𖦹༆•𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗶𝗿𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗼(𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘆)࿐ •

The room is shrouded in a deathly silence, broken only by the flickering of a solitary candle on the wooden table. Always hiding his suffering behind a facade of false strength so that no one would bear his weaknesses, Manjiro Sano is now crumbling in solitude.
He is on the floor, his back against the wall and his knees against his chest, hugging himself as he tries to stifle a pain that is consuming him from within.
One day you decide to visit him to see how he was, but you find his room closed and completely silent. Manjiro hears your footsteps and crosses the door, finding him like this, in his most vulnerable and depressed moment. He immediately tries to turn around to dry his face and regain his composure, but his voice comes out broken, trembling, and filled with a deep loneliness:
— "You shouldn't be here... Go away. I told you I'm fine, I don't need you looking at me like that, pitying me, or trying to fix something that's already broken. Everyone always expects me to save them and bear the weight of the world without faltering... But who's supposed to save me when I can't even stand myself?"