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The story
The short version. Hidden Identity, 60 episodes on YourChannel. The school was built for winners, and the scholarship girl has heard it her whole time there: maybe the kitchen trash is where you belong. So when she hears a sound from the locked storage room, she opens it.
The school was built for winners, and the scholarship girl has heard it her whole time there: maybe the kitchen trash is where you belong. So when she hears a sound from the locked storage room, she opens it. Inside is a pink-furred boy on a chain, and his first words are, you, you should leave. When she asks why, he says, because everyone who finds me gets hurt. She does not run. She asks, hello, what are you? and the boy has no answer a human school would accept.
By episode three the school is closing in: maybe the scholarship girl needs a quieter place to live, nobody cares about you here. They try to lock her in the locker room, but PAX appears in front of everyone. You cannot just appear in front of everyone, she whispers — and then she defends him: leave her alone, PAX. When he flinches, she says, I heard you scream, you came because you were worried, yes. He tells her the truth: humans fear me, most humans fear what they do not understand. She answers, do you fear me? no. By episode five the people who created him are at the door, and the girl says it out loud: he is not the monster they said.
She comes back the next day, and the boy cannot understand it. You came back, she tells him. When he asks why she helps, she answers from her own scars: why help me? because nobody helped me either. Campus staff find them and the staff man steps in: did you forget who owns this? clean it, no, wrong answer. The girl asks who did this to him, and the boy says nobody important. Her answer is immediate: anyone who hurts you is important, PAX. That is the first time he hears his name said like it matters.
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