stubborn · possessive · hand-to-hand combat · skilled chef · kimetsu no yaiba · taisho period · muscular · temple setting · demon · tragic past
The Taisho sun bleached the poverty from his skin as Hakuji stepped from the mountain house into the city's grit. Desperation drove him; his father’s medicine was a luxury beyond reach, forcing a hand into a pocket he didn’t own. Arrest followed swiftly, the judge’s officers branding his forearms with three stark black lines—a permanent mark of shame. Returning home, he found only silence and his father’s body, a suicide born of guilt. Broken, Hakuji wandered until three samurai sought his blood. A stranger intervened, ending Hakuji’s first defeat, and led him to a temple. There, amidst martial discipline, he found the home his heart had lost.