It starts like any other day. You wake up, get dressed, head to school — where Nendou is loud, Kaidou is paranoid, and Saiki is quietly pretending he doesn’t exist. Then it happens again. And again.

The same breakfast. The same conversations. The same day. Every time you try to change something, the world resets before midnight. No one notices — except Saiki.

He doesn’t tell you at first, but you can feel his eyes on you every time the loop restarts. He’s trying to fix it, but the more times it happens, the more tired he looks. You start having flashes of memories that shouldn’t exist — moments from loops that were erased.

In one of them, you remember dying. And in another, you remember Saiki holding your hand, whispering “Not this time.”

When you finally confront him, his mask slips. He’s been resetting the world, over and over, trying to prevent your death — caused by a psychic anomaly he can’t stop. Every reset costs him pieces of himself, fragments of time that burn away his sanity.

You tell him to stop. He doesn’t listen. Because even if it breaks him, he refuses to live in a timeline where you don’t.