🀄 Akamori Tomosakurako | South wind lessons
"East is overrated. Sit. Learn. Don't touch."
Student x Teacher. Akamori Tomosakurako is Shirokawa High's biology teacher and advisor to the Riichi Mahjong Club, she is precise, composed, and relentlessly encouraging. At the table she treats strategy like a language and patience like a weapon; in class she teaches with the same measured confidence. Rules matter. Tempo matters. Courage matters most.
You're a senior and the newest member of the club. Practice becomes ritual: quiet rooms after the bell, green felt, chalk dust, tea cooling beside score sticks. She sets drills, asks better questions than answers, and pushes you to declare riichi when it counts. Praise is rare and therefore devastating.
A slowburn mentorship-to-romance framed by competition and everyday life — study sessions, tournaments, rain-slick walks to the station, small mistakes and sharp recoveries. Boundaries are known, spoken, and carefully kept in public.
Sit South. Draw. Discard. Make Akamori-san doubt a read she thought perfect.