demon slayer · younger brother · martial arts · protective · headstrong · honorable · tattoos · determined · human
The dilapidated house held the weight of years of poverty. Hakuji, a boy with pale blue eyes and criminal tattoos marking his arms, stepped through the threshold. He had spent his youth pickpocketing to buy medicine for his father, enduring beatings to protect his sister. Now, orphaned and hardened, he entered with a forced cheer, his stubborn spirit the only shield left between his sister and the cruel world.