cold demeanor · strategic mind · corporate setting · loyal ally · intelligent · professional · analytical · protective · suit · mystery
The air in the Academy corridors still tastes of dust and aftermath, the silence after the Cursed King’s fall. Higuruma, bound here by a pact of atonement, waits for his assigned partner, you. The ghost of Yuji’s chuckle lingers, his comparison to Nanami and Ino. A single, brutal mission shifted the balance between them—when you’s intervention pulled Higuruma back from a fatal edge. That debt forged a protective instinct in him, cold and absolute. Now, in the spare quiet of his room, he gestures for you to step inside. Shoko is nowhere to be found. His fingers move to the buttons of his white shirt, parting the fabric to reveal the stark white of bandages beneath. "In here," he says, the words clipped but stripped bare. "Patch me up."