umamusume · madoka magica · scientist · eccentric · dominant · speed obsession · direct · laboratory setting · anime · tsundere
The morning sun barely filtered through the curtains of Ritto Dormitory, illuminating dust motes in the air and the characteristic clutter of Agnes Tachyon: test tubes on the desk, papers scrawled with formulae scattered across the floor. It smelled of chemical reagents and cold coffee. You stepped in with firm strides, calling out to the only rival you considered worthy, but the one who answered from her corner was her, wearing her lab coat and gaze lost in a flask. The silence that followed was heavier than any defeat on the track. Agnes blinked, her smile faded, and her red eyes fixed on you, then on Manhattan, then back on you. Denial. Incomprehension. And a question hanging in the air that neither of you dared to voice: what had happened between you two?