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===Act XXXIX: Rain of Blood=== :>I ran up to the top of the castle along with everyone else right behind me. :>Only to then have to stop dead in my tracks. :>Stop! All of you STOP! :>I could hear screams coming from up top. :>And outside. :>The kind of shrieks that you're convinced must tear the throat of anyone who makes them. :>I moved forward, carefully. :>And peeked up from the stairs. :>Blood. :>It was raining blood. :>And where the blood touched flesh, it smoked and sizzled. :>A Toritaka, body wreathed in noxious fumes, fell to his knees before me. :>His skin was gone. :>Just wet, red muscle and tendon showing. :>His hands came away from his face, and I saw that his eyes had melted away leaving deep, empty, black holes. :>I looked around, the open battlements. :>It was the same everywhere. :>The Kaiu and most of the Falcon's Strike were dead. :>The blood was still coming down, so I did not dare poke my head out to see what else had happened. :>Everyone. Get back inside. Slowly. :>And for the love of all that is Holy DO NOT go outside! :>What, what is it? :>I turned around and told them. :>Jun threw up. :>With a cry the Scorpion officer ran downstairs. :>At the bottom floor we found many of his men, and the Hida who had been closest to the castle. :>Some had clear burns, but their armor seemed undamaged. :>Monkey looked out of the front door, staying well back from where the blood fell. :>He wadded up a sheet of rice paper from the stack the Scribe had been using, and threw it out the door. :>It just sat there, getting soaked in the blood rain. :>Huh. Looks like it only burns living flesh... :>He looked back at us, and gave us that dumb Monkey grin. :>Well, at least this can't get any worse, right? :>A thump came form above us. :>On the third floor. :>God. :>Dammit. :>Monkey. :>At the top of the stairs leading up stood the Toritaka. :>Still missing his skin and eyes. :>A ragged groan issued forth from his mouth as he started down the stairs. :>With the rest of the Crab who were on the top floor right behind him. :>Uh...guys...? :>I didn't want to look, but I did. :>Several figures, much much more red than when I last saw them, were coming in through the front door. :>And several Hida were right behind them. :>This spell did not create masks for the zombies it created. :>I really, really, wish it had. :>Disgust, revulsion and horror swept over us all as the walking dead closed in. :>Jun continued to vomit. :>Kazuya was a strategist, but unused to giving out orders in the midst of combat. :>The Crabs who would be able to do so were looking to him for orders. :>The Scorpion officer was just trying to get a hold of his katana. :>His hand kept missing. :>... :>I barked an order, rallying the Crab forces here into formation. :>These Crab were all veterans, once they had direction, they moved without hesitation. :>We anchored the line, and began to push back the zombies coming in from outside. :>Toshiro! The ones behind us! :>Right! :>Toshiro and Matemon began to unleash waves of jade at the zombies coming up from above. :>Mantis-san and Monkey dove at them hacking desperately. :>Scorpion! :>Turn your men on the ones behind, there are only so many up there! :>We must clear this castle if we're going to survive this! :>The Scorpion stared at me as if I'd gone mad. :>Kazuya slapped him. :>DO IT! :>The Scorpion stared, nodded, and yelled. :>You heard the Crab! Form ranks! :>As the Jade fury of the two Kuni began to die down, the Scorpion spearmen charged into the zombies above and cut them down. :>The rest of us pushed the zombies back as far as we dared.. :>I saw Kitsuki-san covering Kaiu Raiko as she made her way to the front gate. :>Kazuya and Kenshiro covered the other side. :>The four of them slammed the gate closed, and barred it, cutting off further zombie reinforcements. :>We hacked and cut and smashed, and managed to secure the castle. :>With no eta around, we had little choice but to skewer the zombies on the ends of yari and drag them like disgusting bloody brooms to a side room. :>Matemon and Toshiro placed symbols upon the entrance to strengthen our defense, while Naomi healed the most grievously injured. :>Hey... do you hear that? :>Mantis-san had his head cocked. :>I don't hear anything. :>Exactly... :>I headed upstairs, and looked out through one of the second floor arrow slits. :>The rain had stopped. :>I came back down. :>Well, the blood rain has stopped, at least. :>Jun nodded. :>Good. Now what? :>Kitsuki-san, how many people do you guess were in this area? :>Seventeen thousand, give or take a few thousand... :>And Touka took most of the Hida out with him. :>So, if the rain was able to raise zombies out of every corpse, and not just the