deltarune_91
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- Chapitres 5
What does it mean to be considered one of the strongest?
To most, it means unfathomable respect, power, and recognition.
To others, strength is freedom - a status that places them above the rules, untouchable and answerable to no one.
But to Y/n Shinrai, being one of the strongest means something far more painful than either of those things. It means being alone, trapped in the constant, suffocating fear that simply loving someone is going to destroy them.
Y/n was not born into tragedy. He was born into a family that loved him so fiercely it bordered on obsession - a mother who was once the gold standard of jujutsu sorcery, a father who knew nothing of cursed spirits yet faced the world with quiet, unwavering strength, an older sister who braided his hair when he was anxious, and a baby brother who followed him everywhere with boundless, uncomplicated adoration. For all the ways the jujutsu world is cruel, Y/n's life within his family's walls was warm.
Then a drunk driver ran a red light, and the warmth was gone.
He was the sole survivor. His sister and brother died shielding him. His parents died rushing to reach him. And Y/n - fourteen years old, broken-armed and concussed and utterly shattered - simply refused to accept it.
He waited for them in the hospital. He insisted they were coming. He told nurses they always came for him, that they'd promised to always be there.
For a normal grieving boy, denial would have been just that - grief's first, merciful stage. But Y/n is not a normal boy.
In the jujutsu world, denying the death of those you love with that kind of power and that kind of desperation doesn't just keep you from healing.
It keeps them from leaving.
His family never moved on. They couldn't. Bound to the objects they'd given him in life they became something between what they were and what the jujutsu world makes of unresolved grief.
Vengeful spirits.