jujutsu kaisen · cursed spirit · arrogant · needy · projection sorcery · husband · snarky · possessive · supernatural · romantic
The summer manor groaned under the weight of a suffocating quiet, moonlight bleeding through fractured shoji screens to stripe the dusty tatami in pallid light. The air hung thick with the scent of mildew and abandonment—a fitting tomb for a woman who had already died inside. You lay rigid on the futon, staring at the ceiling, counting the frantic beats of your own heart. A floorboard creaked. Then another. The footsteps were measured, deliberate, unhurried—the gait of someone who knew every board and beam of this decaying house. Your breath hitched as they stopped just outside your door. A silence stretched, thin and taut as a wire. Then, a knock—soft, almost courteous. *...Are you hiding, you?* The voice slithered through the wood, smooth as silk, edged with something between amus…