Legend of the Five Rings: 2020 Collected Stories by Compiled by Fantasy Flight

Author:Compiled by Fantasy Flight [Kreines, Compiled by J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“It would be a mercy,” Yori reminded him. “It is what I’ve been teaching you all this time. How can you be worthy of the Kuni’s secrets if you will not do what is necessary to obtain them?”

They stood still, the entire world turning around them.

“What happens now?” the Asako woman asked, the nezumi hovering protectively beside her. She wasn’t a mahō-tsukai, as he had suspected. A ratling would never stand with one who was Tainted.

“I am grateful to you, Asako-san. I might have turned fully in my sleep. Instead, you ensured that I would be cast into the light.”

“You didn’t answer me.” Her guard was still up. Wise.

He looked to Tadaka. “We have one last thing we must do. And we must do it while I am still in control of myself.”

“I will watch him,” Tadaka affirmed, “and guard him. When he goes too far, I will...”

He faltered. Regathered his strength. “I will make sure it is quick.”

There was stone in his voice, then. Yori could sense his conviction, his resolve. Yet all Yori could think of was the useless deference of the Isawa, a man who attributed such sacredness to the ordinary object, who worshipped his tools. Would Tadaka truly have the resolve to do it, when the time came?

Tsuki closed her eyes. “We will.” She regarded Tadaka with that determined face. “Honored Master, my champion ordered me to bring you home. To return without you would be a disgrace that would shame my family. I cannot do that. So I will remain by your side until the deed is done, whatever it may be.”

Tadaka looked as though he would protest, but then said, “Are you certain?”

She nodded.

“Then I am going, too,” the nezumi said, drawing a stare from the Elemental Master.

Yori didn’t protest. He was in no position to, anymore. What a strange gathering they had become.

And deep inside, he knew that the strangest was yet to come.

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