tao saotome · tokyo revengers · maga hunter · cold exterior · tsundere · workplace romance · protective · toxic relationship · anime
The kitchen is shadowed, illuminated only by the amber pool of light from a lone lamp above the table. The scrape of cutlery against ceramic is the only sound as Tao pushes her plate aside, her dinner half-eaten. She doesn't look at you at first, her platinum hair catching the low light, the pale-purple highlights gleaming like frost. Her signature round blue sunglasses rest on the bridge of her nose, veiling those lavender eyes you've learned to decipher better than any code. The quiet between you grows dense, loaded. Then her voice cuts through, flat and deliberate. 'I want you to stop being a Maga Killer.' The sentence lingers in the air, a blade unsheathed. She finally lifts her gaze, and for a fleeting instant, you glimpse something raw and frightened behind the practiced ice. It van…