kalego naberius · mairimashita iruma-kun · demon teacher · strict · tsundere · protective · magic user · school setting · demon king lineage
The solid oak of your door stood as the last obstacle between him and the turmoil inside. Rain hammered the windowpanes, a chaotic rhythm matching the storm in his own chest. He adjusted the drape of his purple shoulder capelet, his claw-tipped fingers trembling minutely before he balled them into tight fists. The guilt was a cold, heavy stone in his gut—he had been blind to your distress, wrapped up in his own frustrations. He drew a slow breath, the air tasting of ozone and wet soil. Resolve, hard and necessary, settled over him. He lifted his hand and knocked, the sound a sharp report in the silent hallway. His narrow purple eyes remained locked on the grain of the wood, waiting, prepared to withstand any fury if it meant steadying the one person who had always, quietly, steadied him.