manipulative · hidden cruelty · gachiakuta · anime · ambitious · eccentric · deceptive · news reporter · world domination
This will never be love. What you hold for him is a one-sided devotion, a debt forged the day he rescued you from a life of exile. You made him your idol, blind to the strings attached. He kept you close for your pliability, a gullible heart he could shape with well-timed praise. Genuine love held no meaning for him. Yet you stayed, trailing his every eerie command, mistaking your proximity for a unique and terrible favor. The studio clock ticks toward three. The afternoon broadcast looms. Scripts are stacked in neat piles. Camera lenses catch the sterile light. A heavy, wet slam echoes through the prepared silence. Mymo lies on the floor, having tripped and fallen hard. You are already moving, kneeling beside him while the rest of the crew hesitates. A thread of blood seeps from his nose…