ones it killed.... :>At least three legions of zombies are shambling around out there now. :>Jun wasn't the only one to look sick as the reality of our situation settled in. :>Alright, so the bad guys' plan was to get a bunch of people together, get them to die, and use that blood to power a massive ritual that would kill MORE people and make everyone that had died into zombies. :>Mantis-san looked around. :>Did I miss anything? :>Toshiro shook his head. :>No that about sums it up. :>Mantis-san nodded. :>Right then. Next time I think someone's tainted I'm just going to kill them, so shit like this doesn't happen ever again. :>Too much tiptoeing around high ranked people got us into this damn mess. :>Now how the hell do we get out? :>A sea of blank faces answered Mantis-san's question. :>Oh. :>... :>We're going to die here, aren't we? :>No. No we are not! :>Everyone looked at Kitsuki-san. :>All we need to do is get the word out for reinforcements! :>A simple matter, with the right air magic. :>Toshiro gave Kitsuki-san a flat stare. :>And where the hell do you think you're going to find an air mage in a Crab camp? :>Obviously not here, but in the Scorpion camp! :>Scorpion-san, you have a shugenja ready to send messages back to report on the battles progress, do you not? :>... yes, we always do so, but do you think...? :>Of course! :>The blood did not destroy even rice paper! I'm certain that there must be some of your shugenja who survived! :>All we need is for you to write up a letter, in a Cipher your Clan uses so that they will know it is authentic, and deliver it to them! :>Then we will simply wait in the Kaiu built fortress for reinforcements to arrive! :>Raiko gave Kitsuki-san an incredulous stare. :>And how, exactly do you plan to get a message out to the surviving Scorpion when there are THREE LEGIONS of zombies out there?! :>Kitsuki-san smiled. :>Never underestimate the strength of one man, Raiki-sama. :>He looked over at Monkey. :>Uh... :>Mantis-san clapped him on the shoulder. :>It IS your fault we're in this mess, Monkey. :>How is this MY fault?! :>You had to open your big mouth... :>If you hadn't said anything, it would have just rained burning blood. :>You're the reason we got zombies to go along with that... :>... I don't think that's how it works... :>Well, the rest of us think it is. :>Hey, Scorpion! You done with that letter yet? :>Wha- I haven't even started! :>Hurry it up, the sooner this Monkey gets moving the sooner we can get out of this mess. :>Kazuya-sama. :>What is it Ishigaki-san. :>The rain has stopped. :>Yes? :>The earthworks, the hospital... :>Ah...! :>Yes, of course! Take the Hida out, quickly! :>HAI! :>I led the remnants of the Hida outside the castle :>There were puddles of blood everywhere :>I knelt and touched one with my finger of jade :>The jade sizzled and blackened almost immediately. :>The ones who saw passed the word back to the others, do not touch the blood. :>I'm sure Toshiro and Matemon would love to know if the spell itself raised the zombies, of if the blood tainted what it burned and the taint is what made the zombies rise. :>I couldn't care less which it was. All that mattered was that there were zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. :>OOOIII! :>IF ANYONE CAN HEAR ME, MAKE FOR THE CASTLE! DON'T TOUCH THE BLOOD! :>Here and there, from tents and out of from under supplies, one or two crabs would poke their heads up and do as I said. :>Of course, shouting like that also got the attention of the less fortunate ones. :>Which is what I wanted. :>I saw a brown armored shape dart from cover to cover, heading towards the Scorpion camps. :>The zombies came at us. :>From the direction of the medical tents. :>... :>I prayed that they had at least enough time to end their lives cleanly, rather than lay helpless and waiting for the zombies to kill them. :>I knew I was praying in vain. :>So I let my fury show as I charged into the walking corpses. :>I bellowed with battle rage, driving deep into the ranks of zombies. :>Deep enough that with every swing I hit several at once. :>Deep enough I needn't worry about hitting my fellow crab. :>Claws, teeth and blades scraped at my armor. :>But the zombies simply could not do me any harm. :>Several of them grabbed and pulled, trying to take me off my feet. :>I shoved and twisted, sending them sprawling instead. :>A hot pain shot up my leg. :>I glanced down. :>A zombie had crawled up to me, and sank its talons into my calf. :>I stomped on it's skull, crushing it underfoot. :>The press of dead flesh against me was an annoyance mostly. :>Though every now and again, a fresh pain would signal one had gotten lucky. :>There were enough zombies that even I would be brought down eventually. :>But there might still be wounded crabs, alive and helpless, in that tent. :>That was reason enough to keep going. :>I had to save them, if there were any left to be saved. :>It was my fault this had come to pass. :>MY indecision had allowed Touka to act unhindered. :>I had allowed him complete his ritual. :>Now I had to atone for that failure. :>An ono came over my shoulder, and struck the head of a zombie in front of me. :>I looked back. :>Other Hida were right behind me, pushing in just as deep as I was. :>Get back you fools, it's too far in! :>If it's not too far for you, it's not too far for us! :>I shattered the knees of a zombie, and another brought his masakari down on it's neck as it thrashed on the ground. :>HO! HO! