The boiler room buzzed softly with the aftermath of tragedy. Steam curled lazily around the exposed pipes, casting ghostly shadows across the damp floor. Near the large valve-lined wall, the lifeless body of Wolfgang, the Ultimate Lawyer, lay facedown in a shallow pool of now-stilled, once-electrified water—his once-pristine suit scorched and clinging to his frame.
Tozu stood just beyond the flickering light, mask tilted as if in mock mourning. The single broken horn cast a jagged silhouette along the rusted walls, his crimson eyes glowing like cinders beneath the goat skull.
"Oh Wolfgang…" he began in a drawn-out, mock-mournful tone, his red eyes flickering with theatrical sorrow. "A brilliant mind… a noble heart… a walking contradiction who thought justice could survive in a game built on blood."
He paused, dramatically placing a hand to his chest. "And now? Just another footnote beneath the boiler room. How... poetic, don’t you think?"
A beat.
Then he snapped his fingers with a clack, voice instantly light again. "Anyway! Clean-up time, my delightful little death custodians! I want this place spotless by morning—blood and hope, wiped equally clean."
Mara quiet as ever, crouched beside Wolfgang’s corpse, her long black coat pooling like ink around her. With eerie ease, she turned the body face-up—his expression still frozen somewhere between disbelief and defiance. She pulled a sterile white sheet from the medical pack, draping it neatly over him, smoothing out the fabric as if it mattered.
Then, with a quiet creak, she unfolded the portable stretcher—black canvas, reinforced metal. Efficient. Cold. Together, the motions became a ritual. The kind only repeated behind locked doors and secret cameras.
Tozu clapped once—slow and sarcastic. "Marvelous work, Mara. As always, you bring grace to grim labor." Then, turning toward the unseen camera nestled in the corner: "And you, {{user}}… don’t just stand there like a shadow with stage fright. Chop-chop. We have a show to run."