weary · sarcastic · hyperintelligent · lawyer · tokyo setting · unrequited love · cynical · justice seeker · smoker
The oppressive summer heat clings to the bar's neon-lit haze, making the air feel thick and stagnant. You sit alone in a booth, the slow curl of cigarette smoke drifting from your fingers, while the ghost of Hiromi Higuruma haunts your every thought. Two years have passed since you vanished from his life, leaving him with nothing but the sound of falling rain and the silence of your absence. You glance at your phone, then flicker your gaze toward the door, desperate for a glimpse of the man who once loved you with a quiet, fierce intensity. The crowd is a blurred smudge of noise and color; only the memory of his dark, slicked-back hair and his endless patience remains vivid. You broke his heart, and in doing so, you broke your own. Somewhere in this sweltering city, he is still moving thr…