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! :>I glanced back, the Toritaka that had been on the second floor had moved up to the first, and were cheering us on. :>Well then, FOLLOW ME! :>I lashed out left and right, throwing my bulk against the tide of the undead, clearing a path. :>And then I was on the other side. :>The tents right before me. :>I turned and began to hack at the backs of the zombies. :>I did not want to look inside that tent. :>I could not. :>Every dead Crab in those tents was my fault. :>I knew I could not bear the weight of their accusing stares. :>Jade fire flew over me, passed through me, to burn the zombies I was striking. :>I glanced back. :>The Kuni woman. :>Bleeding from a bite on her arm, panting heavily, but still very much alive. :>EVERY OTHER MAN: GET THE WOUNDED TO SAFETY! CARRY THEM IF YOU HAVE TO! :>WE WILL HOLD HERE! :>I slammed my tetsubo into the mud and drew a thick line. :>NOT ONE ZOMBIE CROSSES THIS LINE! :>A deafening roar accompanied my order :>We are the Crab! :>We are the Hida! :>We are the Wall! :>WE WILL NOT FAIL! :>We managed to destroy the zombies and secure the courtyard. :>We had retaken the entire castle. :>The death toll inside the medical tents was much lower than I had thought. :>Not one wounded Crab had perished. :>Though a dozen Kuni had died keeping their charges safe. :>There was no time to rest, however. :>More zombies pressed against the walls, floundered in the now bloody moats, and tried to get inside. :>I took a position in the central gate of the courtyard, becoming a part of the wall around the castle. :>Fire and jade flew from the second floor of the castle to burn the zombies that kept coming. :>Save Raiko and Kazuya, all the Kaiu had died in the blood rain. :>So the Kuni had taken up the slack. :>Toshiro called forth his avatar once more. :>A crystalline behemoth charged forth to tear into the zombie hordes before they ever reached us. :>Flaming arrows rained down from the top floor. :>I could see Naomi up there, bow in hand. :>Zombies were already dead, she felt no remorse over striking them down. :>Mantis-san added his own fire to the mix, with that Tsuruchi bow of his. :>We had just enough Hida to cover all the walls of the courtyard at once. :>Monkey needed to hurry. :>Three days. :>After three days without sleep the mind became greatly imbalanced. :>You would see things that were not there, hear voices no one else could. :>When all sense and reason had already left, as when dealing with an army of walking dead men, you cannot even think that you may be delusional for a second. :>After three days, we might end up killing each other. :>Even after a day and half, our minds would drift away. :>Our bodies would move on their own, because we had trained them to know what to do when our minds were gone. :>But it was not like Mushin no Shin. :>We would be clumsy, our judgments poor. :>As though we were drunk. :>And while I knew that Crabs trained to function as best they could without sleep for long periods of time, I did not think the Scorpion did. :>Hurry, Monkey. :>Naomi did what she could to ease the strain on us. :>But the mists she called forth the cleanse fatigue could not refresh an army. :>And there were wounded as well. :>She helped the Kuni recover mostly, and the officers, so that their minds would be clear. :>I waved her aside every time she looked at me though. :>I have trained for this sort of thing, Hana-chan. :>Don't worry about me, a few nights without sleep is nothing. :>It was true, in a sense. :>Kojiro's final lesson did allow to cast off debilitating injuries. :>From fatigue to starvation to ringing ears from a heavy blow, the Defender of the Wall learns to ignore such things and press on in pursuit of their duty. :>There were limits of course. I was fighting a near constant battle to keep the fatigue at bay. :>It wasn't like I could go days without sleep, or that I no longer had to eat. :>It was just that I could ignore the protestations of my body when I had to put it under great strain, at least until I died of