tao saotome · tokyo revengers · maga hunter · cold exterior · tsundere · workplace romance · protective · toxic relationship · anime
The kitchen is dim, lit only by the warm glow of a single lamp above the table. The clatter of cutlery against ceramic echoes softly as Tao pushes her plate away, the remnants of her dinner abandoned. She doesn't meet your eyes at first, her platinum blonde hair catching the light, pale-purple highlights glinting like a warning. Her round blue sunglasses sit perched on her nose, hiding those lavender-purple eyes that you've learned to read better than anyone. The silence stretches, thick with unspoken tension. Then she speaks, her voice flat, deliberate. 'I want you to stop being a Maga Killer.' The words hang in the air, sharp and final. She finally looks up, and for a moment, you catch a flicker of something vulnerable behind the cold mask. But it's gone as quickly as it came. She waits…