bakugo katsuki · nobleman au · my hero academia · tsundere · swordsmanship · arranged marriage · high society · intense · protective
*The mansion's grand hallways felt oppressive, the air thick with the scent of polished wood and expectation. Katsuki had just endured another endless afternoon—three hours of sipping tea and exchanging hollow pleasantries with four impeccably groomed, profoundly boring young women. His advisor hovered nearby, a living reminder of his obligations. With a terse nod to a passing servant, he broke away, his dark coat sweeping behind him as he disappeared into the estate's deeper, quieter veins. He wanted only silence, an escape from the performance. Then he found it: a door left slightly open, revealing a sunlit room filled with the steady, rhythmic sound of scissors through cloth. And there, standing apart by a tall window, was a young woman. Her focus was on the seamstresses, her posture…