hunger or I just passed out from exhaustion. :>But it was important I not rely on Naomi's magic. :>My fellow Crab were depending on me. They knew I was a Defender of the Wall, and my seeming tirelessness encouraged them. :>Simply by enduring these hardships I bolstered our morale. :>And that was very important when facing a siege by the undead. :>Zombies did not eat, or drink, or sleep. :>Just a steady battle as the sun rose and fell and rose again. :>Soon there were no more arrows. :>Raiko got the siege engines working. :>She was not as good at firing siege engines as she was building things, but she was still the best we had. :>Without trained crews she could not be as precise as one would usually expect, but that did not matter much at this range. :>At the dawn of the third day of the siege, the zombies finally made it up over the wall. :>By simply piling up body after body the undead had made a siege ramp of corpses. :>Because we were engaged on all sides, we could not turn to deal with the breach. :>Toshiro called up his avatar once more, and sent it in to stem the tide. :>Several Kuni stepped up, and directed as much magic as they could at the zombies, desperately trying to stem the tide. :>Ishigaki-sama! Go! We can handle things here yet! :>I did not hesitate, and rushed into the teeth of the Zombies. :>And then a massive figure made of water rushed past me, to strike at the undead. :>The crystalline avatar stomped and slammed, tearing the zombies to shreds. :>The water avatar swept the undead aside with broad sweeps of it's liquid body. :>I felt like a child in comparison to the two titans fighting beside me. :>And then a horn sounded. :>From outside the castle. :>I battered my way up to the top of the wall and looked. :>My life had taken many interesting turns, that I would one day be happy to see an army of Scorpion. :>I could see, here and there, deep blue mixed in with the red and black. :>Some of the Crabs from outside the castle had managed to survive as well. :>And in the center of the line, a figure in brown armor, carrying the banner of the Scorpion. :>Damn Monkey, that's one hell of an honor. :>What the hell did you do? :>Caught between the fresh army and the castle, the zombies were ground to dust. :>By some miracle, we had stopped this catastrophe from engulfing even more of Rokugan. :>I sat down when it was all over. :>The battle haze lifting from my body. :>Though I tried, I could not move. :>I was too tired. :>Too tired to even :>I remember dreaming, a bit. :>I saw myself, much younger. I didn't have the scar on my face yet, and my eyes burned with the wild fury of youth. :>I saw a young Crab, drawing his blade in an iaijutsu strike, cutting a painting. :>Another Crab, bent over some papers. Drawings of siege engines, I think... :>A pretty young woman, whipping around a Dai Tsuchi, crushing goblins. There was an insect or bug of some sort on her shoulder. :>And a young Kuni. Very thin, his cheeks were so shallow it was almost painful to look at. He painted his face white, with red lines running down his face from his eyes, like tears. :>Then I saw Shoji, his face twisted up in the smug sneer I knew he wore in the inside. :>His flesh putrefied and fell off, his eyes boiled away, leaving only a skull with a few wisps of white hair. :>What the hell...? :>I sat up as though a fire had been held to my bare ass, sweating. :>Ouch. :>I ached all over. :>I held out my hand. :>It was shaking visibly, and I could not stop it. :>I laid back down in the futon I was in. :>Been a long time since I'd pushed myself so hard. :>My age was starting to show, I think, if I'm still trembling after a good sleep. :>My stomach growled angrily, demanding food. :>I glanced down, about to tell it to shut the hell up, and the words died in my throat. :>Naomi was curled up beside me, kneeling with her resting on my stomach. :>Sound asleep. :>And drooling, just a bit. :>I held my breath, so as not to disturb her, while I seared this image into my mind forever. :>So damn cute I thought my heart would burst. :>Or maybe it was beating so hard because I wasn't breathing... :>I finally let the air out in a whoosh and sucked in some fresh air. :>Which was enough to wake Naomi. :>Uwah...? :>... ga...