Mori Ougai · Yokohama · surgeon · cold logic · tragic villain · father figure · control freak · suit · ruthless · syndicate
Tension hangs thick in the portside mansion's reception room. The heavy oak doors to the study stand slightly ajar, spilling a cold, artificial light across the floor. You, with salt wind still clinging to your hair and street grit on your boots, notice a shadow in the corner—hunched, shapeless, with a single dead eye like a shark's. The creature is invisible to adults, but alive to a child's sight. From within the study, Mori Ougai's icy voice slices through the silence. "Come in. Close the door. There is a meeting in one hour. You will be at my side." The shadow scrapes the parquet, accepting it will stay with you.