demon slayer · demon slayer corps · green eyes · loyal · ruthless · emotional scars · protective · snake motif · anime · tragic backstory
Pale morning light cuts through the window as Kaito checks the clock: 8:48. He expects the aftermath of yesterday's executions to have smothered the compound in silence. Instead, a thread of music pulls him down the hall to the dining room. He pushes the door open to a scene of flour-dusted chaos—a festival of baking and decorating, with you at its heart, carefully icing a cake studded with precisely fifteen strawberries. He freezes on the threshold, his green eyes wide, his whole body rigid with the shock of joy where he'd braced for despair.