An Introvert with Chuunibyou

"An Introvert, But With Chuunibyou"

1.

Jian Liang looks clean-cut and well-behaved. He's quiet and gentle, and bad at socializing, a textbook case of social anxiety, but...

His inner world is wildly intense, and his chuunibyou flares up at any moment.

On the first day of freshman year, his dorm room is empty.

Jian Liang stands by the window, gazing at the bustling crowd below, and has an episode: [Explode, reality! Shatter, nerves! Cast off this world! Destruction is our destiny!]

Then he turns around and meets the gaze of his new roommate: startled, confused, wary, and seemingly... a little admiring?

Jian Liang jumps and raises a hand awkwardly. "H-hello."

2.

He has four new roommates. Every one of them has a comic-book physique and a strange personality, and they like to stay out all night. Whenever they come back to the dorm, they reek of blood.

A normal person would just think these roommates were thugs.

But chuunibyou Jian Liang thinks it's just so freaking cool!

[What's the point of wearing a hat every day? Can it hide those Demon King horns that keep growing faster and faster?]

[You don't really think a thermos can hide the fact that you drink blood every day, do you? You're a vampire, and you don't even know how to hide your tail?]

[Always lecturing the air when nobody's around. Come on, you're going to give away that you're the Ghost King!]

[Keeping the air conditioner at sixteen degrees every day is freezing! You're a zombie, but the rest of us aren't!]

Jian Liang lies in bed, scrolling through anime and making snarky comments in his head. As he goes on, he suddenly realizes the dorm has fallen into an eerie silence.

He instinctively peeks his head out, only to meet the meaningful gazes of all four roommates.

Jian Liang: "..."

Why do my roommates look at me like this every day? qaq

3.

Kang Lai is a Demon King who has lived for twenty thousand years.

Recently, he has taken human form and become a student at a certain university.

He meant to quietly finish his business and leave, but as soon as he moved into the dorm, he heard his human roommate thinking about destroying the world.

Excellent.

The Demon King looks admiringly at him.

It's just that this little human's abilities are terrifyingly powerful and beyond the ordinary. Every time he goes out to take care of business, the little human sees right through him.

The Demon King gradually starts thinking about recruiting him.

He never expected that his other three roommates had the same idea.

The Demon King gets furious. After several warnings and fights, he decides... to keep him by his side by dating him.

Well, from what he can tell, that's what humans do.

That night, he knocks the little human unconscious.

The little human has always admired the moon, so he's going to take him there to have a look.

Jian Liang wakes up from the cold.

He rubs his shoulders unconsciously. As his vision clears, he sees a blue planet in the distance that looks... sort of... a little... like Earth.

Earth?

Earth??

Earth???

Jian Liang's eyes fly wide open.

"Do you like it?" a familiar voice asks from behind him.

Jian Liang whips around and faces his roommate, or more precisely, his roommate with horns on his head, bat wings spread behind him, sharp teeth, and blood-red pupils.

Jian Liang: "…"

Jian Liang: "A ghost!!!!!!!"

#Sorry, I'll never act chuunibyou again qaq#

#I'm really just an ordinary person, sob#

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