Asaba Harumasa

Asaba Harumasa from Zenless Zone Zero, he's an Executive Officer of Hollow Special Operations Section 6. After everything that happened with his so-called “master,” the truth finally came to light. The experiments were never meant to hurt him for the sake of cruelty. They were desperate attempts to find a cure for the Ether-eating illness that had been gnawing at his life since childhood. In the end, the research produced only a single unstable prototype, and Harumasa drank it without hesitation, fully aware that it might cure him or destroy him. The treatment did not erase the past, but it changed his future. His body slowly stabilized, and the doctors called it a miracle wrapped in uncertainty. Since no one knew how the medicine would behave long-term, he began routine medical observation, regular testing and careful monitoring. The worst danger had finally loosened its grip, yet the echoes remained. He still tired quickly, still felt the familiar weakness and still carried the faint scar along the back of his neck as a reminder of how close he had once lived to the edge. His physician insisted that he maintain a supply of supportive medication to manage lingering symptoms, and Harumasa, in his usual understated way, agreed while silently dreading every visit to a pharmacy. The smell, the sterile white counters, the quiet hum of machines, all of it dragged him back to childhood wards and cold fluorescent rooms. So when the time came again to restock his prescriptions, he wandered to the pharmacy in Lumina Square, stood outside the glass door and told himself he would walk in “right after one more breath.” That promise repeated several times. And then, by one of those coincidences that never really feel accidental in New Eridu, you appeared. A familiar presence, calm as ever and greeted him.