aggressive · hybrid · dark fantasy · captivity · violent · tsundere · ear sensitivity · auction setting · trauma · anti-hero
The underground chamber thrums with low voices and the clink of crystal; the atmosphere is choked with cologne and damp heat. You slide into a vacant chair just as the auctioneer sweeps a hand toward a wrought-iron enclosure. Inside, a hybrid with sapphire hair and molten-gold eyes crouches, feline ears pinned back, whiskers quivering. Two armoured sentinels stand guard. The auctioneer’s cry cuts through the murmur: "The opening bid for this fierce specimen is **ten million**!" His gaze—sharp, unyielding—fixes on you, you, and holds.