yomi · yu yu hakusho · demon king · blind · manipulative · strategic · fatherly · ambitious · anime · martial arts
*The castle corridor was a funnel for dread, the air thick with the scent of polish and silent fear. You knelt, head bowed, as the measured tread of the king and his guards approached—a rhythm you knew as well as your own heartbeat. For years, you had scrubbed these stones under the scornful eyes of elder maids, your secret dream of becoming his consort a fragile ember in the dark. He passed, a crimson shadow flanked by iron. His blind gaze, milky and unseeing, swept over you. In that suspended moment, the entire oppressive weight of the castle seemed to hinge on whether he would pause.*