“Ugh, come on, skipping to the last level of a dungeon is cheating! Can’t we just try to speed run it!?” Haruhi complained as soon as she was informed of Kazuma’s teleport destination.
“We can level grind some time when the world isn’t in danger from the Devil Queen,” Kazuma said with a shake of his head.
“No, I agree! We should find another solution. I do not like t...
2023-07-13 16:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been fifty five years since the end of the Sino-Japanese War, or World War II as the Westerners called it. Shen Yu was too young to remember that war, but he’d stories from his grandfather who did. The loss of face and humiliation, that the Middle Kingdom, once the greatest of Earth’s nations had been brought low by a former tributary state had been borne for far too long.
Look...
2023-07-10 21:08:46 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to all of you for your support! I really appreciate it, and it's helped me get through a tough time.
Sometimes, especially at night, Ami was still sad. She knew her parents were dead, and she had gone to the shrine near the Thunder Sakura tree to put up pictures of them and burn some incense in their memory. Murasaki had lit the sticks for her, and she’d said a pra...
2023-07-06 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCommissioned by Stormed
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The raft ride was rather awkward, but mercifully rather short, as after only a few minutes they arrived at the other side of the broad river, where Titus and Mel dragged themselves ashore.
“I’m Lyra, by the way, thanks for asking,” the girl said as she picked up her exhaust...
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Glancing outside his office window, Prime Minister Nakamura frowned. Once again, the sky was cloudy, and thunder rumbled faintly. It did not appear natural, as usual, with an odd purple tinge to flickering light. This time of year, it should have been clearer, with t...
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Imperatrix Umbrosa 3: Confessions of an Outlander
Holding her breath, Ami tried to be as still as possible. Her mother’s sobbing breaths could still be heard, and the grunts of the villain just outside the closet door. She couldn’t hear her father anymore. Hadn’t for several minutes. She clutched her to her chest, her ...
2023-06-30 17:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs the hall descended into panic and bedlam even as the professors ushered everyone out, Megumin grabbed onto Ron and Darkness’ robes.
“Ronald. Darkness. We must speak,” she growled, her eyes glowing a baleful red, visible even through the magical darkness.
“You don’t have to say a thing,” Ron growled. “That was my little sister the snake took!”
“Well, don’...
2023-06-29 18:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostIf Itsuki hadn’t knownknow better, he would have called the fact that the big dramatic final battle was to take place at North High ironicy. Instead, he decided it was simply thematically appropriate. He wasn’t sure what an actually ironic location would be, but the pedandant within him wouldn’t let him call this situation that. Even if it was the sort of weird logic that Haruhi would hav...
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The party was over, and Kazuma had half nursed a hope that Darkness would meet him back in her lavish bedroom for his agreed upon reward. Or at least some heavy petting.
But no. They were in that stupid command bunker again.
“We’re already getting reports from across the system. Attac...
2023-06-25 18:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostCommissioned by Shaderic
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The party was over, and Kazuma had half nursed a hope that Darkness would meet him back in her lavish bedroom for his agreed upon reward. Or at least some heavy petting.
But no. They were in that stupid command bunker again.
“We’re already getting reports from across the system. Attac...
2023-06-25 18:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostSasaki stood up, feeling bile in her throat. She was angry, scared, worried, and most of all, she just wanted to go home. She stepped up beside the grandmother she’d never met, and swallowed. “Alright, Komekko. What’s this deal?”
She felt a firm hand on her shoulder, and she didn’t even have to look to know it was her father.
“What are you doing? She’s a demon, we can...
2023-06-19 00:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the destruction of all their ordinance, the rest of the mission’s supplies were untouched, and Titus loaded up a backpack with various survival gear. The hatchets in their survival kits were apparently fine, as were a flare gun and all their comms gear.
“How long do you expect us to be on our own?” Titus asked Jack, adjusting his pack. To his surprise, Mel came over and doub...
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“Why do I have to carry you through the swamp!?” Kazuma complained as he batted a slimy bit of vine out of his face. “No one else has to carry you!”
“B-but I have to carry Megumin,” Yunyun pointed out, Megumin drooling slightly on her shoulder as she snored.
Yoda’s...
2023-06-14 07:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostCommissioned by Stormed
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The deck shuddered as alarm claxons sounded, and warning lights flashed. Titus swore loudly, his boots pounding along as he looked over at Jack, fury in his eyes.
“It’ll be an easy mission, you said. Piece of cake, you said. Right up your alley, you said.”
“In my defense, the actua...
2023-06-08 04:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post“So when’s the parade?”
Darkness paused in getting down from her mecha, and turned to look at Kazuma. He was standing just below her, having already clambered out of the Laggan. She still looked a bit rumpled, and her mecha had plenty of scouring and blast marks on it. Though it didn’t actually seem to have been damaged at all.
“Parade?” Darkness asked, frowning.
