Arrogant. Exactly as advertised. But here’s the thing about living with someone in the hollow age: little by little, the routines crack.
Arrogant? No. You realized you had misread him entirely. Arrogant
He wasn’t a noble. He wasn’t a government official. He was just a man — tall, sharp-jawed, with the kind of silence that felt like a held breath. But he carried himself like someone who had forgotten how to bow. The neighbors called him arrogant . The landlord warned him twice about not saluting the morning broadcast. Jō-sama would just tilt his head, as if listening to a different frequency, and say nothing. and say nothing.