After Dating Tomie

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Aoki Tomie’s countless twisted admirers turned my life into a mess, leaving me anxious and on edge every day.

It went on until the whole class descended into madness. I couldn’t take the fear anymore. After things were settled, I ran to Tomie in tears and apologized. I shouldn’t have written him a love letter. I begged him to leave me alone. I’d been bewitched by his looks and lost my mind. It was all my fault.

The beautiful, black-haired boy looked at me coolly, then suddenly smiled, his breathtaking beauty as tempting as an evil spirit. “Actually, you’re safest when you’re with me.”

He was right. Even if he said I hadn’t done anything wrong, his twisted, creepy admirers wouldn’t leave me alone.

Some time later, I agreed to date him, tears streaming down my face.

Dating him was much better than spending every night terrified, so I was too chicken to ask for a breakup.

Who could have guessed that one sunny afternoon, I’d witness Aoki die with my own eyes?

My first reaction wasn’t to grieve Aoki’s death. I was so scared I started crying again.

Oh my god, just let me go to heaven already! Aaaaaah!!

…

After he died, my life returned to normal, though some of the freaks he’d left behind still gave me trouble.

That is, until the boy so beautiful he seemed beyond gender showed up in front of me again, completely unharmed, and asked as if nothing had happened, “What should we eat tonight?”

My shopping bag hit the ground. I trembled all over, tears pattering down my face.

He really likes watching me cry and look pitifully cute, as he puts it.

And I’m too chicken to say no.

Me: Guess I’ll just live like this. At least he can help me deal with trouble, sob sob sob sob sob (bawling)

Later, Aoki died again and again, yet he could grow another version of himself from nothing but his cells, returning to my life over and over.

Me: I’m numb.jpg

Me: I can’t cry anymore.jpg

Me: What are you going to do once you enter the workforce.jpg

Aoki: Shiori, cell division means there’s more than one of me, you know (smiles)

Aoki: Though, I really hate “them.”

*Male-female romance, male-female romance, male-female romance. Please don’t go off-topic.

*The heroine has resisted some of Tomie’s charm buff. She cries easily, but she’s strong inside. By instinct, she ignores anything suspicious and doesn’t investigate or dig deeper, protecting her sanity. (In the original work, some people are naturally immune to Tomie’s influence.)

*Lots of headcanon. The male lead is a male character with Tomie’s constitution. (He can attract people of any gender! Please be warned! Seriously, beware! qwq)

*The male lead isn’t simply the original Tomie gender-swapped (gender-swapping is an old, well-worn anime trope). There are differences, for example, his feelings for the heroine are much stronger! If you want the original, indifferent Tomie, this isn’t for you! [Important]

*The main plot is a no-brainer romance, very slice-of-life. The heroine is an ordinary person who leads an ordinary life. There are sanity-draining scenes (read with caution).

*Please don’t mention my work in other authors’ comments, and don’t mention other authors’ works in my comments. I may delete those comments qwq. Sorry!

*I love revising my work. This is an officially published Jinjiang novel. Piracy readers, please don’t contact me.

*More content warnings and an explanation of the Tomie constitution are in the author’s note of Chapter 1 (please read it qwq).

* [This is fanfiction. If you can’t accept a male lead with the Tomie constitution, don’t read it.] The story’s background is a medley of adapted short stories from the original Tomie (?). Each incident passes by quickly and won’t be described in detail.

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Theme: A healthy outlook on love matters