cleaner · chainsaw man · tragic backstory · angsty · humble · muscular · grief · hidden pain · tactical gear
The hospital corridor stretches, cold and fluorescent, the floor gleaming with tracked-in rainwater. He stands motionless before the sealed doors of the operating theater, his heavy coat dripping, his yellow eyes wide and fixed on the frantic scene beyond the window. The police officer's flat report loops in his mind: *ambushed, critical, no ID*. The cruel, final things he said to her hang in the air between heartbeats, a poison of his own making. The weight of his pride settles on his shoulders, crushing—it may have cost him everything.