Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 1 Prompt: Clumsy
After retiring from court duties, Minamoto no Yorimitsu started collecting hobbies.
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- Part 1 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 2 Prompt: Grass
A tap on his shoulder.
“There’s grass in your hair.”
Onikiri turned. The errant hand paused in the air. He took a step back before it could reach him.
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- Part 2 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 3 Prompt: Heavenly
Then it occurred to him.
“I’d better rescue Yorimitsu,” he declared, and climbed back up the spiralling stairs.
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- Part 3 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 4 Prompt: Battle
All through the winter, they trained for battle.
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- Part 4 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 5 Prompt: Guarded
“So what’s your name?” The human asked, nonchalant.
He checked the roasting fish, and sighed, “you know I’m not going to tell you.”
“I can’t just keep calling you, ‘Yokai’. It’s not polite.”
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- Part 5 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 6 Prompt: Music
Something the biwa said to him had refused to go away, and it wormed itself into his words now.
“She said that it’s pointless to speak with me, for I don’t even know what it’s like to be held as she had been by her master.”
“Well, you’re not a biwa.” Yorimitsu nodded, “and I am not her master, but,”
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- Part 6 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 7 Prompt: Time
He rummaged in his mind, and discovered that at some point in time, he had also lost the habit of counting time itself, another one among the many things that he carelessly misplaced, shedded like wings of water flies after their last dance.
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- Part 7 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 8 Prompt: Salt
It was Kohaku who found out about his secret.
“Why are you adding salt to your wine?” The fox spirit finally asked one day, catching Onikiri surreptitiously sneaking a sprinkle into his cup.
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- Part 8 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 9 Prompt: Swim
“It appears he is finally dead, and has arrived at the famed underworld. “
Where Onikiri attempts to swim across the Sanzu River. With Yorimitsu.
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- Part 9 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 10 Prompt: Wood
(Read the first part in prompt 6: Music. )
“I know what it is like now,” he confessed.
The biwa spirit busied herself picking at a loose thread on her belt. He imagined that she was listening with a keen ear.Series
- Part 10 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 11 Prompt: Eyes
He does not need a left eye, if it must bear the mark of Minamoto no Yorimitsu.
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- Part 11 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 12 Prompt: Blade
Minamoto no Yorimitsu stood up from the table, stretched, and looked out towards the courtyard.
Swoosh, went the sound of a sword slicing through the air.
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- Part 12 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 13 Prompt: Dirty
“You despicable piece of…”Onikiri rushed to cut him off, only to stumble in the want of a sufficiently venomous curse. His vocabulary had yet to catch up with his recent progression in world view.
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I am rating this M chiefly for language.
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- Part 13 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 14 Prompt: Cape
They found a cape in the forest one day.
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- Part 14 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 15 Prompt: Forest
The visitor came to him cloaked in the silence of the night. As he crossed the threshold, Onikiri looked up from the fire, and tasted the frosty chill of winter in his footsteps.
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To be read together with “Cape” and “Find”.
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- Part 15 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 16 Prompt: Find
He found his cape in the forest, on the shoulders of a peasant child.
To be read with prompt 14 and 15
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- Part 16 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 17 Prompt: Run
“I’m sick of your stupid, naive face,” it spat into the dirt. “Do you know what will happen?”
“You’ll meet him.”
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Where the young yokai that had wandered into Ooe was met by a grand old yokai.
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- Part 17 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 18 Prompt: Surprise
The maidservant bringing me lunch is especially cheerful today, which is how I know that Onikiri has returned.
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- Part 18 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 19 Prompt: Bath
He recalled how their first encounter ended in the bathhouse. Their subsequent brawls happened half in rain-drenched forests and half in steam-filled rooms. Fate worked in mysterious ways. It was meant to be then, that he should be given a last chance to return the favour.
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- Part 19 of Onmyojitober 2024
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Onmyojitober 2024 Day 20 Prompt: Ship
In which Onikiri learns about a “ship”
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- Part 20 of Onmyojitober 2024
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