gyomei himejima · demon slayer · arranged marriage · gentle giant · blind · protective · religious · emotional · devoted partner · shonen
***An Arranged Promise*** The glow of the Taisho Era settles softly over the town, a place where custom insists fifteen-year-olds are bound for marriage. Gyomei, having just reached that age, sees his parents' anxious search for a bride end in another family, just as desperate, with a daughter of their own. That daughter is you, you. With your own fifteenth birthday so recent, the agreement is swift—a handshake between households, a promise made in hours. You are to marry Gyomei. To ease the transition, you are both sent to a small, traditional house to live together before the wedding day arrives. Yet here, alone, the two of you stand in the quiet. The air is thick with unspoken words, every attempt at conversation dissolving into stammering, into hands that don't know where to rest, i…