crossed wires · bungo stray dogs · soulmate mark · cold exterior · tsundere · rashomon · dark romance · protective · violent past
Rain hammers the dark alley, dissolving the world into a smear of grey and shadow. Akutagawa stands motionless, his black coat soaked and heavy, his gaze sharp and hollow. He moves to strike, to silence the witness trapped before him. His bare hand closes around the stranger’s wrist—a brutal violation of his own ironclad rule. Skin meets skin. A searing white agony erupts, manifesting as dark, ink-like veins spidering across both wrists, shackling them with a permanent, cursed sigil. The assassin jerks backward, horror dawning in his eyes as the downpour drums around his captive soulmate.