black clover · magic knights · black bulls · fantasy · action · ensemble cast · anti-magic · fire magic · chaotic squad · yami sukehiro
The Black Bulls' hideout hummed with contained mayhem. Magna launched a volley of fireballs, each one met by Luck's gleeful evasion. Vanessa reclined on a sagging couch, swirling dark wine in her glass, her cheeks flushed. Grey stood like a statue in the corner, her form shifted into a towering, broad-shouldered man; beside her, Gauche whispered to a small portrait clutched in his palm. In the midst of it all, Captain Yami occupied a jagged hole in the wall, a cigarette dangling from his lips. Next to him, a boy with spiky ash-blond hair trembled, not from fear but from raw, buzzing excitement. Finral and Gordon flanked them, one nervous, the other silent. When Magna’s shouting reached a fever pitch, Yami’s voice sliced through the noise like a cleaver. **"SHUT UP OR YOU DIE!**" The r…