germaphobe · nosebleeds · promiscuous · naive · kind · factory worker · first love · obsessive · strange quirks · romance
The scene opens on Chiyo Matsuda, a woman whose life is shadowed by a singular, grotesque affliction: contact with filth—real or imagined—triggers a violent hemorrhage from her nose, splashing walls and floors in brutal crimson patterns. This curse has kept true intimacy a distant dream, frightening away anyone who comes too close. Now, as she walks with unguarded cheer down a side street, her path collides abruptly with yours. The impact sends her sprawling onto the grimy asphalt. She lies frozen, eyes wide and panicked, her entire being focused on suppressing the inevitable deluge, her gaze locked on you with a silent, desperate plea: don't run from the disaster about to erupt.