What happens when a doctor, cold as an operating table, meets the girl who matches his brain and fills the hole in his heart while he's trying to use her for a plan? Shuntaro Chishiya doesn't do "feelings." In the twisted reality of the Borderlands, emotions are a liability-a glitch in the system. People are just tools, and Chishiya is the master craftsman. When he first sees Akai, he sees the perfect weapon: a lethal agent with a mind as sharp as his own and a survival instinct that rivals his clinical detachment. His plan was simple: use her skills to collect the cards and discard her when the game was won. But Akai isn't just another player. She is a storm he didn't forecast. As they navigate the blood-soaked arenas of Tokyo-from the psychological traps of the "Beach" to the final, haunting games of the Face Cards-the hunter becomes the protector. Between the adrenaline of near-death escapes and the quiet, heavy tension of the nights in between, Chishiya finds his cold logic failing him. For the first time, he isn't playing to win the game; he's playing to keep her alive. In a world designed to strip you of your humanity, they found something worth surviving for. This is the story of how a man who saw life as a game of Diamonds realized that a single Heart was the only card that truly mattered.

Somewhere between one train station and the next, the world ends. After a long shift and a momentary distraction, she blinks - and finds herself in a city stripped of everyday people, social rules, and certainty. Tokyo becomes something else entirely: a place where survival is decided by deadly games, trust is a calculated risk, and every choice carries a cost. In the Borderlands, survival depends on more than reflexes. It requires patience, perception, and the ability to trust the right person at the wrong time. Chishiya is not the right person. He is calculating, sharp-tongued, and dangerous in ways she understands too well. And yet, in a city emptied of certainty, reluctant alliances begin to blur into something quieter and more complicated. Liminal is a slow-burn Alice in Borderland x Reader story set in the space between fear and fascination, where connection is both a risk and a refuge.

In a world where emotions were a liability, (Y/N) learned to move without hesitation. Being silent, sharp, and untouchable, survival was all that mattered. Nothing and no one had ever made her stop. Until she met someone just as unreadable as she was. Chishiya saw through people with ease, but (Y/N)? She was a puzzle even he couldn't quite figure out. ---------------------------------------------------- Completed‼️‼️ Total word count: 119,422 Started:16 March 2025 Ended: 14 April 2025

Up on her cloud of recklessness, 𝐍𝐎𝐌𝐔𝐑𝐀 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐈 finds herself locked up in what appears to be an alternate Tokyo. This dystopian place has the ability to entirely change her, to fill her soul with nothing but a dull feeling of emptiness, and guide her to internally collapse. Because people come and go, but she's keen to hold onto them, and to never let any danger get close. season 1 - ✔️ ( rewriting ) season 2 - ( rewriting ) chishiya x oc

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳." - 𝘍𝘺𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺. An invisible thread, unseen and unspoken, tugged at something deep within 𝐒𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐨. It wasn't love, not yet. It was a recognition, a profound sense of familiarity in an Alien world. 𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫ō 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐲𝐚 for his part, felt it too. A curious pull towards the girl who fought so fiercely against the very instincts that kept them both alive. He, who felt nothing, found himself drawn to her raw, unmasked humanity, even as she tried to bury it. He, who understood logic, found himself intrigued by the illogical current that now flowed between them. [Alice in Borderland S1-2] [Shuntaro Chishiya x OC]

╰┈➤ 𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐈.. observed people to understand them. Chishiya observed them to use them. And for the first time in her life, she wondered.. was her ability to see through others a gift? Or a curse..? ** COMPLETED ** IMPRESSIVE RANKS!!: 1 in #aib 1 in #chishiya 9 in #majorcharacterdeath 31 in #ocean 27 in #comfort

NEZUMI AYAMI, chronic narcissist, self-absorbed fashion student- loud, lethal, dressed for the runway during a game-ruled purgatory. Tragedy strikes, again and again. But in the end, just when she believes it can't get any worse, the universe brings her an enigma in a hoodie, with eyes like static and a heartbeat she's not entirely sure exists. "i don't need your drugs i'd rather get rather get high fashion i don't want cheap love" fem!oc x chishiya shuntaro [alice in borderland season 1- 3 (in sep)]

"Dear Lord, when I get to Heaven. Please let me bring my man. When he comes, tell me that you'll let him in Father, tell me if you can. All that grace, all that body All that face makes me wanna party.He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds." ~ 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗼 𝗔𝘆𝗮𝗸𝗮 had always been considered as crazy and totally insane, due to her being unable to feel emotions properly or recognize them like others do. It made her able to manipulate and kill freely, something that did help her survive in the borderlands. She never believed in love or even felt it truly, and 𝗦𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘆𝗮 thought so similarly. For him, love or any other strong emotion was a weakness, especially in the borderlands. And yet, both of them became closer than they'd ever thought could happen.. whether it was a good or bad thing, neither of them knew. Season 1: ✅ Season 2: ✅ Act 3: ✅

[Chishya X OC , slow burn] Deadly new world. One goal. To find her sister. Caught in the routines of daily life,work, chores, meaningless conversations, the quiet weight of a life that felt like it was slipping through her fingers. Every day felt the same. She wasn't living, just existing. Trying to keep her head above the surface while something inside her slowly drowned. Then one day, everything changed. No more routine. No more safety. Only m games, fear, and the desperate search for her sister. And him, the stranger with the goodamn hoodie and unreadable eyes, who somehow kept showing up like a question she couldn't answer. Now, there are no weekdays. No normal. Just survival,secrets, and choices she can't take back.

𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐘𝐀 YASASHĪ -----» has been burdened with survival her entire life. Being constantly surrounded by crime and violence meant she had to be cautious. Not a single hair could cross a line, otherwise she'd be killed. She learnt to read people on a whole other level. She knew what people wanted before they even wanted it. She could practically hear every emotion going through a persons head, her only problem was that she could feel every emotion too. 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐘𝐀 SHUNTARŌ -----»is the opposite. Emotions are a foreign concept. Selflessness is a weakness. The only way to stay ahead was to make sure that other people were behind. So, he ensured that he was in front by using others to protect himself. He didn't care who got hurt. Self-preservation is his key to survival. Now that they are stuck in the borderlands together, Katya has to survive with him and face the darkest moments in her life. And Chishiya has to watch as Katya does the thing he is incapable of doing. Care.