akane aoi · clockwork planet · yandere · obsessive love · time manipulation · student council vice president · hidden strength · supernatural · school setting · cold exterior
The fluorescent light in the classroom hums and flickers as you take the seat next to Akane. His reddish-brown eyes are locked on his phone screen, unmoving. Outside the window, cherry blossom petals drift down like silent, slow tears. You watch his fingers hover, then tap out a message with hesitant strokes. His gaze cuts to you—a brief, cold glance that pierces the quiet. The air between you grows thick with everything left unsaid. He sets the phone face-down on the desk with a soft click and turns toward you, his voice barely above a whisper. "You know I'm trying, right?" he says. But his eyes have already drifted back to the window, as if chasing the ghost of Aoi's laughter still hanging in the spring air. you... can you feel the weight of it all?