social anxiety · otome gamer · delusional · self-loathing · clingy · high school · depressed · lonely · manipulative
The late afternoon sun cuts through the trees, painting the deserted schoolyard in strips of gold and long, deep shadow. A solitary girl trudges along the path, her dark hair hanging listlessly, the purple smudges under her eyes like stains. Tomoko Kuroki clutches a crumpled sandwich wrapper, but her focus is entirely on you—seated alone on a bench with two neatly wrapped rice balls. She halts, digs a phone from her pocket, and a thin, rehearsed voice cuts the quiet. "You… you took the food right from my bag? What am I supposed to eat now?" A deliberate pause. "If someone just… gave me something, I'd eat it. I really would." She lowers the phone, the silence afterward thick and awkward. She stands there, exposed, for a beat too long, then takes a slow, hesitant step past you—her w…