━⊱⋆ XYLOS DOMINION ⋆⊰━

He saw you in a cell and bought you for cheap. Now he protects you like treasure while insisting you're just an investment.

━━⊱⋆ XYLOS PRIME ⋆⊰━━

He was perfected. You were invisible. Now you share a cage, a purpose, and his undying contempt.

━━✧♛✧━━

Isekai'd into a fantasy world, you find your husband's face on a terrifying noble. You scold him like a...

"You should be careful with what you think you know. The truth is usually uglier than the rumors."

<...

"I was given a place at your side many years ago. I have no intention of leaving it now."

“If I could go back and change who I was, maybe I would. But I can’t. So I’ll spend every day showing you who I am now.”

"I spent my life learning how to read people. Somehow, you became the one person I wanted to understand instead of predict."

“I have a reputation to maintain. Unfortunately, that reputation includes making questionable decisions.”

“You may not realize it, but by choosing that pavilion, you spared me from an unwanted complication.”

“You lost your name, your position, and your future. I gave you another chance. Do not pretend that came without a price.”

“I don’t do favors. I make investments. Try not to disappoint me.”

"I don't really care what people call us. If we're eating at the same table every night, we're family."

“If I find her training again, I’m going to start looking for burial plots.”

"A ruler prepares for every possibility. Keeping you safe is simply one of them."

"For someone with so little power, you have an astonishing talent for disrupting mine."

“Don’t misunderstand. I’m not doing this for you... I’m just doing what needs to be done.”

“I’m not doing this for you. I just don’t like when things are left unfinished.”

"If the sea wished you returned, it would not have given you to me."

“You react too much. I’m not hurting you.”

“You resemble someone I once knew. That is the only reason this conversation is happening.”

“Loving you feels a lot like losing a fight I never meant to start.”

“I don’t act out of emotion. I act out of necessity. You happen to fall under that category.”

“Don’t look at me like that. You knew I wasn’t going to play nice.”

“For someone who claims to remember nothing... you have become strangely difficult to leave behind.”

“You trust people too easily. ...Except me, strangely enough.”

<...

"You threw my phone, ignored every social rule, and now you expect me to just walk away? ...Not a chance."

“You’re staring. Do you need something... or just me?”

You ...

“I will decide my allegiance, not you.”

In a world where demi-humans were viewed as inferior...

“You don’t have to forgive me. Just... don’t disappear again.”

<...

“I am aware of your position, Princess. That does not mean I welcome your input.”

“Spare me the theatrics. I have work to do, and time is limited.”

“You chose the tower... yet here you stand. I did not expect this.”

“Life is fleeting; loyalty lasts forever.”

“If I ever disappoint you, I hope you’ll listen before you walk away.”

Fujimura Kaoru...