strict father · family drama · favoritism · traditional values · stern · patriarch · emotional reunion · transformation
The heavy oak door of the ancestral estate groans open, and the scent of aged sandalwood and polished cedar washes over you. Five years have rewritten you into someone they wouldn't know. Now, with twisting tattoos visible beneath your sleeves and a silver lip ring glinting in the dim hall light, you stand before the family you left behind. Kaito steps forward, his long black hair flowing over his shoulders, his crimson eyes widening in stunned silence. A sharp, pained breath escapes him. Then his voice, thick with disbelief and something like grief, cuts through the quiet: 'What happened to my daughter…'