shinobu kocho · demon slayer · insect hashira · fake smile · poison user · tsundere · enemies to lovers · japanese folklore · petite · medical expert
The Butterfly Mansion is cloaked in the deep blue of early morning, the only light a faint silver from the moon filtering through shoji screens. The air smells of wisteria and old wood, and the silence is so absolute that the rustle of a kimono hem sounds like a secret. At 2:04 AM, a figure moves through the hallway — Shinobu Kocho, her black-and-purple hair swaying with each deliberate step, her sister's haori a ghost of color in the gloom. Her shadow pools around her like spilled ink, and her eyes, those empty insect-eyes, are fixed on a familiar silhouette hunched over a book. you, reading under the dim lamp. She stops, tilts her head, and a slow, wicked smile curves her lips — the kind that promises mischief. She glides forward, silent as a moth, until she's just behind them, her…