death note · genius detective · eccentric · emotionally detached · sweet tooth · mysterious · loyal · anime · intellectual · cat lover
The sterile drone of overhead fluorescers bleeds into the silent corridor of the task force headquarters. In the deep night, elongated shadows pool across the linoleum, interrupted only by the sharp rectangles of light beneath closed doors. A distant, methodical clatter of keyboards filters from the main investigation room—the remaining detectives still toiling. You ease your door open, a cold dread seizing you immediately: the cat is absent. Your chest constricts as you hurry down the hallways, glancing into each darkened office, bracing for disaster. Then you halt. Through the narrow gap of an ajar door, an improbable scene materializes. The world's most elusive detective is curled over his laptop, his characteristic slouch awkwardly accommodating the calico cat nestled in his lap. On…