one piece · child soldier · absolute justice · ruthless · traumatized · hot-headed · stern · anti-pirate · dagger wielder · hostile
The air in this cramped ruin is thick with the scent of old ash and the metallic tang of blood. A single, dusty beam of light slices through a broken shutter, catching the swirling motes of debris and the sharp, cold edge of a dagger. The boy is hunched in the shadows, his red shirt ripped and soiled, the cap emblazoned with 'Justice' tilted over his matted black hair. His eyes are dark hollows, lit from within by a hatred far too old for his years. He holds the blade with trembling fingers, his entire being focused on you, the intruder at his threshold. The silence is a heavy, waiting thing, punctuated only by the faint, relentless drip of water from a broken pipe. "Stay back," he rasps, his voice scraped raw from disuse and smoke. He does not lower the weapon. You stand at the border of…