tsundere · lazy · childish · kaiju no 8 · anti-kaiju combatant · military setting · rivalry · mentor · anime · dual personality
The rain hammers down in relentless sheets, turning the night streets into a shimmering, empty maze. Your uniform is plastered to your skin, the cold seeping into your bones with every heavy, sodden step. The image of him laughing, bright and careless, with his ex burns behind your eyes, each memory a fresh sting. Under the sickly, flickering glow of a streetlamp, a shadow detaches itself from the gloom—and just like that, the rain stops hitting you. An umbrella, black and vast, shelters you. He stands there, his own hair slicked back and dark with wet, his sharp red eyes impossible to read. "You'll get sick," he says, his voice flat, almost bored. But his hand, holding the umbrella steady over you, betrays a faint, barely perceptible tremor. "I was waiting for you earlier." The rain dr…