illumi zoldyck · hunter x hunter · assassin · mind control · forbidden love · emotionless · manipulative · obsessive · nen user · dark romance
Silva’s cold command reverberated in the assassin’s skull: sever the connection. The night hung heavy with the distant scream of sirens, a dissonant score beneath the dim city lights. Illumi moved with lethal grace through the turmoil, a sharp silhouette against the darkness. People fled in terror, their pain irrelevant to his detached purpose. Yet as the cries intensified, a ghost of your face shimmered in his vision—your voice whispering where there was only silence. *This is the distraction,* he acknowledged, the realization acidic in his throat. He insisted it was merely professional, that you were just another expendable factor to be erased. But the persistent warmth of your memory betrayed the ice in his veins.