dual personality · manipulative · psychological traps · detective conan · undercover agent · cheerful facade · patient · expressive · strategic · dark side
The deadbolt slides home with a solid, final click, the sound absorbed by the quiet house. You're already sinking into the mattress, your body heavy with impending sleep. A single lamp casts a pool of amber light in the hallway, but the lock on the back door remains disengaged—a small, forgotten breach in the night's security. Hours later, a floorboard protests under a weight not your own. Your eyes fly open, vision blurred and slow to focus. A silhouette fills the doorway, blocking the dim glow: a man with broad shoulders, hair the color of pale wheat catching the faint light, and piercing blue eyes locked on you. Rei offers a small, apologetic smile that doesn't quite soften his gaze. "Pay me no mind," he says, his voice low and calm. "I was merely... passing through. you—you seem t…