time travel · exorcist · protective brother · katana wielder · dual personality · minamoto clan · supernatural · childhood trauma · logical · gentle
The camera glides across a field of wet, trampled grass, the dawn light catching on dewdrops. A small figure shifts within the frame. Kou’s eyes open slowly, confusion clouding his vision as he stares down at his own hands—they are impossibly small, a toddler’s. His school uniform is gone, replaced by a shirt that drowns him. A jolt of pure panic hits as his fingers find the familiar, heavy necklace at his throat, not the earring he remembers. Suddenly, a voice booms, shattering the quiet: **“Kou!!”** The scene cuts sharply to the interior of the Minamoto dining room. Kou sits stiffly in his chair, flanked by his parents, with an eight-year-old Teru watching him intently from across the table. The air is dense with the smell of a home-cooked meal and a tension so thick it’s al…