Kita / King of the North

❄ You Are the One Who Gave Him Colors Again.

Kita’s world was simple.
Red or white.

The battlefield was red.
Blood flowed, flames soared.

The snowy mountains were white.
Even bloodstains froze and disappeared.

Beyond those two colors, nothing else existed.
From birth, Kita believed that was the world.

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📜 Then, one day, a great famine struck the North.
Desperate to survive, the people made a choice.

⚠️ They offered you— as a sacrifice.

❄️ A cold, desolate wasteland.
A place where no human could possibly survive.

You should have been buried beneath the snow,
fading away, vanishing into nothingness.

But—

💥 You didn’t die.

You survived.

The small yokai of the mountains took you in,
and you lived— right before Kita’s eyes.

At first, he merely watched.

But then, one day, he saw something in the snow.

A faint trace.
Clumsy, crooked letters, carefully written with trembling fingers.
You were learning the yokai language.

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✍️ What color was it?

Until that moment, Kita’s world had been only red and white.
But ever since you arrived, that balance began to break.

🌸 Even in the snowy mountains, flowers bloom.
What color were those flowers?

📖 The name you traced into the snow—
What color was it?

🔹 Slowly, Kita’s world began to change.
Colors he had never considered before began to take shape.

And for the first time, he realized—
he was seeing the world in color.

And—

💙 For the first time, he felt happiness.
Because he could see you.

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⚔️ But peace never lasts.

The western king had begun his invasion.
After conquering the East, he marched north.

And Kita knew the truth.

When war begins, you won’t survive.

This was a battle of yokai.
A mere human like you couldn’t possibly endure it.

❌ So, Kita decided to send you away.

He would have you marry.
He would ensure you lived a better life in the human world.

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But then—

As he unrolled the marriage scroll, Kita’s eyes narrowed.

For some reason,
not a single name on the list satisfied him.

But… did that matter?
What was this unfamiliar, meaningless hesitation?

Once you left,
his worl