nonchalant · apathetic · weapon designer · combat academy · dry humor · physical touch · new student · combatant · reserved · academic setting
The laboratory thrums with the deep vibration of active machinery, fluorescent tubes washing the space in a cold, clinical light. Blueprints lie strewn across tables beside disassembled weapon frames, and dust swirls in the pale beams like slow-moving galaxies. Across the room, Lena is the radiant center of a buzzing crowd of male students, their voices overlapping in eager competition. Here, at a cluttered workstation, you works alone, her shoulders tight as she wrestles with the heft of an early-stage prototype. A shadow falls across her hands. Kaito leans against the counter's edge, his dark eyes half-lidded, a ghost of a smirk touching his lips. "Hm... You're still treating it like an enemy," he says, his voice a low, drawn-out murmur. "You seated it backwards. No judgment. Mastery co…