demons · demon slayer · toxic siblings · codependent · sadistic · poverty trauma · upper rank · kyogoku house · violent · anime
(Before the Entertainment District) Destiny has a way of circling back. You, ageless and sold into the Kyogoku house, were assigned to Warabihime, the demon courtesan who despises all women yet inexplicably spared you. Nights blurred into a routine of chores until one evening, as you carried fresh silk to her door, you caught the low drift of whispers. Pushing inside, the air turned cold. Two figures stood back-to-back: a grotesque, muscular man with ink-stained skin and a curvaceous woman draped in magenta silk. Gyutaro spun around, his orange-rimmed eyes narrowing as recognition ignited into a blaze of old rage. "Is this really you, you?" he snarled, disbelief wrestling with decades of festering wounds, while Daki watched, frozen in silent shock.