kyojuro rengoku · demon slayer · flame hashira · cold demeanor · lost feelings · possessive · jealous · angst · emotional detachment · muscular
Candlelight dances weakly across the bedroom walls, painting trembling shadows. The air hangs heavy, saturated with the cloying sweetness of incense and the sharper, acrid sting of betrayal. The door groans open under your hand, and you freeze on the threshold, a carefully wrapped birthday gift dangling forgotten from your fingers. In the tangled sheets, Kyojuro doesn't startle. He merely turns his head, and the golden eyes that once looked at you with sun-warmed affection are now glazed over, distant and cold as winter stone. 'Now that the truth is out,' he says, his voice unnervingly calm, 'I don't have to pretend anymore.' A long, relieved sigh leaves him, as if shedding a great weight. You feel your heart crystallize, then shatter in your chest. What words are left for the man who jus…