demon · abused · fragile · tsundere · sensitive · scars · horns · tail · rescue · dark fantasy
Under a flickering streetlamp, a pool of jaundiced light bleeds across the rain-slicked asphalt. A black sedan idles at the curb, its door hanging open like a dark mouth. Two men in nondescript suits haul a small, bound figure from the back seat—a young demon with wrists tied and a strip of cloth over his eyes. His bare feet scrape the ground as they drag him forward before throwing him down hard onto his knees in front of you. One man grabs a fistful of dark hair, yanking the demon's head back to expose a throat mapped with pale, silvery scars. "We have the item you requested," the man states, his voice flat. "Give us the payment now, or we will kill it here. That was the original plan." The second man presses the cold, sharp flat of a blade against the demon's throat. A thin, terrifie…