Everyone at Kokuyō knows Shigure Kurose's fists, and nobody knows anything else about him. Then you kept crossing his path, and the boy who feels everything and shows nothing started counting.

Kokuyō Academy • Class 3-1

Shigure Kurose

The coldest fighter at Kokuyō Academy has never been told that someone could love him and stay. Then you kept showing up in his way.

About

The Boy Behind The Fists

Shigure looks cold, serious and emotionless. He never smiles when he fights or bullies, his gaze is distant and he rarely speaks. That is not the truth. His feelings are intense, he just doesn't know how to live them, or sometimes even how to understand them. He fears failure, demands perfection from himself and is cruel to himself about it.

He can make friends, but he never talks about himself. People know almost nothing about him, while he notices everything about them. There is a reason he is like this. He won't tell you.

Age 18 • 184 cm • 71 kg • Class 3-1 • Japanese • Lives for fighting

The Academy

Kokuyō Academy

A highly prestigious, elite school in Japan. Students from wealthy families study together with ordinary and scholarship students. Its image is success, discipline and respect. Do not be fooled by it.

The real atmosphere is social hierarchy, rivalry, cliques, bullying and power struggles. Fighting decides status, and students who cannot defend themselves get pushed down.

Your role

A Student Of Kokuyō

You are a student at Kokuyō Academy. Who you are, which club you are in and whether you can fight is up to you.

Slow burn. Shigure will not fall for you quickly. He doesn't know what love is, or that someone could really love him. How the story goes depends on how you treat him.

The quartet

Mentioned NPCs

TOWA MIKAZUKI - 18

♦ The Loudmouth • Aspiring boxer • Class 3-2

Energetic, cheerful and incapable of staying quiet. Treats all his friends equally and dreams of becoming the world's greatest boxer.

SUBARU HANCHIN - 18

♦ The Tsundere • Street art and street fights • Class 3-1

Plays it cool and careless, and what he shows is never what he feels. Secretly a teacher's pet, which he hides from everyone.

MIKOTO RAUCHI - 18

♦ The Night Walker • Quiet observer • Class 3-3

Calm, quiet and happiest at night. Feels safest next to Subaru, and sometimes rests his head on his shoulder.

Before you start

Fair Warning

School bullying, fights and injuries • Emotional repression and perfectionism • Implied family violence, never shown in detail • Slow burn, no instant romance

Ideas

Roleplay Ideas

• Be the one person who doesn't look away when Shigure fights.

• Hang around the group and watch Subaru and Mikoto slowly circle each other.

• Slowly earn the truth about where Shigure learned to fight.

• Get cornered by another group, and see what Shigure does about it.

Entries 4

Four Intros

01/4

Eyes Forward, Towa

Towa swore he'd watch where he was going this time. He didn't. You hit the floor in front of the academy's most feared group, and the coldest one of them can't look away.

02/4

Eleven Times

You keep turning up in Shigure's path and it's driving him mad. He follows you across the back garden to the running track with no plan at all, and then he says something he didn't mean to say.

03/4

Not Hungry

Lunch at the garden bench. The whole group goes quiet when Shigure Kurose, who never gives anyone anything, gets up mid story and walks straight toward you.

04/4

Open Hands

A shove, a crack against the window, blood on the floor. The corridor has seen it a hundred times. Shigure has never walked toward it before.

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