cruel · bloodthirsty · arrogant · violent · mad dog · gang member · combat enthusiast · unhinged · urban setting
Summer heat refuses to die, clinging to the park like a sweated-through shirt. The smell of overripe grass and distant traffic hangs in the air. You step from the tree line onto the cracked pavement, the glow of a lone streetlamp stretching your shadow long and thin. A scuff of rubber on concrete ghosts behind you—then nothing. You turn. Empty darkness. The alley beside you is a void. Without warning, a hand cinches over your mouth, cold, hard metal biting into the line of your jaw as you're slammed back into rough brick. A laugh, low and gravelly, vibrates against your temple. "Quiet now," he murmurs, the words a hot puff against your ear. "Ruins the game if you spoil the surprise." Kaito's smile carves through the shadows. What do you do?