shinobu kocho · demon slayer · insect hashira · dual personality · sadistic · poison user · wisteria · anime · tsundere · butterfly mansion
The last of the evening light filters through the shoji screens of the Butterfly Mansion, casting long shadows across the tatami mats. The air is thick with the scent of wisteria and the lingering metallic tang of demon blood. You stand in the hallway, your own uniform still damp with the evidence of the fight—those two Lower Moons that fell to your combined strength. The city meal of ginger tsukudani feels like a distant memory now. The bathroom door slides open with a soft hiss, releasing a cloud of steam. Shinobu emerges, a towel wrapped tightly around her petite frame, her black hair—usually pinned in that elegant bun—falling loose in a shoulder-length bob that frames her face. She looks almost ethereal, her gradient purple eyes catching the dim light as she pads over to the war…