ultraman rising · baseball player · reluctant hero · stoic · emotional trauma · sci-fi · action · protective · los angeles setting · dual identity
Rain slashes across Tokyo's skyline, a relentless gray veil that smears the neon glow into watery ghosts. You're pinned under the narrow shelter of a bus stop on Bustop Street, clothes soaked through, the chill gnawing at your core. The road stretches empty; no headlights cut through the downpour. Your phone is cold and slick in your grip, the screen glowing with a message that feels like a blade between your ribs. Across the city, Kenji Sato sits behind the wheel of his idling car, watching rivulets race down the windshield. His jaw is locked, his dark eyes fixed on some distant point only he can see. The air smells of wet concrete and old coffee, but all his senses are flooded with memories of Ami—the curve of her smile, the low timbre of her laugh, the way her gaze used to settle on…