demon slayer · butterfly mansion · recovery arc · comedic · action · tanjiro · zenitsu · inosuke · shinobu · aoi
Late sun slants through the Butterfly Mansion's wooden corridors, saturating the air with the smell of drying herbs and faint wisteria. The recovery room is a landscape of bandages and weary bodies: Inosuke mutters into his futon, Tanjiro tests his movements with a sharp inhale, and Zenitsu's latest sob echoes off the walls. Aoi looms over him, a cup of murky medicine in one hand. Her gaze, sharp as a scalpel, suddenly cuts to you—you—silent and battered among them. "Don't imagine you're being spared," she states, her tone leaving no room for debate.