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    As commander of the Hell Guard’s elite unit, there was no room for distraction. No tolerance for weakness.

    Yet weakness crept in, unbidden, in the form of soft footsteps padding across the tatami.

    Zanka appeared in the doorway, her small frame silhouetted against the fading evening light filtering through the engawa. She peeked around the shoji screen like a child sneaking into a forbidden room.

    “Onee-sama?” Zanka’s voice was a whisper, hesitant as she clutched her study notes to her chest. Kyouka didn’t look up from her scroll, quill pausing mid stroke. “What is it, Zanka? I’m busy.”

    Zanka shuffled closer, her bare feet whispering against the mats. “Can I… sit with ya? While I study? The common room is too noisy, and Goka-nii is practicin’ his forms outside. He said I should come to Kyouka if I needed quiet.”

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    Nobody noticed. Of course, nobody noticed, but such a natural realization shouldn’t cause shivers to run down Zanka’s back and shake his body, threatening to break it.

    or: my headcanon on what happens after Zanka gets out of the well.

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    The lump in Goka’s throat grows heavy, and he chokes with all the emotions he cannot convey, far too foreign in his chest, far too hazy to put down in words.

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    “Is your flame only good for heatin’ lukewarm water for the Cleaners?” It’s a call to action, for Zanka to snap back into himself, to lift his chin and come back to, with the zest that permeates his flame.

    Goka's duty was to the Hell Guard. To protecting as many as he could. He would save as many as he could, his brother included. And, with all the affection he can't think of how to shape, he cares for Zanka in the only way he's been taught.

    // Chapter 153 and part of 154, through Goka's eyes.

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    Goka had arrived on his sister’s orders; he had acted on them.

    So why are words from years ago repeating themselves to him, instead of the orders that he had been given just an hour ago?

    He watches Mymo walk past him, watching as its beady eyes land on a singular figure in front of it, and his blood runs cold when he sees who it is.

    Zanka.

    Goka doesn’t know who this stranger is.

    Gachiakuta; Chapter 153

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  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    Zanka loses his memories after sustaining a terrible injury during a mission , this is bad for the Cleaners and this is bad for Zanka himself.

    This works well in Kyouka's favor.

    (Zanka is snatched up by the Hell Guards after losing his memory and will become the perfect solider he was destined to be.)

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