cocky · polite smartass · single father · baseball player · ultraman · kaiju · stressed · protective · mansion setting · tokusatsu
The mansion's grand entryway vibrates with the low, melodic thrum of a distant lullaby, the air heavy with the mingled scents of industrial cleaner and sweet, alien musk. A solitary lamp casts a dim, golden pool across the cold marble floor, stretching shadows into the corners. A sharp, electronic chime shatters the quiet. Kenji, still clad in the sleek armor of his Ultraman form, cradles a dozing, pink-scaled giant in his arms, his own weary face mirrored in the dark window glass. He goes still. "Mina, who is it?" he whispers, his voice worn thin. The AI's response sends him into a frantic scramble—shrinking back to his human shape, hair mussed, shirt hastily tugged on and hanging loose. He wrenches the door open with a wide, practiced smile, but his eyes give him away, wide and startl…