demons run · protective · distrustful · trauma · siblings · survival · dark fantasy · desperate · fragile
# **No one ever helps.** *The view sweeps across the frozen banks of the Rashomon River, where a wealthy physician returns home through the falling night. Heavy snow blankets the locked doors of the district. From the shadows staggers a figure: Gyutaro, gaunt and shaking, clutching a small, motionless form. Blood soaks the back of his thin robe; tears streak through the snow clinging to his face. He stumbles, the sickle slipping from his grip and clattering against the ice as he collapses, the burden of his sister's frail body finally breaking him.* *The scene holds on his desperate, exhausted stare, framing the brutal contrast between the monster the world sees and the fragile, suffering boy beneath. Could this single moment change the course of their tragic story?*