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He just stared at her flatly, completely emotionless. “I don’t need you speaking to me that way,” he said. “Pull yourself together.”
it sounded like they could have benefited from Takeru’s help, but he had been barely involved in the larger rebuilding efforts since returning from his little trip up the mountain.
I do think Takeru is grieving in his own way but I’m still livid w him
“We’re going to duel.” “We will do no such thing,” Takeru said firmly. “A man doesn’t fight his wife.”
“You will not speak to me that way. You are my wife—” “I never wanted to be your wife!” Misaki burst out and found her voice breaking into a scream. “I never wanted any of this!”
Im so proud of her
this is the last time you will be weak in front of me. One of us is going to rest here with our son. Draw!”
“You shouldn’t yell so much.” His voice was suddenly quieter. “It’s not ladylike.”
BRO STOPPPPPP
“I forfeit,” he bowed lower, offering his bare neck to the blade, “and offer my life in atonement.”
:(
Maybe the pain and shame were too much for a small boy to hold, but the mountain… the mountain could bear it all.”
Why am i about to cry
When it is too much to be a man, I am the mountain. I have done this my whole life—when there was a truth I didn’t want to acknowledge, a decision I didn’t want to face, a pain I didn’t want to endure.
“I retreated into the mountain to spare myself the reality of leaving my brother and son without considering the fact that they were born of this mountain too. Their jiya was bound to the same snow, and ice, and moving water as mine. I didn’t realize that, in that state, I would feel them die.”
“I wish I could explain it—My brother was my shelter in all things. His death left me shaken, flayed, like nerve and muscle exposed to the air.”
“Fighting the Ranganese is one thing—it is what I was born to do—but defying the Empire…” Takeru shook his head. “That is beyond my ability. It’s impossible.”
“I can’t take your word that you will accept my help when you have done nothing but disregard my advice and my feelings since I married you,”
Something bigger than myself, she realized. “I’m Matsuda Misaki,” she said with pride and honesty she never attached to those words before. “I’m your wife.” And she attacked him.
I love her i think shes on of my fave fmcs of all time, right up there with Aelin, Manon, and Nesta… i guess i like my girlies angry
she had become a new creature, more fluid and boundless than a girl but more solid than a shadow—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.
He hadn’t wanted to see this beautiful, strange woman crumble the way his mother had. Somehow, he had broken her anyway, but she hadn’t broken quietly like porcelain. She had broken like black glass and ice—jagged and more dangerous than ever.
The irony was that Mamoru had been right—about the Empire, about the Kwangs, about the Ranganese—and Takeru had called him weak.
the tiny woman matched his steps, Takeru was forced to realize that he had spent fifteen years sleeping obliviously next to a combatant very nearly his equal in skill.
This makes me undeniably happy
What sort of a man closed his eyes to the world and called it clarity?
My mans having an epiphany while getting his ass handed to him
“If you don’t want to hurt me, you will face me like a real fighter,” Misaki’s teeth ground together in a snarl, “with respect.”
Honestly how hes not hot for her rn is beyond me
and she was stronger than Takeru. She was breaking him.
“Stop!” He bellowed, his voice no longer commanding. Begging. “Stop! Stop!”
Mamoru hadn’t inherited his strength from his father. It had come from her.
IM GONNA FKING CRY AGAIN
Hold the line, he had said as his son looked at him in fear. And Mamoru had. He had protected Takayubi with everything he had.
a woman who needed her husband, and a man who needed his wife.
Her eyes went wide, and she smiled—Gods in the Deep, she smiled—a raw, open smile, and it was the most beautiful thing in all the Duna.
Takeru stared at the woman he had married and saw her for the first time.
“There were two of you who came down the mountain to look for us, were there not?” Chul-hee shook his head. “I came alone.”
It was mamoru :'(
“That’s no demon.” Misaki was striding toward the fallen creature. “It’s a littigi.”
“A type of sub-theonite,” Misaki explained as she came to stand over the man. “They look like powerless adyns, but they have the ability to manipulate light to create illusions.
but she couldn’t recall ever encountering a green-eyed littigi, let alone one with such strange tattoos. Even the tattoo ink was unlike anything Misaki had ever seen—shiny and metallic.
Takeru, who had most likely never seen a white person, approached more cautiously, Chul-hee trailing just behind him.
Misaki shrugged. “This is the sort of thing I used to do with my friends back in Livingston.” “At school?” Takeru looked confused.
Im lovin this
Her expression of confusion turned to one of shock when Takeru stooped and picked up Nagasa.
WE LOVE TO SEE IT
I will make you the strongest Matsuda who ever lived. Are you ready, Matsuda Hiroshi?”
She will explain how to see through one of these illusions.”
WE LOVE TO SEE HIS BEHVIOR SHIFTING LIKE THIS
“We didn’t talk about it,” Takeru said. “If Takashi or I mentioned it—if we talked about our mother—Tou-sama would beat us.”
“I think,” Takeru said very slowly, “he was not a good father. He was certainly not a good husband.” Misaki looked at Takeru in complete shock.
“I shouldn’t disrespect him. I know, but…” “But?” “He hurt my mother.”
:(
“You’re speaking to me,” Misaki said. “All I wanted then was for you to speak to me, so I wouldn’t be alone.”
This makes me so sad
“You hate it when I touch you,” he said—not an accusation but a simple fact. “You’ve always hated it.” Misaki didn’t try to deny it.
I knew he knew!!
So was she. Nestling closer, she rested her head on his shoulder. He would never have that hot spark that set her desire to a boil, but when she closed her eyes, no nightmares came.
This moment is so beautiful
Misaki had gone over the tajaka greeting gesture with Takeru, convincing him to practice with her until it started to feel natural.
Why are they becomin relationship goals
“Shall I get my niece?” It was what Setsuko had started calling Siradenyaa, since Misaki had explained the little sword’s origins and the name ‘Shadow’s Daughter.’
I LOVE THIS OMGGG
a man was more malleable when his head was swelled with praise.
She felt a grin spread across her face as she realized that they were going to end up arguing.
BRO WHY IS THIS ME
“Why are you smiling?” Takeru looked unsettled. “It’s complicated.” “It’s scary.”
IM DEAD
“Respectfully, General, the Emperor’s troops didn’t protect this province,” Takeru said. “We did.”
She wondered if Takeru was aware that he had never been more attractive.
For fkin reallll
