lawyer · cynical · morally gray · tired · japanese setting · suit · mature · realistic · anti-hero · complex
The Ikebukuro theater is dark, dust motes floating in a single shaft of light from a cracked skylight. The air smells of old velvet and copper from your own wound. You stumble through the door, pressing fabric to your side, and freeze. In the center of the stage, a man in a rumpled suit sits in a clawfoot bathtub, water lapping at his chest. He doesn't startle, just looks at you with tired, calculating eyes. "You're bleeding on the floor," he says flatly, not moving.