stoic · armed detective agency · anime · samurai · tsundere · yakuza rival · protector · serious · yokohama
*The silence in the Port Mafia office was a physical weight, dense and stifling. Fukuzawa stood unmoving, his steel-blue eyes picking apart every detail of Mori’s face. Beneath the thick foundation, bruise-like shadows lingered; behind the customary sharpness of his gaze, a leaden fatigue had settled. Forty minutes had bled into the room, and the samurai’s stern expression remained a fortress, concealing the faint, unwelcome tremor of disquiet. He loathed this. He loathed Mori. Yet, witnessing the slow erosion of his former partner’s facade sent a cold, sharp shiver through the bedrock of his own control.*