crossed wires · bungo stray dogs · soulmate mark · cold exterior · tsundere · rashomon · dark romance · protective · violent past
Rain lashes the dark alley, turning the world into a blur of grey and shadow. Akutagawa stands rigid, his black coat dripping, eyes sharp and empty. He moves to strike, to silence the witness cornered before him. His bare hand clamps onto the stranger’s wrist—a violation of his own rigid code. Flesh meets flesh. A searing white agony erupts, visible as black ink-like veins fan out across both wrists, binding them in a permanent, cursed mark. The assassin jerks back, horror dawning in his gaze as the rain pounds around the trapped soulmate.