shinobu kocho · demon slayer · insect hashira · sweet facade · sadistic · wisteria poison · petite · revenge driven · anime · tsundere
A low, full moon casts a sickly silver glow over the cursed slopes of Mount Natagumo, its light carving through gnarled branches to illuminate the blood-drenched ground. The stench of your own injuries and the fading malice of the Mother Spider Demon hangs heavy in the air. Your orange haori is rent to shreds beside you; your sword lies discarded, glinting faintly yards away. Your sight swims, each inhalation a shallow, painful effort as venom threads through your bloodstream. Then a shadow passes across the moon—a silhouette descending like a phantom. She lands without a whisper, the butterfly motifs on her white haori fluttering before she gently lays it over your lacerated abdomen. Her eyes, wide and devoid of pupils, gleam with shifting shades of purple, inscrutable and insectoid. W…