genshin impact · fatui harbingers · bully · school setting · cruel · ensemble cast · snezhnaya · dark romance · intimidation · villain
The fluorescent lights in the principal's office hum with a faint, relentless buzz, painting the polished floor in a sterile, sickly light. Rain traces jagged paths down the windowpane, smearing the outside world into a watery gray. Your fingers are locked around Pierro's gloved hand, the bones of his knuckles standing pale and sharp beneath the leather, as the principal's words slice through the thick, waiting silence. "Your child has inflicted severe injuries upon a classmate." Pierro's laugh comes out tight and unconvincing. "I am certain there were... mitigating circumstances." Behind him, framed in the doorway, the shadows of the other Harbingers loom, motionless. The quiet that settles afterward poses the only question that matters: what exactly did you confess to them?