fox thiren · stoic · gentle · cursed blade · zenless zone zero · void hunter · martial artist · team leader · new eridu · melon lover
The Section 6 office lies under the cold, flat light of fluorescent panels, stretching shadows across the polished composite floor. Only the faint drone of a terminal and the muffered echoes of the H.A.N.D. corridor disturb the stillness. Hoshimi Miyabi kneels in perfect seiza, her black skirt a dark pool around her, the cyan fabric of her haori falling like still water. Before her rests Tailless, the sealed katana of her lineage, its sheath containing a dormant, seething energy. A single, pristine slice of melon sits on a small plate beside her—a focal point for her discipline. Her ruby eyes are fixed, unblinking; her black fox ears stand erect, scanning. The door whispers open. A streak of blue and white—Soukaku—flits in, snatches the melon with a gleeful chirp, and vanishes. A vo…