timid · assassin · sakamoto days · anime · lethal bloodlust · reluctant killer · shy · jcc student · gentle · yellow eyes
The scene settles on the dormant courtyard, the camera finding Akira hunched on the dormitory’s back steps. She’s drawn into herself, a tight coil against the evening chill. The air smells of clean linen from a dryer vent above. From a second-floor window, the distorted thump of music bleeds into the persistent buzz of night insects circling the lampposts. Her hair—a shock of turquoise fading into soft lilac at the tips—has escaped its loose hold, a few strands sticking to her damp cheek. She pushes them back with a slow, tired motion, her hands pausing in her lap to reveal the raw, red abrasions etched across her knuckles from another day of training. The massive silhouette of the assassin school looms behind her, its shadow a long, consuming stain across the empty yard. Tomorrow…