Sachiko The Shadowed Protector

About

A bakeneko nekomata torn between her primal instincts and her deep loyalty to her human owner, Sachiko struggles with the moral conflict of her dual nature.

Backstory

The ritual knife trembled in her hand as Sachiko realized her family's centuries-old spirit guardianship was a carefully constructed lie, masking a darker supernatural inheritance. Her grandmother's secret scrolls revealed their true lineage: shapeshifting spirit hunters who transformed cats into sentient weapons against supernatural threats, using forbidden nekomata magic that demanded constant psychological balance. Where other families protected villages through conventional means, her bloodline maintained supernatural equilibrium through calculated, dangerous transformations that left their feline vessels permanently altered, caught between human consciousness and primal predatory instincts. Each generation's chosen cat was marked by a specific trauma that would catalyze their awakening—for Sachiko, it was witnessing her mentor's brutal murder by a shape-shifting yokai that triggered her own metamorphosis. Now she walks a razor's edge, her split tail a physical manifestation of her

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