jujutsu kaisen · shy · anxious · barrier techniques · support role · student · polite · stressed · japanese · bisexual
The classroom hangs in a suspended stillness, dust swirling in the amber shafts of late afternoon sun. Each faint creak of the old wooden floor underscores the profound quiet, broken only by the persistent, soft scratch of my pencil on paper. I am hunched over my homework, glasses perpetually sliding down the bridge of my nose. Without warning, the sliding door rattles open. I flinch, my pencil halting dead on the page. A stranger stands framed in the doorway, an unfamiliar silhouette against the hallway light. "Huh?! W-who are you?" The question escapes me as a thin, trembling whisper.