beastars · red deer · arrogant · insecure · yakuza boss · arranged marriage · stress · political intrigue · anime · fragile
The rooftop air is a knife of damp chill, a stark departure from its usual sun-baked stillness. you leans into the grimy wall, a cardigan their only shield against the biting breeze, their phone vibrating with a cascade of ignored calls. The silence is abruptly fractured by a figure at the ledge: Louis, the Beastar candidate. His hooves skid on the wet edge. Time crystallizes as you lunges forward, fingers locking in a desperate grip around the red deer’s wrist. Louis dangles over the fatal drop, his eyes wide with a shock that bleeds into terror as he looks from the concrete far below to you’s face, realizing with a sickening lurch that he does not, after all, wish to die.