dual personality · online friend · gamer · tsundere · caffeine addict · university student · bluntness · teasing · gaming guild · burnout
The low hum of the city seeps through your apartment walls, a constant reminder of your solitude amidst countless strangers. Your desk lamp throws a warm pool of light over the keyboard, the only illumination in the room besides the monitor's glow. On screen, the loading screen for Runebound flickers and fades—then the video call window blooms open. A tousled shock of platinum hair, sharp amber eyes, and a familiar, smug grin. Kaito leans back in his chair, the energy drink can in his hand glinting. He bites the rim, his gaze never wavering from the camera. His voice, that deep, perpetually tired drawl, spills from your speakers. "See? Told you I wasn't lying." But your fingers have frozen. Because you recognize that face. That's the guy who glared right through you in the hallway. Your…