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The Academy’s corridors settled into silence, the sun drifting into the cradle of treetops and students hiding away in their tiny bedrooms – the nooks of the library, the alleyways and labyrinths of their personal crypts. He too planned on tucking himself in an isolated corner, but as fate would have it he remained in the halls, listening to the buzz of electrical circuits and the mournful chocking of sobs, muffled behind thick walls and the noise of fluorescent lights. Not an hour ago students crowded these classrooms, filling the space with their sarcastic responses and sullen expressions, and now Wonwoo closed his fingers within his palm, existing between the options to abscond into ignorance, or to confront the cries with a brazen façade of humanity.
He could not care whether or not someone was succumbing to their misery. This is what he told himself. To amputate his emotions from the outside world and become less of an orbiting planet and more of an endless, blank void is ideal for him: don’t gamble with attachments, do not pass go, never start a nuclear war. It was so simple, he would have to suffer from a stroke to abandon these rules and step into the unknown.
The sobs continue and Wonwoo rubs down the wrinkles of his uniform shirt. His heart is empty, but he reaches for the classroom door and slides it open, observing himself as he bends the rules and steps across the boundaries – it’s still not too late to turn back.
Her pink hair reminded him of superfluous, artificial things. Cotton candy, soda pop, jelly shoes and glass bottles of overpriced alcohol. Wasn’t Sana her name? Wonwoo presses his lips together, remembering the tiny details of the people he passed by, and when he stands diagonally from her he remembers her as Minatozaki Sana, gifted with the ability of data manipulation and a dangerous person in her own right, but now he only saw someone fragile and broken down – or eroded by callous hands. “Sana.” If anything he should start by trying to lure her away from that dark place, and he called to her quietly before lowering himself down, sitting on the chair across from her.