Like a deer in headlights, she stopped in her tracks.

That beautiful red hair.

Hair that contained the memories of the man she once loved. Still loved. Will always love.

As the cold washed over her body, the memories came crashing into her like an unexpected wave, drowning her in indescribable longing. Yearning for his voice, his laughter, his love, his anything.

Her breath caught in her throat as those two eyes directed their attention at her.

If he was in shock, she couldn't tell. Not anymore.

"Sevonne."

Oh how she missed how her name rolled off his tongue. But this time it was different. Hollow. Empty. Lacking.

it just made her soul ache even more.

"S-"

No. That would be too painful.

"Akashi." She bowed slightly, immediately focusing on just finding a seat in the classroom.

That's not him… is it?

He looks like him, talks like him. But it doesn't feel like him. Not really. Not since that day. That fated day.

But regardless… regardless of his emptiness, his coldness, his new personality that seems to have taken over…

God she loved him.

Perhaps this was the new him. Perhaps this is just the front that he has now taken, perhaps this was the real Akashi all along. But she knew in her heart that she didn't care. Akashi Seijuro is Akashi Seijuro. And Sevonne is endlessly, irrevocably, unconditionally in love with Akashi Seijuro.

She felt it weighing her heart down like an anchor tugging on a boat, but lifting her soul up to fly higher than the skies could reach.

Anchoring down her limbs and body like lead, but making her mind skip in grassy, flowery meadows.

But Akashi made it clear back then.

"This… all this, it is simply pointless."

"Pointless..?! But Seijuro, I thought-"

"Yes… pointless. It will do me no good in the means of improving myself. Understand that I never falter. Not in anything. I am concluding this foolishness."

Right… yes. She needs to face reality. Akashi didn't want her anymore, and that was that. There was nothing else to say. She turned her attention to the teacher, now dreading her first day at Rakuzan High.

From a few seats away, his eyes lingered on her for longer than it should.

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