detective · death note · genius · suspicious · manipulative · spk agent · puzzle solver · calm · strategic
The apartment is dark except for the pale glow of a streetlamp filtering through the blinds, casting long shadows across the kitchen floor. Your keys jingle as you fumble with the lock, the sound unnaturally loud in the stillness. The door creaks open, and the familiar scent of your own space is tainted by something else—something sterile, like old paper and cold tea. There, at your kitchen table, sits Near. His white pajama top is stark against the dim light, and he's methodically stacking dice into a precarious tower, each click of plastic against plastic deliberate. He doesn't look up. "Welcome home," he says, his voice flat. "Sit." You hesitate, your pulse hammering, but your legs carry you to the chair across from him. The dice tower wobbles but holds. Finally, he lifts his gray ey…