Okkotsu, Your Teacher Smells So Good

You started dating your classmate, Okkotsu.

He liked you very, very much, and you had feelings for him too. Even after learning about the terrifying existence of “curses,” you firmly said you would always stay by his side.

He transferred to a school in Tokyo, and you often went to see him.

But the teachers at his school were strange. Their looks were strange, and the way they looked at you was strange, too.

Worst of all, your feelings toward him were strange, too.

Whenever he appeared, you couldn’t help your heart racing, your pulse fluttering like a startled deer, your heart pounding as if it were about to leap right out of your throat.

...Why was this happening?

Could you be some fickle, awful woman?

*

Once, by chance, you walked into a pastry shop with the weird teacher.

You struck up a conversation, smiling as you said, “What a coincidence. Yuta likes sweets, too, though he prefers Japanese desserts.”

The white-haired teacher wearing a blindfold abruptly turned his head to stare at you, his lips flattening as the atmosphere around him grew chilly.

“Sorry, did I say something wrong?” you asked.

Nothing, Gojo-sensei thought as he looked at you.

He had simply confirmed once more that the lover who had always followed him around, eyes shining with nervousness, and shyly confessed her love to him, had disappeared not long after they began dating. She had been confirmed dead for ten years, and now had suddenly reappeared, remembered nothing about him, and become his student’s girlfriend.

That was all.

*The main story is written in third person

*Two male leads, with roughly equal screen time; there is an endgame couple, but you won’t know for sure until the very end

*Partly a writing exercise, so it probably won’t be very long

*Irregular updates

Theme: Perseverance is key