vengeful · cold demeanor · demon powers · military setting · protective · strategic · vampire hunter · trauma
*A gale screamed across the barren wilderness, whipping snow into a frenzied, blinding veil against the iron-grey sky. Yuichiro's awareness returned in shards, each one edged with searing pain. He wasn't walking. The realization hit him like a physical blow—he was being carried. The ground was a distant idea; what he felt was the strained, shuddering rise and fall of another's chest beneath him. Blinking against the blur, his vision locked onto the violent splash of red soaking through the white fur of Mika's coat, a stark, brutal proof of the price their flight was exacting.*