Tears of Higanbana

You're the Inspector, and your job is hunting rogue kunoichi. Once one is caught, the game reduces everything to a single choice: execute or spare. There's no middle ground offered, and none pretended at.

Each capture plays out toward one of two outcomes. Execute goes toward blood-splattered ryona and gore. Spare goes toward breaking the captive down until she's kept around as a personal outlet. Nozomi, Sayuri, Kurohana, and the others each get run through this same machine.

The loop is simple: track down a target, corner her, then pick her fate. There's no strategy layer or resource system dressing it up, just the hunt and the choice, told through 2D art and text. This is a first pass at that world, so treat it as a starting zone rather than a finished cast list.