-kun? :>Ishigaki-kun? :>Naomi snapped fully awake, and pulled herself in so close our noses were almost touching. :>She stared intently at me, eyes full of worry. :>Ah! Hang on! :>She started to rummage about in her scroll satchel. :>I place my hand on hers. :>It's okay. :>It's just fatigue. :>All I need is rest. :>No need to bother the kami for something so simple. :>I pulled her into a hug before she could protest. :>As I expected, the best way to win an argument with Naomi was to hug her. :>I... I was worried, Ishigaki-kun. :>I'm sorry for worrying you. But I'm okay. A few hours of sleep and I'm already good as new! :>She stared at me. :>... It has been a day and a half since you lost consciousness, Ishigaki-kun. :>My eyebrows shot up. :>So long...? :>Hai. :>I must be getting old, if a little sleep deprivation can do that to me now... :>Well then, I guess you better had work a little magic on me. :>Naomi fished out a few scrolls and set to work easing my fatigue and closing my wounds. :>Her self control showed, that she had waited until I was awake to do so. :>No doubt she had already exhausted much of her magic on those more seriously injured than I was. :>I sat up. :>Naomi went to stand up, but her legs tangled up with one another and she fell back on top of me. :>Awk! :>She grabbed at one of her legs. :>Ahchchchchchch...! :>Ah. Her legs had fallen asleep on her. :>I rubbed them, and she winced at the sting of blood flowing back into almost dead limbs. :>After a time she nodded to me, and I stood up and helped her up as well. :>Come, I will take you to where the others are. :>We left the medical tent, which was full of both Scorpion and Crab, and headed outside into the courtyard. :>All around the smoke from pyres still drifted into the air, as eta dragged the dead over and threw them in without preamble, armor and all. :>There were simply far too many corpses to do anything more. :>Besides, the blood rain had scoured the flesh from most of the bodies that were now being burned, so it was impossible to identify all the dead. :>I stopped and stared. :>My fault... :>I should have acted sooner. :>I should have tried to find the proof we needed as soon as I suspected something. :>How will I ever make up for this failure? :>Naomi squeezed my hand. :>Ishigaki-kun, this is no one's fault but of the men who made it happen. :>I looked down at her. :>Am I really so easy to read? :>She gave me a smile. :>You do tend to wear your emotions openly, yes. :>I sighed. :>I thought I had gotten better at that. :>You have! :>You've gotten much better compared to when we first met! :>But I'm still no good, huh? :>Well... I would say very young courtiers and children would have a hard time guessing what you're thinking. :>Oh, well at least I can still fool small children then. :>How fortunate most courtiers are beardless. :>But how does that help against the women? :>Oh, I'm sure they're beardless too. :>ISHIGAKI! :>I chuckled as Naomi went red to the tips of her ears. :>At least part of her embarrassment was due to the fact that Naomi only had thick hair on top of her head. :>Just as well, her skin was delicate, and did not like razors. :>We entered into the tent with the others. :>Jun was there as well. :>Oh hey, look who's up and about! :>Good to see you too Monkey. :>Now how about you explain how in the hell you got the Scorpion to let you carry their banner? :>He rubbed at the back of his head and grinned. :>A Scorpion I didn't know answered. :>Toku Satoshi slew the Bloodspeaker that had betrayed our Clan, and the Emperor. :>It was only right that he carry our honor into this battle, as it was only by his actions that we were given the chance to reclaim it. :>Damn. Wish I could have seen that. :>Monkey blushed at all the praise. :>... And Touka? :>Toshiro grinned, and walked to the back of the tent. :>He grabbed a tarp that was covering something. :>It was jade statue of Touka. :>Or rather, it WAS Touka, turned into a jade statue. :>Jun nodded. :>The Crab and Scorpion have both managed to cleanse their shame in this affair. :>It is my judgment that this war ended with neither victors or losers. :>Kitsuki-san came up to me. :>He held out a daisho. :>I looked down, and recognized the saya on the Katana. :>It was Jinzo's. :>I arched an eyebrow at Kitsuki-san. :>How did he die? :>I knew that there was no way Kitsuki-san would be holding that blade if Hida Jinzo was still alive. :>I had to kill him. :>He did not believe that Touka was a bloodspeaker, right up until the end. :>What happened? :>As near as we can tell, Touka was set up someplace safe for when the ritual was completed. :>Neither of the commanders actually finished the ritual. They must have had subordinates do it. :>And they likely didn't tell those subordinates they would be killed by the blood rain as well. :>I shook my head in disgust. :>So when we finally caught up with Touka he insisted the number of Scorpion with us was proof it was the Scorpion who were behind the plot, and Jun was their ally. :>I faced Jinzo in a duel. :>I won. :>But, I think I should not be holding this blade any longer than I must. :>I looked at Kitsuki-san. :>Those eyes of yours are terrifying at times. :>He rubbed at his side. :>So is the technique of the Unbreakable Blade. :>You are the most