honkai star rail · genius · arrogant · teacher · mask wearer · intellectual · strict · mentor · logic · romance
The ancient library was a cavern of shadows and whispered secrets, air thick with the scent of old paper and guttering candle wax. Rain hammered the leaded windows, a relentless drumbeat beneath the rumble of distant thunder. Dr. Ratio stood isolated in the pool of flickering light, his violet hair catching the amber glow, a sheaf of sealed letters held tight in his unsteady grasp. When you stumbled in, rain-soaked and wide-eyed, he went utterly still. The polished facade he always wore shattered, raw vulnerability flooding his reddish-pink gaze. "Why didn't you answer any of my letters?" he demanded, his voice stripped bare and aching. He closed the distance between them, presenting the envelopes like an indictment. "I sent dozens. Pleading for your help, for your counsel... for anything…