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Chapter 51: Story Time
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Temujin could also feel it now. The way the conversation was going, it was starting to sound like a ghost story. To make matters worse, it was close to midnight, the wind was howling above deck and the main hold was creaking all over. “You two know we’re going to pass the equator in a few days, right?” “Right.” “Undine sailors have a line-crossing ceremony. Blue Slayers who have already experienced crossing the equator are called Shellbacks or Sons and Daughters of Watatsumi – god of the sea. On the other hand, those who have never or are about to for the first time are called Pollywogs or Slimy Wogs. “The eve of the crossing is called Wog Day. There’s a reversal of roles and the Wogs act out a kind of mutiny against the Shellbacks. They capture, bind and blindfold their superiors. The most daring Wogs also make fun of the Shellbacks by cracking eggs on their heads or hitting them with either a Suigekiken (Water Blast Attack) or a Touketsujutsu (Freezing Technique).” Aki thought
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Temujin and Aki stayed quiet, signaling Sasha to go on. “I had my fair share of beatdowns,” Sasha confessed, “of being dunked in the toilet, of being the Wog.” His voice had taken on an edge as though it grieved him to relive these things but they had to be said. Aki looked sympathetically at Sasha. If she had only known. She was Sasha’s best friend when she was six and he seven. She should’ve been there for him. Having indeed led the isolated yet sheltered life of a princess, she could only imagine how alone he had felt after the memory wipe. Temujin, on the other hand, finally understood Sasha. He could never have known that behind such a charmed-life, apple-of-my-eye image dwelt rough experiences. “Why didn’t you tell the principal or your teachers?” Aki asked. “The same reason I couldn’t tell my brothers, sisters or parents,” Sasha answered. “There’s an unspoken code of secrecy among blue Slayers. I didn’t want to be called a snitch. That was even worse than being a Wog.” A l
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Aki and Temujin were both quiet. They wanted to commiserate with Sasha but they didn’t know what words to say. “I’m very sorry to hear this,” Aki attempted. “I wish I…” “It’s all right. It’s all in the past. And it was my fault for playing the fool and believing that I could be loved by an Ice-nin.” “No, it’s not your fault,” Aki insisted. “What they did to you was wrong in so many ways. And I wished my clan hadn’t done the Memory Wipe Spell on both of us and I could’ve been there for you as your friend. I’m sorry for all that. I truly am.” “I guess…” Sasha said, flattered that the future empress of the Gold Lotus Throne would say such words to him. “At first, it disturbed me that some Slayers could be so evil but as I stood completely frozen in the Touketsujutsu, the thought of all the teasing afterwards made me entertain the thought of never coming back to school. Ever. After that, I knew the shame was something I could never live down.” “I can’t imagine how you could’ve ha
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“The door creaked open,” Sasha narrated to his petrified audience. “There was no one there, at least no one immediately outside. I buttonhooked to my left and looked to the middle of the bathroom. There was the Ayakashi floating in all her spectral glory. I felt the hair stand up on the back of my neck. The legends were true. She did look like someone who was eternally trapped in a dark, watery grave, clumps of her long hair waving like octopus tentacles. Because she had her head bowed and her neck bent in an odd, impossible angle, she was looking at me from the top of her eyes. She was smirking so her tiny face looked very malicious. I knew then and there this was no prank Lorelei or any student could ever arrange. “‘H-Hello there,’ I greeted in a small, cracked voice. I was forcing my mouth to say something, anything. “‘My name’s Sasha Babor and I’m a student here… in W-Wani-ryu. Just like you were. F-from what I heard.’ Instinctively, I was treating the ghost the way I would a
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Dragon-kissed Chapter 59: The Maw
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