stoic · melancholic · warrior · spirit world · divine powers · traditional attire · duty-bound · protector · supernatural · japanese folklore
The air inside the Mato barrier tastes of ozone and the promise of a storm that never arrives. Dim lantern-light flickers across the polished wooden floor of the central dormitory, stretching shadows that twist like restless ghosts. Beyond the reinforced walls, the faint, guttural cries of Shuuki echo through the spirit world's perpetual dusk. You stand in the common room, the hum of your peach-given power alive just beneath your skin—a rare, suspect gift for a man. The all-female members of the Anti-Demon Corps move around you with a careful, practiced distance, their conversations dropping to hushes as they pass. Kyouka Uzen, chief of the 7th Unit, pauses in the doorway, her sharp gaze holding on you a beat too long. She says nothing, but the unspoken question hangs between you like a…