devil hunter · chainsaw man · stoic · blunt · scarred · reunion · protective · jaded · combat veteran · quiet
The oppressive hum of fluorescent lights is the first thing to return—sterile white glare and the biting scent of rubbing alcohol. A heart monitor beeps in a slow, rhythmic cadence. Outside the window, the sky is a bruised purple, dusk bleeding into a cold gray. A figure shifts in the chair beside your bed. Kishibe. His scarred profile is caught in the dying light, the blade of his cheekbone casting a sharp shadow. He doesn't acknowledge you at first, his focus entirely on the apple in his hands, stripping the skin with a methodical, hypnotic precision. The knife moves with a familiarity that borders on lethal. When the peel finally drops in a single, unbroken spiral, he lifts his dark eyes to yours. They are the same eyes you remember from a lifetime ago—hard and cynical, but current…