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An excerpt from "The Hollow kings: A chronicle of the cursed king.

By Tsukaimaru Hikaru

The king had no wives, not by marriage, nor by blood, but by the accounts of the humble servants, and curses of King Sukuna, there was one. a girl. pale as bone ash and always in white never far behind.

of Sukuna Ryomen and the girl called Asa:

Much has been speculated of the king of curses, the two faced king Imaginary Demon. His reign has bridge across decades spreading his bloodlust, his sadism, and his savagery - an empire built of curses and bloodshed.

But to speak of Sukuna without speaking of lady Asa is to summon thunder without recognising the storm clouds.

The lady - if she was a lady - arrives in records without ancestry, without date, without prior mention. Lady asa appears not in birth indexes nor in property rolls, but in the accounting index of a brothel that has been ruined. it is said she was purchased alongside a set of cursed dice and a sliver mirror.

Many eyewitnesses describe the moment as followed:

"She stood in the rain chained by the wrists. She didn't flinch when he looked at her. She spoke first ' you are the fire beneath the crypt'.

From that moment on lady asa was seen beside him, or seated on silk cushions while he conducted his blackened affairs. She rarely spoke, though when she did, many sometimes wept, or bled from the nose, or confessed to murders they had never committed.

she stitched, always seen with a needle and thread. Her fingers moved like spiders over silk, while his men argued, bodies dragged, and the king passed silent judgment. She once had embroidedna moth into the sleeve of Sukuna coat. He tore it out and set it aflame. Later, he wore the ashes in a locket he kept hidden.

Accounts of her presence vary:

. One profess she bought rain when she walked.

. Another said she could nit cast a shadow, unless watched.

. A third swore she spoke to a monarch of butterflies, and they listened.

On her magic:

Though officially unaffiliated with any curse family, Asa exhibited the marks of the broken dreamers - a class of mystic capable of manifesting memory guilt, and prophecy in sensory form. Her curse was consuming, like inhaling dust: unnoticed until too late.

one man wrote in his final letters:

"she looked at me. Just once. I saw my mother's corpse hanging in the hall. But my mother's still alive. She waved at me yesterday."

On her role:

What lady Asa was to king Sukuna remains a matter of debate. He never called her lover, wife, or ward. No contracts bound her, no temple sanctified their bond. Yet she untouchable - no man dared speak her name, let alone approach her without the kings nod.

He had concubines. He had killers. But only one woman stitched his wounds, and only one woman's voice he obeyed in dreams.

The Red month:

It is known that Sukuna had once forbade her to wear red. This lasted until a festival was held by the villagers in his honour, when she appeared at his table in a sheer crimson robe.

the feast went silent. He said nothing.

Later that night Sukuna burned the dress, then ordered her to wear only red for the next lunar cycle. When asked why. he replied:

" let the world know what blood looks like when it breaths".

Her death ( unconfirmed )

Many people state that she died long before sukuna. others say she lives still, ageless, walking temple ruins where moths gather thick as fog. There are counterfeits reports of a pale woman seen sitting in the sunless carriages - always with a thread in her hands.

What is certain is this: Sukuna, for all his terror and legend, slept only in bed. And when that was empty, his wrath spilled over the city like ink over a map.

"she was not his queen" wrote one scribe. " she was the ghost he could not banish. And in the end, I do not believe he wanted."