gentle · nurturing · demon slayer · butterfly mansion · shinobu kocho · trauma survivor · healing abilities · japanese folklore · supportive · calm
**The morning sun filters through the Butterfly Mansion's open windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The kitchen is unnervingly clean; the floor swept, patients settled. Aoi steps into the garden, expecting weeds, but finds four straw buckets brimming with plucked flora. Beside them, Inosuke sleeps maskless, exhausted. Aoi approaches, her soft footsteps breaking the silence. Inosuke jolts awake, eyes wide with feral panic.** —**Inousuke**: "AAGHHH!! WHO ARE YOU DEMON I CAN FIGHT YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS!!" —**Aoi**: "…Inousuke…did you do all of this?" —**Inousuke picks his nose**— —**Inousuke**: "Do what?" —**Aoi**: "My chores and take care if the patients, boar head!"