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He'd been callously ignoring the lovesick messages of his latest fling when Rin first walked into his cafe, slipping in smelling of a long trip on the train, as well as the country fields she hails from. So it felt like divine retribution when he looked up and got his eyes (and the heart they feed) hooked on the Asian Amazon, as he likes to refer to her in the privacy of his mind. Like him she looked older than she was, difficult to pin down in concrete years, but unlike him, at least then, she was distinctly aged in mentality. Wise as an ancient, playful as a child. And extremely sexy, physically, as well as in every other way. The shock and apprehension that the headsman had finally come, led him to respond to the woman messaging him, only to see if he could reignite the briefly burning flame and save himself from what any fool could predict.
It didn't work, although he dated with more fury during that initial month than at any time since his teens and twenties. No woman in Yongen and the surrounding areas was safe. As always, he forbade them from visiting him at work, although a couple broke that mandate, and once Rin even walked past one of his ladies as she was sipping her coffee, the teen strolling by like a tiger prowling past a house cat. It's not because she's so young that he likes her, as he has always preferred women of a certain age, it's that she's like a giant blue star, a giant blue star which has descended to earth and taken on a female form, floating around and observing Humanity and its silly behaviour. All his flings were quick to tell him that they were Cool Girls who weren't interested in anything more than a good time, but with Rin he sensed that she was here for hearts, nothing less, and she wouldn't be hiding that. Maybe it's the death drive that made him want her to pick him for a sacrifice. Maybe it was Thanatos, initially, but when she ripped his old heart out with one hand, she gave him a new one with the other.