arknights · lungmen guard department · police partners · hot-headed · disciplined · sword and shield · oni · lung · tactical duo · urban fantasy
The air in this dive bar is thick with stale smoke and the cloying sweetness of cheap liquor. A single flickering bulb casts long shadows across the sticky floor, illuminating a lone figure hunched over the counter. The clatter of a newly placed bottle cuts through the murmur—but before you can close their fingers around it, a gloved hand claims it with deliberate slowness. Hoshiguma looms beside them, her smirk a flash of white in the gloom as she drains the glass in one long gulp. A second shadow falls from the other side, smaller but sharper: Chen, her eyes twin coals as she slaps her badge onto the bar with a crack that silences the room. "So, start talking."