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    "The timing is auspicious as well- a great victory took place at this time, changing the seats of the Luofu. General Jing Yuan, surely you remember when you slew the mara-struck Sword Champion? Is there any better way to celebrate than to put another official to the test?"

    "So, in summary, forgive me for being so crass, but let's make it simple- Yanqing, your position is up for grabs in the next martial competition!"

    After Yanqing's consecutive failures to serve the Xianzhou, it's made clear that his place by the General isn't guaranteed at all— he has to fight for his right to stay Lieutenant and to remain by Jing Yuan's side. The cost of failure? Being kicked out from Jing Yuan's home and being demoted to Private: destroying every sacrifice he's made for this role.

    To make it worse, there's more behind the competition than meets the eye, and it has to do with the fact that Jing Yuan is given the unfortunate ability to read Yanqing's mind.

    OR: Jing Yuan and Yanqing know exactly where they stand with each other, but hope blurs the line.

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    27 Apr 2025

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    “Minus two points.” He ignored Clara’s sputtering. “A less stupid question would be, ‘How was a sophisticated robot like Svarog subdued long enough for his core to be removed?’”

    Clara couldn’t believe her ears. “I thought that there’s no such thing as a stupid question!”

    Dr. Ratio gave a long and weary sigh. One of his hands came up to rub at his temple. “A common and repulsive misconception. There is a stark difference between a thought-out question asked by someone in an honest endeavor to cure their own ignorance, and an irrelevant question that wastes everyone’s time and could easily be answered should the asker undertake the arduous chore of exercising their brain.”

    Mr. Svarog returns to the settlement with a gaping hole in his chest and a missing core before collapsing, still as a rock. Clara has no choice but to team up with the acerbic researcher sent by the Intelligensia Guild to track it down and save her robot father.

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    09 May 2025

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    "You wake up, you have memories, but they don't feel like your own. Your emotions are all over the place, yet your mind is younger than the body you occupy, as though time hadn't progressed at all over the past ten years. The daughter you once cradled in your arms now leads your nation. The woman you once loved wants nothing to do with you. You close your eyes, you float through everything that's happened as if in a dream. You can't believe that was you."

    "How do you know this?" Cocolia whispers, and she is terrified.

    or, that one universe where Cocolia lives.

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    17 Jun 2024

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    Being part of the Cloud Knights for as long as he has, he’s watched comrades tear themselves apart for scraps of reprieve, heard tell of jaded immortals who reveled in their own destruction just to feel something, experimented with several unsavory coping mechanisms himself. But nowadays, Jing Yuan has various outlets outside of work and war: meditation, Mimi, his garden.

    What does Yanqing have other than blades?

    With the Stellaron Crisis still unfolding and the general out of commission, work has never been so hectic aboard the Luofu. Stress takes its toll upon Yanqing in a way that Jing Yuan never expects.

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    18 Jun 2024

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    “Fushiguro,” Itadori’s voice pulls him from his thoughts. He glances to his right and locks eyes with the other boy as he tugs the blanket draped over his shoulders closer. They’re sat together on the grass outside their dorms having snuck out long after curfew.

    “What do you want to do after you graduate?”
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    08 Apr 2024