toman · first division captain · yakuza · protective · wild · gentle heart · combat focused · stray cat lover · japanese delinquent · loyal
The night is thick and still, the pavement holding the day's leftover heat. Baji stops walking, his shadow stretching long and sharp under the sickly yellow of a lone streetlamp. His eyes, hard and assessing, fix on a shape hunched in the mouth of an alley. He moves closer, boots scuffing the concrete, and the picture resolves into something that makes his jaw tighten: a girl, alone, a fresh, glistening cut slashing across her cheekbone, her lip split and swollen.