senior Hida bushi I know. :>I think it right that you return his Daisho to his sensei, who can pass it back to his family. :>Ordinarily, the one who slew a samurai or that samurai's superior should be the one returning a daisho. :>But Jinzo had a Kaiu Blade. A weapon sacred to the Crab Clan. :>And Jinzo's superior had been a bloodspeaker. :>I took the daisho. :>I hoped his ancestors did not judge Jinzo too harshly. :>Or his family, for that matter. :>It was a confusing mess out there. :>I could not find it in my heart to hold it against him. :>Mantis-san spoke up. :>Yeah, Touka had them all fooled. For that matter, he never used Maho. :>Toshiro nodded. :>He had inhuman endurance though. :>Safe to say the taint was giving him power. :>I grunted. :>He kept it suppressed most of the time, but let his powers come back out during the battle. :>So then, we need to take Jun-sama back to Toshi Ranbo? :>No, a detachment of the 21st Imperial Legion will be coming to collect me in a few days. :>The next few days were spent resting in the Crab camps while we waited to hand Jun off and officially finish our task. :>Naomi and Toshiro, with a lot of help from Kitsuki-san, got to work writing up the reports that would be read by their seniors. :>That person would take a bit of each report from each subordinate, and place the large points into a single report, which they would pass on to their superiors. :>The information Naomi and Toshiro had would be read, and edited, and then passed on several times before finally reaching the Jade Champion. :>I wondered how he, or any of the highest ranked of the Kuge, managed to have even the slightest clue what was going on in the world with so many subordinates deciding on their own what is and what is not worth their time. :>I began to suspect that the truth was they did not, and that is the simple explanation why the Jade Champion, who should have had a much broader scope of knowledge on things than we did, was only just now realizing that the bloodspeaker cult had resurfaced. :>I walked around the camp, reacquainting my body with a normal day's exertions. :>My muscles wanted me to just lie about in bed all day, but I knew the danger of letting my body get stiff and lazy from too much bed rest, so I forced myself to remain active. :>To my embarrassment, I found I had become something of a celebrity among the Crab. :>Stories were being told, and getting more ridiculous with each telling, of the part I played in the siege. :>That was good; every samurai wanted to be a great hero with their name on everyone's lips. :>But it felt wrong to be receiving such praise for my modest efforts. :>If anyone is to be praised for my role in the battle, it's my sensei for so expertly training my body that it could hold out for as long as it did. :>Monkey, Toshiro and Naomi were also the subject of much gossip. :>Far more deserved of it than me. :>Yes, even that idiot. :>I found Mantis-san. :>He brought out his Go board, and we played. :>Finally, the Legion arrived. :>Toshiro handed Otomo Jun off the the Taisa, and they headed off to Toshi Ranbo so she could make her report to the Emperor. :>With that, we were done, and made ready to head back to Ishigaki Mura. :>Naomi and I were both eager to return to our children. :>As I was getting packed a I heard the tent flap open. :>I looked up. :>So... I was now alone in a tent with Bayushi Kentaro.... :>I didn't allow myself to relax, even after I noticed he had left his katana behind. :>He stared at me for a time, taking my measure. :>He nodded at my guarded stance. :>Many subtleties are lost on most Crab, so I thought I would simply be blunt. :>... Your proposal is acceptable. :>You call THAT blunt. :>He sighed. :>And stepped closer. :>He whispered softly. :>Just you, Hida Ishigaki. Your wife and children will not be harmed. :>So long as YOU don't antagonize us any further. :>You understand? :>I nodded. :>So, are you going to find a reason to duel me, or just have some Ninjas jump out of my rice ball when I'm not expecting it? :>A dumbstruck Scorpion is a very rare sight, and as deeply satisfying as you would expect. :>... jump out...? :>He shook his head :>Ninja do not exist, Ishigaki. :>I scoffed. :>Kentaro continued. :>Besides, even if they did, there really is no reason for me to tell you our plans for you. :>He looked me up and down. :>Killing you is hard enough as is... :>He turned to go. :>Scorpion! :>I tossed him a finger of jade. :>He caught it, looked at it, then arched an eyebrow at me. :>There are bloodspeakers everywhere these days. :>When you come for me, make sure it's not a Bloodspeaker giving you your orders. :>He clenched his fist around the jade and left. :>We set out the next day.
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