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I don’t want you to make the mistake of assuming you can rely on the Empire to support your community through this time. I’ve been around enough to know that you will be disappointed.”
“Yes, sir. I apologize.” Takeru said, placing himself between Misaki and the colonel.
Im trying hard not to smile...like he sucks so bad it has to be too late
“It gave its maker and wielder to earn it. That is Mamoriken,” he nodded to the sword, “the Protector.”
I called that shit, his name is literally Mamoru
“Your behavior has been disgraceful. You will rest here in silence until you are able to conduct yourself in a respectable manner.
FUCKKKK YOU
“Your ladyship couldn’t sleep?” “Your lordship can’t mind his own business?”
Love these siblings
I know it’s not my place, but I will protect you if you need it.”
Tou-sama and Kaa-san are so wise and good; I trusted in their judgment, and in the end, they were right about her.”
Redepmtion arc for takeru?
‘Misaki is stronger and more skilled than most men. She won’t respect a weak man.’”
She kept her eyes open and watched Mamoru burn. It was the only defiance she could afford.
the Emperor was more of a tyrant than a loving father.
I knew our government wasn’t transparent—What government is?—but
Misaki was so indignant that she could only stare at him.
Gen z stare because who do you think you are talking to
“Five people were here in the house with me when the Ranganese broke down the doors, and all of them are with us now.”
LET HIM KNOW
As much as Mamoru was Takeru’s, he was mine. He was mine!”
curl up here with her sister-in-law and children, and sleep soundly, surrounded by love.
Then his eyes fell on his opponent. “You?” Misaki stood
Oh hell yeah
“You lost your right to my obedience when you stopped being a man!”
IM SO PROUD I COULD CRY
it hadn’t been anger in his eyes but panic.
I mean this so earnestly, FUCK this misinterpretation bullshit
a woman of lightning sinew and roaring blood.
Flayed and boneless, he faced the creature he had awakened, this woman of gods’ blood and fury.
Takeru was forced to realize that he had spent fifteen years sleeping obliviously next to a combatant very nearly his equal in skill.
Mamoru hadn’t inherited his strength from his father. It had come from her.
she smiled—a raw, open smile, and it was the most beautiful thing in all the Duna.
OH BROTHER. NOW YOU LIKE HER??
“No, I’ve seen women with swords before,” Chul-hee clarified,
Period Let him know
Terrified that something had made her start hallucinating,
HER OLD FRIEND
Instead, she lifted a hand and poked a finger into Misaki’s cheek—into her dimple. “Welcome back, pretty girl.”
“You think I killed your children,” Misaki said, “like your father always said.” “I think you saved my wife,” Takeru said.
Yooooo
“I like a bit of fighting. It’s silence I can’t stand.” “Then I am the worst husband in Kaigen.”
“Shall I get my niece?” It was what Setsuko had started calling Siradenyaa,
SETSUKO THE GOAT
the Emperor’s troops didn’t protect this province,” Takeru said. “We did.”
A dragon knew when he was looking at worms and snakes.
no one could forget what had happened on the Sword of Kaigen.
No matter what he grew into, she was excited to see it. This time she wouldn’t miss a moment of it.
“this is Auntie Misaki.”
DAWG
“My Mamoru was the same when he was your age.”
*soft sobbing*
a person’s tragedy doesn’t define them or cancel all the good in their life.
Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it.
You might have twenty years with him. You might only have two. If you waste that time, if you miss it, then when it ends, you’re going to feel like the biggest idiot who ever lived.”
