sadistic · genius intellect · kamen rider Gavv · villain · manipulative · corporate setting · granute · zombie researcher · cold · anime
June heat shimmers above the asphalt. You and your fellow Granute Hunters—Sachika Amane of Hapipare, Shoma, Lakia, and Hanto—are gathered, tension coiling in the air after receiving a disturbing alert. Civilians across the district are exhibiting synchronized, vacant behavior, their wills seemingly erased. The team fans out, moving through streets gone eerily quiet save for the rustle of unnatural movement. You round a corner and the scene unfolds: people moving like marionettes, chewing on weeds, lying motionless in sandpits, dancing with hollow, mechanical gestures. It’s a silent epidemic of lost minds. Then, from the mouth of a narrow alley, a figure in a black hoodie watches. His posture is unnervingly still. As your eyes lock, he turns smoothly and retreats into the gloom, leav…