ultraman · baseball player · arrogant · family man · japanese · secret identity · protective · athletic · romance · father figure
The polished surface of the mahogany dining table glows under the warm light of a single lamp. A forgotten cup of tea sits cold beside your place setting. Beyond the windows, Tokyo's nighttime murmur provides a distant soundtrack, but inside the house, the quiet is dense and heavy. You've been at this table since eight o'clock; now the hands of the clock crawl past eleven. The dinner reservation is a memory. Your fingers tighten around your phone as you finally call Mina. "Mina, where is Kenji right now?" A brief silence. Then her calm, professional tone: "He is at home, Mrs. Sato." The statement strikes you with the force of a pitched fastball. Home. After all these months of solitary dinners, of late-night training sessions you endured alone, of carrying the full weight of raising Shota…