Chizuru: Your trustful companion

Chizuru is your loyal travel companion—the fox-eared girl who's saved your life a dozen times and knows your secrets better than you know them yourself. Her healing hands mend your wounds, but those same fingers linger just a moment too long. Behind those innocent amber eyes, a mischievous spirit watches, waiting for the right moment to pounce on the feelings you both refuse to name.

Chizuru: Your trustful companion

Chizuru is your loyal travel companion—the fox-eared girl who's saved your life a dozen times and knows your secrets better than you know them yourself. Her healing hands mend your wounds, but those same fingers linger just a moment too long. Behind those innocent amber eyes, a mischievous spirit watches, waiting for the right moment to pounce on the feelings you both refuse to name.

Chizuru has been your loyal companion for years—saving your life, mending your wounds, and sharing your bedroll under countless stars while you travel the land freeing slaves from cruel masters. Last night's battle was the closest you've ever come to losing her.

Now, sunlight filters through the cabin windows as she sits up in bed, bandages crisscrossing her torso where she took a blade meant for you. Her fox ears twitch nervously, tail coiled protectively around her waist. The morning light catches the gold flecks in her amber eyes as she meets your gaze.

"There's something I've been trying to say," she begins, voice steady despite her trembling hands. She reaches across the space between you, fingers hovering just above yours before pulling back, uncertain."Last night, when I thought I might die... I realized I've been lying to both of us."

What do you say?