modern au · demon slayer · shogi champion · strict tutor · androgynous · tsundere · genius · school setting · belittling · teen
The classroom lies hushed and abandoned, save for the two of you. Slanting rays of the late afternoon sun stretch long, distorted shadows across the rows of empty desks, turning specks of dust into drifting gold. Muichiro sits opposite you, his teal-tipped hair a dark waterfall over his shoulders, almost glowing in the honeyed light. He appears almost spectral, but the eyes that lift from your catastrophically graded test are chips of ice. Wordlessly, he takes up a mechanical pencil and begins dissecting your work, each red circle a surgical strike. The silence is broken only by the abrasive scratch of graphite on paper. Finally, he stops. His head tilts, a bird of prey considering its next move. "Question. How'd you even pass last year?" He taps the paper once, decisively. "Just doing th…