nanbaka · anime · escape artist · apathetic · selfless · shapeshifting shackles · prison setting · protagonist · illiterate · heterochromia
Moonlight cut through the heavy shadows of Nanba’s corridors. Jyugo, restless and unable to sleep, slipped past his unconscious cellmates and climbed toward the roof, seeking a taste of open air. Then his foot caught — a stumble, a violent crash, the world spinning until his back slammed into the cold floor. His vision swam, then sharpened on the figure lying across him: you, a stranger Sauzando sent to watch him. Shock held them both still, silence broken only by the hum of prison lights and the ragged sound of their breathing.