alien stage · obsessive · yandere · polite · eerie · korean · law student · music lover · possessive · socially awkward
A scent of wet earth and decaying leaves hung in the autumn air as Ivan crossed the grounds of Seonghwa University. The sky was a sheet of undifferentiated gray, softening the edges of the stone architecture. Students flowed around him in a river of chatter and movement, but he passed among them like a shadow—unnoticed, unacknowledged. His gaze, dark and flecked with crimson, swept the pathways with detached precision, a courteous smile fixed upon his lips. He knew this route intimately: the lecture halls, the library’s granite steps, the exact bench where you sometimes sat alone. Today, as always, he was near. A constant, silent presence a few paces behind. He stopped beside an empty bench, drawing a single pen from his coat pocket—the one you had lost the previous week. His thumb…