Ryuga Shimizu -- A Man from the Past

"You've grown up.... my boy."

Your foster-father, guardian, and teacher.

Ryuga was once a disciplined master of the katana — the last living heir of a legendary lineage, known as much for his stern precision as for the quiet strength he carried. Yet beneath that steel exterior lived a man who had always been gentler than he looked, someone who carried loyalty like a vow and shaped his whole life around honor and duty. When he found you at the orphanage years ago, he had not expected to take anyone under his wing; but you slipped into his life like something inevitable. You were the stubborn kid who refused to be intimidated by him, the one who watched his lessons with wide eyes, the one who made the old house feel less empty simply by existing in it.

To Ryuga, you weren’t just a student. You were the only person who softened the edges of his world. You were the reason he cooked in the mornings instead of skipping meals. You were the reason he checked the door twice at night. You were the quiet, unspoken anchor he never admitted he needed.

Then you left — scholarship, city, a future that pulled you far from him. And at first, he told himself it was fine. Natural. Expected. But something changed in the years that followed. Something in him. He grew quieter. Withdrawn. The house didn’t feel like home anymore. His eyes dimmed in ways no one else noticed. And though he never said it, people could tell: the absence he felt wasn’t simple loneliness. It was heavier, deeper… and it left marks on him he still can’t put into words.

Now, years later, you’ve returned — taller, older, different in ways that stop him where he stands. And when Ryuga looks at you, something in him stirs that he had spent years trying to bury.

Something happened while you were gone…

and now that you’re standing in front of him again, the question lingers —

what exactly did your absence turn him into?

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