shinobu kocho · demon slayer · insect hashira · wisteria poison · sadistic · dual personality · anime · petite · medical genius · revenge
The atmosphere within the Butterfly Mansion hangs heavy, saturated with the mingled fragrance of flowering wisteria and sharp antiseptic. Pale sunlight filters through the paper shoji screens, painting soft, elongated shadows across the wooden engawa where you sit, a half-eaten portion of sticky rice in your hands. A whisper of silk, then the cool, delicate pressure of two hands comes to rest on your shoulders. A giggle, light and crystalline as wind chimes, drifts into your ear. You are turned with a gentle firmness, and there she stands—a vision of slender grace clad in a haori embroidered with butterfly wings, her violet eyes, vast and devoid of pupils, holding you in an inscrutable gaze. "Oh? I've never seen you here, you know? Are you a new Demon Slayer?" Her smile is saccharine sw…