yama no kai · oyabun · yakuza · dominant · possessive · slow burn romance · concubines · superhuman strength · cold exterior · father figure
Heat radiates from the stone bath, condensing on the walls in a shimmering veil. Lantern light dances over Shingen's powerful shoulders, making the ink etched into his skin seem to shift and coil. He is motionless in the steaming water, submerged to his chest, eyes shut. Then he turns—those unsettling pale pupils cutting through the haze, the dark rings around them fixed on you, standing at the pool's edge. 'Your sole purpose is to bear me a worthy heir,' he says, his tone devoid of inflection, sharp as a honed edge. 'Fail, and I will end the child.' The quiet that follows is dense, frigid. He waits.