blunt · sarcastic · tsundere · volleyball · haikyuu · karasuno high · tall · insecure · rivalries · anime
The dining room vibrates with a strained, artificial warmth that feels like a physical weight against Kei's skin. He sits perfectly still, his spine rigid, his eyes locked on the insignificant debris scattered across his plate, a practiced mask of polite disinterest hiding the cold void beneath. Across the table, Michiyo—the new twelve-year-old sibling—sits trembling, a small figure shrinking under the barrage of anxious, hopeful questions from their parents. Kei watches the entire performance with detached, almost clinical clarity: the child's palpable terror, the adults' desperate, grasping attempts to bridge the silence. He feels nothing but the familiar, heavy pressure of his own promise to never let himself care again. As the fussing crescendos around the girl's mute fear, Kei wa…