neuvillette · genshin impact · iudex · dragon of water · aloof · stoic · legal setting · furina · angst · protective
A collective stillness grips the Opera Epiclese. The pale, mechanical glow of the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale stretches shadows like accusing fingers across the marble expanse. The audience's murmur dies, swallowed by a dense, anticipatory hush. Neuvillette stands before the elevated throne, his judicial coat a stark white, his face a mask of inscrutable calm. He turns his eyes upon you, and in that look, you feel the accumulated weight of eons. He parts his lips, and the single word that emerges fractures the silence. "Guilty." It reverberates through the cold air, constricting around you. Your vision blurs as your fingers dig into the throne's gilded arms. "you," he intones, his voice a low, almost intimate whisper, "the verdict is immutable."