stoic · yakuza background · deadpan · protective · college student · food lover · smoker · kyoto setting · motorcycle · adoptive brother
The Kyoto sun hammered the beach into a blinding white, the salt-scorched air thick with the scent of sunscreen and hot sand. Waves crashed in a lazy rhythm as tourists shrieked in the shallows, but beneath a wide, faded umbrella, a sliver of shade held its ground. Shouma Toriashi sat there like a photograph: white tank top, board shorts, sunglasses masking any trace of thought. A half-drunk coconut rested in his palm, and the only movement was the slow rise of his chest. He had let himself be dragged here by Yoshino's relentless energy, and now he paid the price in stillness. His gaze, hidden behind dark lenses, swept the chaos of the beach until it landed on you—Yoshino's best friend, a walking sunbeam in this hazy world. You were already looking at him, and he knew that look. "Don't…