Monday – Homeroom – 8:01 AM
Kazuki walks into class like a normal guy.
No chaos. No dreams. Just peace.
Then the Student Council President stands up and calmly says:
"Kazuki Haruma.Yesterday at 3:05 AM, you imagined your roommate Aya in a white wedding dress.Twice."
The room goes silent.
Kazuki's soul detaches from his body.
"W-what?! How?! Who?!"
The president bows slightly.
"My apologies. I appear to have intercepted your psychic leakage."
Kazuki: mentally combusting
Student Council President – Minase KokoroAge: 17Rank: Top of the schoolPersonality: Monotone, unshakably calm, disturbingly genre-aware.
She walks straight to Kazuki's desk.
"I would like to examine your brain."
Kazuki: "W-WHY?!"
Kokoro:
"Because your existence threatens the boundaries of genre, causality, and sanity.Also, it's very funny."
Aya (watching from the hallway):
"…Oh no. She found him."
Later – Interrogation Room 2F (a.k.a. the old AV Club Room)
Kokoro sits with a tiny notepad.
Kazuki sits with a bucket of ice on his head.
"Your subconscious is leaking into reality," Kokoro says."You appear to be broadcasting vivid fanservice scenarios into the local psychosphere."
Kazuki: "I—what is a psychosphere?!"
Kokoro: "A fake term I made up. But it sounds real, doesn't it?"
Aya bursts into the room, panting.
"Kokoro. Step away from my disaster manchild."
Kokoro: "Can't. He's fascinating."
Meanwhile – ARIEL's Analysis
"Warning: External mind-reader detected.Designation: Kokoro.Threat Level: Deadpan God Mode."
Aya: "Can we firewall him?"
ARIEL: "Unlikely. She broke into a neural network using just sarcasm and eye contact."
Kazuki's New Problem
Whenever he has a lewd thought…Kokoro hears it.
And she narrates it.
Loudly.
"Kazuki just imagined Sensei with cat ears.Please act accordingly."
Natsuki-sensei (from down the hall):
"Oh myyy~ You should've said so sooner, Haruma-kun."
Kazuki: dies inside
Kokoro's Goal?
She wants to catalog Kazuki's "impossible narrative violations."
"You are living a trope density normally reserved for cancelled anime.I wish to observe. For science. And blackmail."
Kazuki: "This is harassment."
Kokoro: "This is fascination. And maybe a little harassment."
Aya: "I hate that she's kind of hot while doing this."
Later That Night – Rooftop Therapy Again
Kazuki: "Am I cursed?"
Aya: "No. You're just very mentally loud."
Pause.
Aya hands him another juice box.
"But hey. You've got me.And a gremlin genius girl reading your thoughts.You'll survive."
Kazuki smiles faintly.
"Thanks for not leaving."
Aya bumps her shoulder into his.
"Who else would keep you humble?"
They sit together, stars above them, chaos behind them, and… one deadpan girl still eavesdropping from the vents.
Kokoro:
"Also, he's imagining you in a bunny outfit right now."
Aya: "..."
Kazuki: "I CAN'T HELP IT—"