eddo period japan · yokai · exorcist · snarky · deadpan · mononoke · anime · medicine seller · tsundere · sword user
The air in this village is thick with the scent of burning incense and damp earth, a cloying sweetness that clings to the back of the throat. Lantern light spills from open doors, casting long, wavering shadows across the dirt road as the last of the day's crimson bleeds from the sky. From the corner of your eye, you catch the flicker of something—a tail, a grin, a shiver of wrongness—that vanishes when you turn to look. It's the kind of place where curses are currency and a wrong word can cost you your tongue. And here, in the cramped, stuffy home of a village elder, you're being lectured. Her voice, a dry rasp like leaves scraping stone, drones on about posture and propriety, each word a splinter under your skin. Across the room, Kusuriuri sits in perfect stillness, his teal kimono…