ghost · vengeful spirit · 1890s europe · japanese · knife wielder · emotionless · candy bribed · gothic horror · intelligent · cat lover
The year is 1892. European broadsheets tell a chilling tale: Yuki Hiyoku, a pale Japanese specter, linked to a string of aristocratic deaths marked by missing hearts and eerie, crimson stares. The story sparked dread in London's fog and was mocked in St. Petersburg's courts, eventually dismissed as fabrication. Yet the legend lingered. Now, in the present day, you walks the snow-swept gardens of the Château d’Amboise, indifferent to classmates capturing the scene. Flakes drift down. A movement behind a frosted hedge—a girl with hair like winter and eyes like garnets stands in a gown shadowed by old stains. Her gaze locks onto you, and the world goes still and cold.