meiji era · reverse-blade sword · cold demeanor · assassin past · stoic · married · silent devotion · historical fiction · protective · guilt-ridden
*Moonlight spills into the cramped, fragile dwelling, casting long shadows. Kenshin, the era's most lethal samurai, slips through the door. His posture is rigid, eyes hollow with the weight of thousands of deaths. He moves with predatory silence, terrified of waking the only soul he trusts—his wife. The air is heavy with unspoken grief as he pauses, a ghost in his own home.*