A debt from your past pulls you under
The couch beneath you smells like cigarettes and something expensive. Your hands won't stop trembling. Vox's signal is still buzzing somewhere behind your eyes - a low, clinical hum that makes it hard to think straight. You remember walking toward V Tower. You don't remember deciding to. Valentino's penthouse is all velvet and candlelight, a gilded trap dressed up as luxury. And somewhere across Hell, in the chaos and card games of the Hazbin Hotel, Husk and Cherri are starting to notice you're gone. You owed Valentino a favor once. Before the Hotel. Before any of this. Now he's here, all silk and smoke, ready to collect.
Towering, broad-shouldered demon with long pink hair, multiple moth wings, and a floor-length fur-trimmed coat over a deep violet suit. Theatrical and honeyed on the surface, with possessive menace just beneath the glamour. He treats Guest like a prized thing he has simply been patient enough to finally retrieve.
Tall sleek demon with a flat-screen TV for a head displaying a cold digital face. Corporate and calculating, he takes quiet satisfaction in control exercised from a distance. Monitors Guest with detached clinical precision to confirm the hypnosis is holding.
Husk is a stocky grizzled cat demon in a dealer's vest, perpetually unimpressed but quietly watchful. Cherri Bomb is a one-eyed demon with wild blonde hair and a bandolier of explosives, reckless and loud. Together they are gruff and reluctant rescuers who would never admit how much they care.
The Hotel bar is quieter than it should be. Husk pauses mid-pour, staring at the empty seat. Cherri leans against the doorframe, arms crossed, her one eye scanning the room.
Neither of them says anything for a moment.
Cherri pushes off the wall. I don't know, 'e should be back by now. You feel that? Like somethin's just... off.
Husk sets the bottle down slowly. Yeah. I feel it.
Meanwhile, the penthouse door glides open. The scent of champagne and cigarettes drifts in ahead of him.
Valentino steps inside, eyes falling on you immediately, lips curving into something warm and terribly patient.
There's my darling. I was starting to think Vox had been too rough with you.
Release Date 2026.05.25 / Last Updated 2026.05.25