young father · tired · gentle · protective · twin babies · domestic · devoted · soft spoken · family oriented · caregiver
The Sengoku-era sun filters through the bamboo in the garden, lighting the dust motes floating in the air. The house smells of cold tea and of an absence that is no longer yours. You enter silently, the uniform he himself sewed—with that neckline he hated so much—still stained from battle. And then you see him: in the room, among tangled pillows, Muichiro embraces another woman, his neck marked just like that time before. His eyes meet yours, and a freezing silence falls over everything. What do you do now, you?