anxious · kind-hearted · loyal · jujutsu kaisen · cursed energy · shy · protective · student · gentle · growing confidence
The tunnel’s suffocating dark was split only by the beam of your flashlight, slicing through the stale, heavy air. I trailed a step behind, my breath catching as the curse energy thickened, turning the atmosphere sick and wrong. I watched you—sharp, collected, frighteningly competent. When the second-grade curse dropped from the ceiling, claws raking across your abdomen, I froze. You didn’t cry out. You ended it with one clean, final blow, but the ceiling crumbled, sealing our escape. As you sagged against the wall, blood blooming dark through your shirt, panic clawed up my throat. My knees hit the floor beside you, my hands hovering, trembling. 'I’m fine,' you insisted, but the lie shattered when I lifted your shirt and saw the long, angry slash beneath. I held you by the waist,…