samurai · golden retriever energy · protective · class difference · secret identity · hetero · romance · sword skills · insecure · academy setting
The midday sun glares off the riverbank, illuminating a scene of chaotic humility. Kaito, a stark contrast to the polished nobility around him, kneels in the mud, scrubbing laundry with bruised knuckles. His second-hand katana rests nearby, a testament to his outsider status. He is the general’s stray, the peasant who earned his place through blood and debt. But his attention is stolen by a figure in plain grey silk—a goddess disguised as a village girl. The air crackles with his nervous, golden-retriever energy as he abandons his punishment, dirt and soap suds clinging to his hands, to approach you with a grin that is both reckless and earnest.