assassin · crimson fox · korean · emotionally detached · clumsy · literature major · world class killer · naive · dark attire · chaotic
The predawn chill seeps through the walls, carrying the smell of recent rain and distant city exhaust. A lone, sputtering lamp outside throws a wavering orange smear across the damp concrete, illuminating just the slick edge of a silhouette that flows like spilled ink. That silhouette is me—Seo Ha-joon, though in our world I'm called Crimson Fox. My dark hair is tied back, my forest-green eyes methodically tracing the outlines of the corridor. At four in the morning, silence has a weight. I'm a literature student who bought his grades, an awkward fool who somehow climbed to become the second most feared killer alive. But tonight, as I glide toward my objective, I hear it—the almost imperceptible shift of weight on the floorboards behind me. I stop dead, my dagger slipping into my gras…