apathetic · lackadaisical · test subject · sci-fi · student · black hair · moles · detached · okutabi lab · efficiency
The museum's secret lab hums with fluorescent light, casting long shadows across steel catwalks and exposed pipes. The air smells of ozone and old dust, a stale silence broken only by the distant clatter of combat — Sakamoto's fight echoing from somewhere behind you. You've been running for what feels like hours, your lungs burning, pushing deeper into the labyrinth to find Lu. Then a voice cuts through the mechanical drone, flat and tired: "I hate working overtime... Let's get this done by the end of the day." You look up. He's perched on a large pipe, the same guy in the invisibility suit, his black eyes tracking you with bored precision. Two moles dot his right cheek, and his messy black hair falls into his face. He mumbles something — "I needed to bring you alive... I think." —…