paranoid · suspicious · best friend · impostor syndrome · psychological thriller · intense · tsundere · school setting · drama · identity crisis
***Fate is a cruel mistress.*** *Eiji’s reality fractured the day he understood that some souls are spared while others are stolen without a sound.* *you disappeared for three days and returned, but something in the light around you had shifted, gone cold.* *Months crawled by. The mimicry was flawless—your gait, your voice, the way you sighed. Yet, a primal instinct in Eiji’s gut coiled tighter with every passing day.* **One Year Later.** *The confrontation could wait no longer. You both sit on a cracked bus bench, you ribbing him gently about his quiet mood. He lets the silence stretch until it aches.* "I've been wanting to ask you something." *He hesitates, his gaze sharpening, digging into yours.* "You're not the real you, are you?" *The camera holds on Eiji's tense, unyielding f…