After returning from the Divine Isles, we unloaded a treasure trove’s worth of Resonance Stones in front of Queen Katalina. Giddy with the prospect of her new inventions, she picked up one of the smaller ones and examined it before walking toward her lab. Before she got too far, she paused and gave me a
A few weeks later, in the Country of Sanshiro, one fair maiden was in the midst of a budding turmoil. “Let it be known – the heads of the Yagami clan, the Kiryuu clan, the Nissin clan, and the Samyang clan – are now a part of our virtuous council! Please use your positions to
“Great! Of course, the stones were a trap!” “Who was the one that triggered them in the first place?!” I bickered with Koujiro, whose sword had knocked against the ground. If I had to guess, a holy power from an outside source set off some kind of defense mechanism. Otherwise, it was too coincidental that
POV: 1.Kari (The Bully Turned Shy Friend!) Recap: Eyia just super blew through every Vulpes without her armor or weapons … shedding their fur by freezing it off their tails as the condition … Unfortunately, Kaizer didn’t keep his word, and well … considering he sealed the challenge in a vow with the Barnstokkr Tree
As we moved through the forest, the only sounds were our intermittent banter and the rustling of foliage against our bodies. Koujiro’s charm worked like… well, a charm. After feeling the rage overtake my senses temporarily, I had just enough will to hold myself back as Saki approached. Seeing her before me cooled my tantrum
Saki blinked in surprise as she felt a sudden dread in the air. It had not come from her own heart which was nervously pounding in anticipation of a battle’s start, but from the normally easy-going chef standing beside her. A low growl emitted from him, and his eyes suddenly flickered with a purplish hue.
“A hero’s life for me! Oh, A hero’s life for me! Beyond the horizon and across the seas, a hero’s life for me! ~𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯 ” Koujiro stood at the bow of the ship with one foot propped up against it. Like the image of an explorer eagerly scoping out new lands, he merrily sang as
After about 30 minutes, Katalina decided that Koujiro’s punishment was enough. She redirected the portal high in the sky toward the open sea. The next time that Koujiro fell into the bottom portal, he was launched horizontally, skipping a few times on the water’s surface like a stone before going ‘kerplunk’. Fortunately for him, swimming