...
2023-06-05 06:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostI've avoided writing this because it's uncomfortable to talk about, but let's start with the good news:
I went to a long COVID clinic at the big state hospital on Oahu, and met with specialists in the disease. They talked with me about my symptoms and presentation, conducted a lot of tests, and gave me several new medications. The outlook is good.
However, that's long term. Short te...
2023-06-03 20:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostPractically vibrating with excitement, Haruhi peered through the foliage to the camp beyond. The campsite itself was shoddy, with rotting leather tents, patched blankets, rusted cookware and weapons, and crude wooden stakes circling it in a low palisade, with the skulls of animals, monsters, and even humans adorning various tatty banners or totems. The occupants of the campsite were little gree...
2023-05-31 17:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostHaving spent most of his life on a desert planet, Kazuma had grown up with a reverence for water. It was a precious, valuable commodity, something that his family’s entire livelihood was based around. Last he’d checked (which was to say the day he’d left) his Uncle and Aunt had still spent all day every day squeezing every last drop of moisture out of the inhospitable Tatooine atmosphere....
2023-05-25 07:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe rolling hills and scraggy brush plodded by, and Titus rubbed at his face. He wasn’t exactly sleepy, it was midmorning after all, but he also had the soldier’s knack for sleeping whenever he could. That would be foolish here: the wilderness was famous for its many hazards, and there could be anything from bandits, to greenskins, to more mutants waiting just over a rocky ridge and looking...
2023-05-21 02:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t take much more!”
“Just loosen up, it’ll be over soon!“
“I-I can’t, I’ve never done it like this before!”
“Yes you can, stop whining!”
“But I’m the one who’s supposed to take the lead! I can’t just lay here and take it from you!”
“Argh! It’s so stiff though, did you even use any lube?!”
“Oooooo~”
Kazum...
2023-05-17 02:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe we’re actually doing this!” Haruhi said, her cheeks flushed and rosy, a huge grin on her face. She was dressed in her leather jerkin and skirt, yellow ribbons in her hair, SOS Brigade Chief armband at the ready. A katana rode at her hip and she had her stomping boots on.
“I can’t believe we’re doing this,” Kyon sighed, rubbing his face with his hand, a hea...
2023-05-12 04:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe heavy pounding on Kazuma’s door at precisely the crack of dawn caused him to put a pillow over his head and snarl something profane, while Kyon moaned and rubbed his face in the bed next to Kazuma.
“Dammit Haruhi, what time is it even?”
“Time waits for no man, Kyon!” the eternally annoying and chipper voice of the nascent goddess declared, slightly muffled by the thick...
2023-05-09 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs some of you probably already know, my health has been very poor over the past few months, and has taken a turn for the worse over the past few weeks. This had led to me not being able to meet all my writing goals for April, including one still undelivered chapter for a patreon, and no new discord chapter. I will be posting the audio recording of Melancholy soon, but I don't know that I will ...
2023-05-01 01:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostAqua had never been very good at hating the undead. Oh, sure, she cleansed them and purged them along with the rest of the other gods and goddesses, but Eris had always been the real crusader between them, her passion burning with holy fervor to wipe out every single one of the unholy abominations and send them back to the afterlife where they belong, their bodies returned to rest.
But Aq...
2023-05-01 01:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few nights on the boat, Titus slept soundly, the gentle rocking and sounds of the creaking ship about him did more to soothe him to sleep than turn his stomach. On the cot next to his, Freya slept as well, her own breathing far softer and gentler than the loud snores of the men he’d had to share his quarters with over the years. While he didn’t quite not have a care in the world, th...
2023-04-20 03:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a dark and stormy night. High atop her tower, the mighty sorceress and her minions concocted a powerful potion, muttering an incantation as she prepared to summon a mighty demon, to lay waste to her foes and-
“M-Megumin, what are you doing? Why are you writing that it’s dark and stormy? It’s a nice day, w-we should have our contest outside today.”
Megumin loo...
2023-04-11 02:47:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe ground shook, and thunder sounded as an army advanced into an abattoir. Feeling sick, Sasaki watched as endless ranks of automatons marched into a series of death traps, from collapsing walls, to giant golems that crushed them, to pit traps that sent them plummeting, to all manner of destruction raining down.
“This is dumb. Who cares if a bunch of golems get blown up?” Komekko com...
2023-04-08 21:07:50 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the horrified servants kicked them out of the dining room to clean up the mess, the group meandered down to the command center. Much to Kazuma’s disgust, Mitsurugi was already there, and in a freshly laundered uniform to boot.
“Ah, Lady Lalatina, we were just discussing plans for the upcoming battle. Please, join us,” Mitsurugi said, bowing deeply.
“You don’t need an...
2023-04-06 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSince we had a tie, we'll have a runnoff poll today. I'll cast a vote in case of a tie.
2023-04-04 18:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post