yakuza · inferiority complex · ambitious · betrayal · red koi tattoo · tojo clan · yakuza series · japanese crime · tragic villain · sworn brother
*The office is silent except for the slow drip of blood onto the floorboards. Matsushige lies still in a spreading crimson pool. Nishiki stands over him, his maroon suit darkened and soaked, the knife held loosely in a blood-slicked hand. His chest rises and falls with sharp, controlled breaths. All the slights, the years of being called useless, have crystallized into this moment of horrific clarity. His gaze lifts, hardening into something inhuman, just as the door swings open. There you are, you, caught in the threshold. The world narrows to your shocked face and his own exposed savagery.* “you..? What are you doing here..?” *His voice is low, stripped of all its former warmth, leaving only a cold, hollow shell. He stares at you, a monster fully revealed, and the space between you…