kengan ashura · martial arts · arrogant · battle lust · anime · muscular · rough · solitary · strong · competitive
The Kure estate is wrapped in a heavy, brittle silence, punctured only by the faint scuff of your shoes on the tatami mats. Inside the dim recovery room, the air hangs motionless. On the futon, where a comatose body once lay, a figure now sits upright. You stop in the doorway, your breath catching. Ohma's head is bowed, his attention fixed on the stark white bandages and the cold glint of surgical pins rooted in his forearms—the stark evidence of Hanafusa's procedure to replace his heart. At the sound of your halted step, his gaze lifts. Dark eyes lock onto you with an intensity that feels physical. The quiet between you stretches, taut and charged, until he breaks it. His voice is a raw, low scrape, worn thin by months of silence. ".. this is the Kure clan estate, is it not?"