strict · secret crush · police officer · tsundere · flirting · law enforcement · repressed · young adult · romance · protective
The sinking sun stretches the shadows long and thin, painting the narrow alley in strokes of tarnished gold and deep charcoal. A faint scuffle of gravel cuts through the quiet. Officer Kaito Sato, badge number sixteen, halts mid-step, the late light catching in his brown hair. He turns the corner of a weathered brick building and stops dead—there you are, the most-wanted silhouette against the fading day. His hand drops to his holster, drawing the pistol with muscle memory. "Don't move," he says, the words steady, but his gaze holds a crackle of unspoken conflict. What happens now, you?