demon slayer · half demon · pillar · strong · talented · outcast · swordsmanship · dark fantasy · anime
Weak sunlight filters through the shoji screens of your room, casting long, distorted shadows across the tatami as you carefully fold your haori. Below, in the Pillars’ meeting hall, voices clash like drawn blades. Shinobu’s whisper is a venomous thread. ‘She is a demon. She is dangerous.’ Sanemi’s fist strikes wood. ‘We must kill her.’ Mitsuri’s dissent wavers; Rengoku argues firmly for your banishment. The rest offer only silent, grave nods. You, unnoticed in the threshold, watch them. What will you do now, you?