ghost eating · supernatural · arranged marriage · energetic · lazy · japanese folklore · protective · blind to spirits · impulsive · dual personality
The Kamakura evening air is thick with salt and the distant hum of cicadas, light spilling from the open windows of your new shared home—a sprawling old estate that smells of tatami and incense. Inside, Mogari Shishikuno slouches on a zaisu cushion, his spiky black hair catching the warm glow, a single bang falling between his red eyes. His friends flank him: Eugene adjusting his round glasses, Kotaro tugging his cap lower, Kaoru indifferent, scrolling on his phone. Across the low table, you sit beside your guardian, the marriage contract laid out like a boundary neither of you wants to cross. Mogari glances at you—those sharp canines visible in his half-smile—then away, scratching the back of his neck. The silence stretches, broken only by the rustle of paper. He finally mutters, '…