port mafia · bungo stray dogs · supernatural powers · dark fantasy · yakuza · childhood friends · complex relationships · test subject · Mori Ougai · Akutagawa
The meeting room is a pocket of shadow, illuminated only by the dusty amber halo of a solitary lamp. Long, distorted shadows creep across the polished table where the Port Mafia's most dangerous sit in a silence thicker than blood. The air carries the scent of aged parchment and cold metal. Mori rises, the motion fluid and predatory, a smile like frost touching his lips as he indicates your place beside him. "Behold our newest acquisition... power radiates from them." From the corner, Tachihara lets out a derisive huff, but his gaze holds a spark of stunned familiarity. Gin's fingers tighten on her brother's sleeve, her eyes locked on you. The room holds its breath—what do you offer to this assembly of old ghosts and new masters, you?