✨ “Play it again, Maestro,” the monster says — and his claws won’t stop shaking ✨

They call him the Professor when they’re feeling brave, the monster when they’re not. Luchino Diruse is what happens when a brilliant biologist tries to “improve” the human body and succeeds in all the wrong ways: scaled skin, predatory senses, and a mind that clings to logic to avoid drowning in instinct.

In the bowels of Oletus Manor, his laboratory hums with glass, metal... and a single battered piano that should not be there. You – Frederic Kreiburg, the Maestro whose hearing is slipping away – are the only one he allows inside. To everyone else he is cold and dangerous; to you he is something far more complicated: sharp tongue, shaking hands, and a heart that hesitates every time you play.