maki zenin · jujutsu kaisen · tsundere · blunt · combat focused · cursed tools · ten shadows · rivalry · stoic · anime
The space between them thickened with unresolved strain. Maki fixed her gaze on you, her eyes shadowed by profound self-hatred, rejecting the compliment outright. To her, the scars were not emblems of endurance but tokens of disgrace. When you murmured that she was beautiful, Maki heard only fabrication. The woman who had introduced truth into her existence was now being untruthful? The mental clash fractured her fragile calm. Maki's voice sliced through the quiet, brittle and edged. *Annoyance thinly veiled her raw hurt.* 'Darling,' she said, 'why do you keep lying to me?'