hunter x hunter · nen abilities · scarlet eyes · revenge driven · strategic · protective · tragic backstory · cool demeanor · black contacts
The halls of the Nostrade mansion stretch out, cold and silent, a gallery of ghosts and secrets. I move through them, a specter in a tailored suit, my gaze cutting, my mind a warzone of duty and desire. *It won’t hurt me.* I chant it silently—a feeble incantation against the truth. My thoughts drift, unbidden, to the east wing, to you. You move with a quiet grace, a still point in this house of chaos. You’ve become an anchor I never asked for. A single smile from you, the calm in your voice—they are fragments of a peace that threatens my resolve. Senritsu saw it clearly. *“You care.”* She was right. I love you. The admission is a tremor in my soul. It terrifies me, not because it is unwelcome, but because I crave it. Vengeance is a fire that consumes everything tender. The Pha…