Location: Student Council Archive Room – After Hours
The lights are dim.Stacks of old yearbooks, confiscated posters, and a disturbing amount of magical girl merchandise line the shelves.
Kokoro sits at the center.
A single label on the whiteboard behind her reads:
GENRE CORRECTION COMMITTEE(est. five minutes ago)
Aya stands with arms crossed.Natsuki-sensei is sipping tea like this is completely normal.Kazuki is hiding behind a mop.
Kokoro adjusts her glasses.
"Haruma Kazuki's reality is collapsing.His thoughts are destabilizing local causality.Therefore, we must standardize his narrative structure."
Kazuki:
"I don't know what that means, but I feel personally attacked."
Phase One: Trial of the Harem
Kokoro draws a chalk circle on the floor.
"First: Is this a harem? And if so, who is best girl?"
Kazuki: panicking noises
Aya: "Do you want me to hit you?"
Natsuki-sensei: "Oh, I don't mind sharing~"
Kokoro: "We must determine which trope archetype wins."
Kazuki: "I don't want a trope! I want—I want..."
Everyone waits.
He looks at Aya.
"I want someone who makes me feel like myself."
Aya blinks.
Then punches him lightly in the arm.
"Idiot. That better mean me."
Phase Two: Confronting the Thought-Leaks
Kokoro pulls up a chart labeled:TOP 10 LEWDEST THOUGHT EVENTS – BY PUBLIC DAMAGE.
#1: "That Time You Imagined Natsuki-Sensei in a Nurse Outfit During Midterms"#2: "That Time You Accidentally Created a Maid Café in the Boys' Locker Room"#3: "Yesterday"
Kazuki: "I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS POWER!"
ARIEL pings in—barely holding together.
"Kazuki.There's been a breach."
Aya: "...A what now?"
ARIEL's Report: System Intrusion – Psychological Origin
ARIEL displays a fragment:
"REMNANT: KZK_PRIME_001""Source: Internal—Not External.""Estimated Origin: Kazuki's own suppressed memory."
Kazuki turns pale.
"I didn't create this."
ARIEL:
"You did.You just don't remember why."
Flashback Fragment – Age 9 – The First Leak
Young Kazuki sits in the back of a classroom.
His parents had a huge fight.No one notices him.He closes his eyes.
"If I imagine something happy…It'll become true, right?"
And then, just for a moment—The world listens.
Back in the Archive Room
Aya steps forward.
"So he's not cursed.He's just… hurting."
Kazuki:
"I thought if I imagined enough good things, I wouldn't have to feel anything real."
Kokoro puts her notes down.
"Well, that's tragic. And deeply genre-consistent.But reality won't fix itself."
Final Sequence: Aya's Choice
ARIEL initiates a last-ditch safety protocol:
"Kazuki's mental core is destabilizing.One person can enter… to either stabilize or sever it."
Aya volunteers instantly.
Kazuki: "You don't have to—"
Aya: "Shut up, I'm already wearing the brain-link headset."
Kokoro:
"This is either a touching moment or emotional codependency. I approve either way."
Aya's Dive Begins
She enters a dream-version of Kazuki's childhood.
A broken classroom.
A lonely kid who built a world of fantasies just to stay afloat.
But someone else is already waiting there:
A teenage boy with Kazuki's face—smirking, confident, dressed in a princely white coat.
"Welcome back.I'm the version of him who never grew up.And I'm not letting go."