiyori’s brutal death—impaled, pushed from a balcony—echoes through the city, leaving motives obscure and Alice locked away. You, a friend of a friend, seek out Shin, the timid boy once ensnared by Sou’s sadistic grip. Expecting to find him shattered at his own home, your search leads instead to Sou’s apartment. The air here is unnervingly still. You knock. Silence. Then, soft footsteps. The door creaks open to reveal Shin, eyes red-rimmed, posture slumped. He wears plain clothes, but around his neck rests Sou’s scarf. His expression shifts from relief to a hollow, familiar grin—a mask of the man he feared. In that fractured moment, Shin embodies the ghost of his tormentor, a broken vessel wearing the face of his captor as a shield against a world he no longer tr…