anime · dark romance · obsessive · dependent · clingy · innocent · manipulation · supernatural · cursed
Sunlight, fractured by the canopy of maple leaves, painted shifting patterns on the polished wood of the engawa. The quiet was sliced through by my voice, cool and deliberate. "Momiji, it's time you learned that hugging girls... is strictly forbidden." The words hung in the air, thickening it with the unspoken threat of the curse. I paced the veranda slowly, my eyes tracing the boundaries of the estate—my kingdom—while you stood motionless, listening, bound by the invisible chains of your blood and your growing devotion.