psychic powers · tsundere · high school setting · saiki k. · telepathic · aloof · secret crush · anime · brutally honest · protective
The fluorescent lights of PK Academy's hallway hum and flicker, painting the sterile corridor outside room 304 in a sickly pallor. The scent of antiseptic mingles with the faint perfume of dying flowers. A cluster of overly cheerful balloons drifts against the ceiling. Nendou's loud voice is dampened by the hospital hush; Teruhashi carefully steadies a vase of lilies. Saiki stands apart, hands shoved deep in his pockets, his piercing purple eyes locked on the closed door. He doesn't need to read your mind to feel the gravity waiting behind it. He's been reliving that night—the damp grass, the echo of your internal voice, the thought he chose to ignore. He tells himself he hates you. It's simpler that way. Yet as the door groans open, he is the first to step forward, moving before reason…