“What is it?” she asks, finally at the bottom of the stairs. “You’re looking at me weirdly.”
“Ah, no, sorry. I was just thinking. Didn’t mean to stare.”
“No worries, I wasn’t…” She pauses. Blink, blink. She breaks into a smile. ...
2024-11-29 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter some time, I decide to bring her up to the bed I’d occupied only an hour or so earlier. Now that I think about it… What is this place?
I can’t smell the scent of anyone other than Rice, save for maybe some lingering traces of people that might have lived he...
2024-11-27 16:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’re wondering where I’ve been—this is where I’ve been! Drawing over 30 pieces for the next release. Hoo, boy! This was a big one… But I think they turned out pretty good! Compared to the first two books, for this one, I’ve really gotten to lean into doing kore greyscale, which i...
2024-10-29 23:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post
You’ll forgive my radio silence if I show off my kittens, won’t you?
2024-10-29 23:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post...Eventually!
With yesterday's chapter, we have now ended the Lust arc, and will soon move swiftly into the next one. When will this be? Unsure! My courses are starting, but with the kind of arc we're moving into now, I have no doubt that I'll be getting to writing within short.
I h...
2024-09-02 18:05:13 +0000 UTC View PostShe smiles back at me with great reluctance. “Ah, that is well… Funny to hearing?”
“Absolutely!” I shout, and without waiting for her to raise me, I leap up and throw my arms around her. “Thank you—thank you—thank you! Oh, Rice, you really are a li...
2024-09-01 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostRunning. Bump, bump, bump. Swaying. Then a big jump, a reeling motion, and I’m put atop something else. It moves differently. The back of a sprint-drake, I think. And off we go. Running, running, running, running. I don’t want to. I don’t want to anything anymore.
...
2024-08-31 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo, they come and get me, like they did so long ago. I guess the main difference is that instead of wearing a torn and reddened dress, now, I’m only wearing a pair of plain black pants. It makes their work of putting me in new chains a lot easier, so I feel kind of nice for being helpful and al...
2024-08-30 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days left.
I twiddle my thumbs and toes and grin into the darkness.
The torturer comes to warm me up.
One day left.
I want to pace around my cage, but the chains make it too hard, so I settle for chattering my teeth w...
2024-08-29 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHe was right—it was only the first of many.
Once they had me secure in the very deepest dungeon, they made it a daily mission to get as many on my back as possible. Each one was very small, but they all hurt the same. The one who branded me would change every day, but they al...
2024-08-28 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostStrangely enough, clambering across rooftops, running with the wind in my hair, leaping from building to building… It’s weirdly calming. Of all my experiences, this one makes me feel the most supernaturally powered. I’m like spider-man! But without the net-powers, or any of his other streng...
2024-08-27 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI inch closer to him. “Hey, uh, I—”
He jumps. Turning around, his eyes fall on me, and his expression instantly spoils. “Oh, it’s only you. Um… Could you wait for a moment while I finish writing? I’m kind of in the zone, so…”
&n...
2024-08-26 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s big. It’s exactly as big as I remembered it, and no less boxy.
For one, much like all other big cities I’ve seen so far, it’s surrounded by a thick, nigh-impenetrable wall. Luckily enough, just like I did last time, we entered through the front entrance. I ha...
2024-08-25 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright, so, if we keep this speed up, we should arrive tomorrow. We’ll need to stop by a nearby village, and after that, it’ll take almost ten hours to reach the capital. The village is a few hours away, so we should be there at around eight… But if we want to, we could probably rea...
2024-08-24 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI know it’s a classic thing to say, the goal means nothing; the journey is everything, but after looking at trees and farmland for days upon days, you start to get a bit tired of it. At the very least, Fiir-ette doesn’t mind teaching me more of the language, so by now, I can almost h...
2024-08-23 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNow, it’s just me, and this… city.
Can it really be called a city? Isn’t this just a town?
…On that note, what even is the difference between a city and a town? Eh, I guess it doesn’t matter. It’s just that coming from whateve...
2024-08-22 15:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostAfter our initial greeting, Juuta brought me back to the cabin, where I found his daughter trying to wash my blood off the doorstep. I helped her to clean it—I happen to know a few tricks regarding this specific matter—and then he introduced me to her. Her name was Liiti, and she was somehow ...
2024-08-21 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostA few days later, I decide that enough is enough. It’s time to overcome my fear of people and talk to some strangers!
I’ve rehearsed my script a dozen times in my head now. It’ll be very simple. I am… a normal ordinary human. See? I’m wearing normal ordinary clo...
2024-08-20 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostReaching it took a few days of walking.
I wasn’t in a hurry, so I let myself enjoy the trails I walked. I didn’t exactly go looking for animals, but occasionally, I’d bump into one or another, and with mild curiosity, usually taking care not to let it see me, I’d ...
2024-08-19 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I come to, I’m lying face-up in a meadow. Above me, framed by the gently swaying crowns of the nearby trees, is the blue, blue sky. The sun smiles down at me.
Groaning, I sit up, instinctually bringing a hand to my head only to feel a searing sting of pain, enough ...
2024-08-18 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe world reels around me and the next time I open my eyes, I’m in a boring, plain white room. Hm. I wonder what he was trying to sa—
The God of Pain hugs me.
When I come back out of it, Pain is right in front of me, flapping his hands i...
2024-08-17 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy crossed arms fall to my side. I can feel my face wrinkling up like I ate something sour. I sit up straighter. “You’re bullshitting me.”
“I’m not. You got an A.”
“With—with the other possible grades being a B and an S, right...
2024-08-16 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo, now I’m sitting in a waiting room. Alone. Of course, I’m alone on this difficulty, so I hadn’t exactly expected any different. But it still feels a bit weird. Must be the decor.
I’m not sure why, but for some reason, I can tell that I’m not about to meet with Pain...
2024-08-15 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll be the bank,” the girl who picked the wheelbarrow says—Ida, according to Simon. From the way she’s sitting right next to Lisa, the other girl, and with them both having such Scandinavian names, I’ll assume they’re both from one of the northern countries, and probably in a part...
2024-08-14 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBringing this back babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
2024-08-13 20:34:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhile we keep drinking hot cocoa, one by one, the challengers drop out of the trial. I still can’t remember what the trial was all about, but Hunter seems content, so I’m sure it’s going well. The people who drop out get to recuperate in an armchair of their own, with their personal choice ...
2024-08-13 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“No I didn’t,” I say, purely by reflex. “I’m not… I haven’t—”
He takes another deep whiff, leaning in closer to really get a sense of my scent. “You’re right. You haven’t. At least… not fully.”
“Wh—wha...
2024-08-12 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostUh, that is…
…Sure? Why not? So far, they’ve just been stuck in me, so being able to do something constructive with them doesn’t sound too bad. Though, I’m not sure what assimilation means in this context…
<Attempting assimilation.
... 2024-08-11 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs far as I can tell, the combat trial involves the participants fighting gradually more dangerous opponents, to finally combat each other. Hunter was pretty busy overlooking the matches, and those participants not actively fighting had split into their parties and taken seats on the other side o...
2024-08-10 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“...Should we do something?”
“He’s been staring at you for like ten minutes straight.”
“I—I think he might be blind? It doesn’t feel like he’s exactly looking at me… And that eye is giving me the creeps… Like, seriously, why doe...
2024-08-09 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post