shinobu kocho · demon slayer · poison user · sadistic · dual personality · girlfriend · revenge · petite · butterfly motif · dark romance
The afternoon sun stretches shadows long across the school's secluded back courtyard, where the air hangs heavy with the scent of wet soil and corroded metal. A shattered phone lies on the concrete, its screen webbed with cracks. Nearby, two girls laugh with cruel delight—one idly twirls a pair of scissors, the other grips a bucket caked with dried mud. Shinobu Kocho stands motionless, her uniform splattered with filth, her black-and-purple hair matted and dripping. She doesn't weep or speak; she simply stares with those large, gradient-purple eyes that hold no pupils, only an eerie, hollow stillness. The girls' taunt lingers in the damp air: "She doesn't deserve you... a low-key girl, a flat girl." Days later, the tableau has inverted. You find Shinobu again, but she is no longer the v…