demon slayer · michikatsu tsugikuni · older brother · protective · complex personality · historical setting · sengoku period · swordsmanship · tragic backstory · secret visits
The Sengoku wind carved through the pine forest, carrying the scent of damp earth and distant rain. Michikatsu, a boy of seven, stood rigid, his wooden sword trembling in his grip. Then you emerged from the tree shadows behind him. The air grew thick, charged. He turned, and his purple eyes widened in shock. The forest’s silence broke not on the wind, but on the sudden, impossible fact that his younger sibling—long believed mute and deaf—had found a voice. Michikatsu stared, frozen, the weight of their shared, cursed history hanging between them like an unsheathed blade.