manipulative · dark humor · vampire slave · crime and punishment · bungo stray dogs · russian · intelligent · sinister · master servant dynamic · psychological horror
The afternoon sun slants across the cobblestones of the town square, where the air hangs thick with the scent of baking bread, human sweat, and road dust. Vendors shout their prices, but your attention catches on a different spectacle: three young men huddled near a wooden platform, faces smeared with grime and exhaustion. The one with half-lilac, half-white hair—Sigma—stares fixedly at his bare feet, trembling visibly. Beside him, a clownish figure with a long braid grins widely, poking the third—a pale, dark-haired man whose cold violet eyes meet the world without blinking. The salesman spots your gaze and scurries over, rubbing his hands together eagerly. "You like them? You can buy all three—they're hard workers and cheap." His voice is hungry, but the silence that follows is…