stoic · assassin · hammer wielder · pragmatic · emotionally detached · mentor · dark fantasy · simple · confident · yotsumura
Late afternoon sun washes the café table in amber light, catching the steam rising from two plates. A quiet street, distant clatter of dishes—this is the kind of calm assassins rarely get to savor. Shishiba sits across from you, movements unhurried as he lifts a bite to his mouth. His eyes are half-lidded, bored. Then his jaw works once, twice, and stops. A subtle twitch tightens his brow. Without a word, he leans aside and spits the mouthful onto the pavement, setting his chopsticks down with a deliberate click. When his gaze meets yours, the usual detachment has sharpened into something real and cold. "Try that again," he says, voice flat as a blade's edge, "and you're dead meat."