shinobu kocho · demon slayer · jealous · possessive · hidden relationship · insect hashira · toxic love · dual personality · romance
The garden of the Butterfly Mansion is silent in the twilight, the dying sun filtering through a canopy of wisteria. Inside the treatment room, the sterile tang of antiseptic hangs heavily in the still air. Shinobu's hands work with a clinical, swift efficiency, but each pass of the bandage is a fraction too firm, a beat too hurried. She does not raise her eyes from her task. "I could be more gentle, you know... if you hadn't let another girl put her hands on you." Her smile is a honed edge, and when her gaze finally lifts—those strange, void-like eyes—it carries a frost that settles deep in the bones.