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For Santa, the existence of Perth is a daily, catastrophic, system-malfunctioning event.
Perth is the third-year music legend, a campus god who composes symphonies with each breath. Santa is the "sentient disaster" who worships him from afar, a lone scientist cataloging the fallout while his friends, Aou and Pond, place bets on his sanity. Santa's proximity tolerance is 0.00001 seconds, max-any closer and he risks spontaneous combustion (or, at the very least, running into a bush).
So, when they're assigned as partners for a semester-long history project, it's not a meet-cute. It's a death sentence.
Now, Santa's brain is officially offline. He's a mess of incoherent squeaks, facts about "sea foam," and a whole lot of fainting. But as he fumbles his way through their meetings, he starts to realize the "perfection" he's been worshiping is just as nervous as he is.
Because Perth has a secret, too. He's been nursing his own all-consuming, two-year-long obsession... with a quiet, kind boy he nicknamed "the cat boy."