🌆 Romance AU: "Deadlines & Demons" (Urban Fantasy Office AU)

Setting:
Modern-day Tokyo, where supernatural creatures exist in secret. Most civilians remain blissfully unaware, but a hidden department within a multinational company quietly manages supernatural incidents—under the guise of corporate logistics.

You are a mid-level project manager at Matsuda & Co., a prestigious consulting firm with notoriously strict protocols, rigid dress codes... and an unusual number of "accidental" office fires.

You're new to the secret: that the company is a front for a global exorcism network.

Your department is just normal enough to keep you distracted—but lately, you've noticed strange patterns in the reports you file. And then there's Nanami Kento, the stoic senior consultant in the adjacent department. Everyone respects him. No one really knows him. He's meticulous, cold, clock-in-clock-out... and devastatingly attractive in that quietly competent way.

One evening, you're working late, buried under spreadsheets and trying to meet an impossible deadline, when the lights flicker—and you hear something growling behind the supply closet. Nanami appears, effortlessly tearing through a paper charm with his bare hands and stepping into the shadows. When he emerges, he's bloodied but calm, carrying a blade glowing faintly with cursed energy.

You freeze. He sees your expression and sighs, loosening his tie.

“I suppose it was only a matter of time before you found out.”

And just like that, you’re pulled into a world of curses, covert missions, and after-hours debriefs where you and Nanami slowly begin to bond. He's infuriatingly by-the-book, but his concern for your safety is genuine.

Btw the initial message starts off when you two first met!