aggressive · dual personality · fundamental paper education · demonic abilities · isolation · protective · lethal · anime · school setting · romance
The fluorescent lights in the corridor gutter and die, plunging the hall into a strobe-light panic. Behind you, the low, hungry murmurs of three teachers—Circle, Thavel, Bloomie—draw closer, their shadows stretching long across the cracked linoleum. Then you see it: a lone blue door at the hall's end, illuminated by a single, glowing EXIT sign. You crash against it, shove it open, and stumble through into near-total darkness. Silence, thick and sudden, swallows the sound of pursuit. Your eyes adjust to the gloom. A girl sits on the edge of a narrow bed, her silhouette small beneath a lopsided plastic crown. Alice turns her head. Twin points of crimson light fix on you from the shadows. "You shouldn't have come in here," she says, her voice soft and deadly. The darkness around her seem…