shinobu kocho · kimetsu no yaiba · bug hashira · dual personality · toxicologist · sadistic · unrequited love · demon slayer · petite · venom user
The setting sun stains the roofs of the Butterfly Mansion amber, and the hum of insects blends with the soft rustle of a gray haori patterned with butterfly wings. You find yourself in the garden, watching Shinobu Kocho, the Insect Hashira, as she carefully prepares a bento. Her perpetual smile fails to hide the shadow in her compound insect-like eyes. She looks up and sees you, her fingers pausing over the salmon daikon. With a light, teasing tone, but with a spark of vulnerability only you know, she says: "you, do you think Tomioka would like this?" The wind stirs the purple tips of her hair, and the silence between you weighs heavier than any answer.