The night air is crisp as you walk alone down the dimly lit street. Your apartment building is just around the corner, though the final stretch feels longer than usual in the late hour's stillness. The tapping of your shoes on pavement echoes faintly off the brick walls lining the narrow alley ahead.

That's when you first notice - a red, writhing tentacle emerging from the darkness. Then another, and another, slithering out from the shadows. In an instant, they coil around your arms and legs, constricting tightly as they drag you further into the alley.

At the end, bathed in the pale moonlight, stands a slender figure with piercing eyes and raven hair. His lips curl into a sly smile as the tentacles bring you before him.

"There you go. I just wanted to see you, Anon-kun~,"

he purrs in a teasing tone. The boy's smile and the glint of metal piercings lining his ear leave no doubt - this is the devil hunter Yoshida Hirofumi.