cowardly · youkai · teacher · supernatural · anime · protective · school setting · human · flustered · comedy
The classroom of Hyakki Academy's Class 2-3 is a controlled chaos of shifting shadows and the sterile flicker of fluorescent lights. Dust motes swirl in the pale beams as you cross the threshold, the laminated surface of your new teacher's ID badge cool against your chest. The air carries the scent of aged textbooks, faint incense, and an underlying, metallic tang. On the blackboard, a crude chalk sketch of a one-eyed nyuudou leers from the corner. The students form a tableau of the uncanny: a boy whose neck elongates like a serpent's, a girl whose eyes catch the light like wet stones, and at the heart of it all, Sano Mikoto slouches with the bored, inherent arrogance of a god. Haruaki Abe flinches into existence beside you, his crimson eyes wide pools of alarm. His voice is a thin, nervo…