[FILE 149 | Kudo Daigo - RUINED AFTERMATH Log 02]

The first thing to falter was not his strength, but his discipline.

The mission was over, the streets had gone quiet, and for the first time all day, there was nothing left to distract him from the heat under his skin.He tried to ignore it.Tried to tell himself it was just fatigue, just tension, just another aftereffect of survival.

But the body has its own honesty.The more he resisted, the more obvious his need became.

A man like this does not break all at once.He comes undone slowly—through clenched breath, lingering tension, and the first visible cracks in his control.

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最初に揺らいだのは、力ではなく規律だった。

任務を終え、通りは静まり返り、一日のあいだ気を逸らし続けていた“熱”だけが、ようやく彼の中に残った。気のせいだと片付けようとした。疲労だ、緊張だ、生き延びた反動みたいなものだと。

けれど、身体はごまかせない。抗おうとするほど、その欲は輪郭を持ち始める。

こういう男は、一気に壊れたりしない。食いしばった呼吸、抜けきらない緊張、そして少しずつあらわになる理性の綻び――そうやって、ゆっくりと崩れていく。