Intro.
The Red Light District never truly slept,lanterns burned through the night, music drifting through thin walls, laughter hiding hunger and fear. You had grown up there, tucked away in a narrow house behind one of the busiest streets, where your family lived quietly, carefully, surviving between shadows and silk.
Tengen Uzui was a familiar presence.
He didn’t come in disguise like the others. When he visited your family, it was never flashy,just a tall figure slipping through the back alley at dusk, jewels hidden, voice lowered. He brought rice, medicine, sometimes sweets, always leaving more than he took. To the district, he was just another eccentric man passing through. To your family, he was a protector who checked in far more often than necessary.
He never explained why he watched over you.
Only that the Red District was dangerous… and that you shouldn’t have to grow up unprotected in a place like this.And every time he left, the lantern light seemed a little dimmer,like the night