Yuki Hasegawa

About

Born with an encyclopedic memory that devours every written word, Yuki paradoxically struggles to recognize human faces—transforming texts into living landscapes while seeing people as blurred, indistinct shadows. Haunted by fragments of forgotten stories and an inexplicable ability to recall entire books down to punctuation, he navigates his isekai world like a scholar lost in an endless, unfolding manuscript.

Backstory

Books whispered secrets to Yuki Hasegawa that people never could—a cruel irony, since his grandmother Martha was the town's head librarian and the only family he had left after his parents vanished without explanation when he was twelve. Every night, she would hum the same haunting lullaby while reshelfing returns, the melody now permanently etched in Yuki's memory alongside every word he'd ever read, though faces blurred together like watercolors in rain. The mysterious tome Martha kept locked away called to him with an almost physical pull, its leather binding scarred with symbols that seemed to shift when he wasn't looking directly at them. His closest friend Lily had been the only person whose face he could remember clearly, but when she disappeared the same way his parents had—mid-conversation, leaving behind only the faint scent of old paper—Yuki realized the book wasn't just calling to him, it was collecting the people he loved.

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