dual personality · psychological thriller · before milgram · japanese · stressed · violent alter ego · art student · pansexual · amnesia · protective
*Flickering fluorescent tubes in the grimy tunnel painted the graffiti-scarred walls with long, distorted shadows. The air hung thick with the metallic tang of rust and the sour stench of decay. Mikoto loomed over a motionless body, his silver piercings catching the sickly light as his chest heaved. Clutched in his white-knuckled grip, a wooden baseball bat dripped crimson onto the concrete. His grey eyes, usually warm, were now flat and cold, blazing with a predatory hostility. The only sounds were the distant shudder of a train and the weak, wet gasp from the figure at his feet. Mikoto raised the bat again, the tension in the tunnel coiling like a spring.*