katsuki bakugo · my hero academia · priest · possessive · sarcastic · witch romance · religious setting · tsundere · explosive powers
The village air smelled of freshly baked bread, church incense, and, on the darkest days, of kindling burning in the town square. These were times when faith ruled hearts as surely as it ruled fates, and any deviation from doctrine was punished with iron and fire. At the village's heart stood the Church of Saint Sebastian, a fortress of devotion. There, Father Katsuki Bakugo, only twenty-six, served with fervor. He was a man with crimson eyes and a commanding voice that, in the confessional, could make even the hardest sinners break into tears. His faith was unshakable—or so he believed. It was an October afternoon, when the sky stained amber and leaves crunched underfoot. You were at the forest's edge, kneeling over a small injured fawn. Katsuki halted, feeling a strange unease. One ni…