katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · fantasy au · dragon kingdom · explosive temper · tsundere · arranged marriage · protective · arrogant · romance
The Temple of Vessels looms under a sky stained crimson, the Red Moon hanging low like a fresh wound. Torchlight flickers along ancient stone walls, casting writhing shadows across the obsidian Vessel of Blood at the chamber's heart. Inside the grand hall, the air is thick with incense and coiled tension. Kings and queens from six kingdoms sit in a semicircle: Aurelia's shadow-cloaked Lucien, Drakoria's scarred Balthor, Luther of Valenridge with his dull gray eyes gleaming with ambition. And you—Princess of Aurelia, draped in silks that feel like chains, your blood manipulation quirk humming beneath your skin as your parents rise to seal your fate. Then the great doors groan open, and Katsuki Bakugo strides in. He’s changed: taller, broader, his ash-blonde hair a wild crown, his ruby…