After Murayoshi’s lesson, Lee Jia had been preoccupied with the idea of introspection. Not actual introspection—just the idea of it. It had become a surprisingly important subject of late.
Magus Hwang described the domain of an extension of the self, and understanding it would require one to understand themselves. Since understanding her domain was currently the greatest obst...
2021-03-19 19:23:51 +0000 UTC View PostJia and Eui were headed towards the location indicated on the new schedules, where the first of the new classes was being held. Yan Yue followed along behind them grumpily.
“Do you really plan on learning enchantment from some sa—from a Yamato practitioner? Body cultivators aren’t exactly known for their quality artifacts.”
The class was artifact creation and enchantment, an...
2021-03-17 17:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostLee Jia woke to the familiar warmth of Eui’s healing. It occurred to her—not for the first time—that spiritual healing techniques were extremely convenient, especially paired with the enhanced physique of a martial artist. Still, she almost wished she could have fallen unconscious a bit faster—and stayed that way a bit longer, for that matter—being smashed into the stone was an extrem...
2021-03-15 20:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostLee Jia sat by the fire in her living room meditating—or trying to.
“So how do you plan on convincing Hayakawa to take us up to the mountain?”
Lee Jia eyed Yan Yue and sighed with frustration. She hadn’t expected her new roommate to be so chatty. It might have been tolerable, if not for the fact that it always seemed to be some sort of complaint or criticism.
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2021-03-13 19:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostEui was just as unhappy as the other two about Yan Yue moving in with them, and her grumpiness only increased when they arrived back home to find nearly a dozen suitcases crowding the already tiny living space.
“Who the fuck needs this many clothes?”
Yan Yue grimaced at Eui and crossed her arms petulantly.
“Hmph, as if you would understand proper fashion.”
“I u...
2021-03-11 21:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip back to the academy was uneventful. They had been in a hastily assembled log cabin hidden in a forest outside of the academy walls, and Yan Yue dropped the illusion halfway through the forest, explaining that she didn’t actually care about keeping the location a secret.
By the time they returned, the sun was beginning to rise, and they realized that they had a martial arts clas...
2021-03-09 18:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a little surreal after having a comfortable and civil conversation to go straight back to being bound and blindfolded—though Lee Jia knew she had been the whole time. Yan Yue’s voice was apologetic as she spoke.
“Sorry, girls. You’re going to have to stay there for a little bit.”
Lee Jia couldn’t do more than grunt in affirmation due to the cloth gag in her mouth....
2021-03-07 18:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post“—should never have brought them here!”
Lee Jia stirred awake to the sound of an unfamiliar man shouting. She was still bound, and her domain was still restricted by a formation, but she could sense Eui nearby. Yan Yue’s voice responded, her tone bored despite the man’s apparent ire.
“I couldn’t exactly leave them tied up in my dorm room, someone was bound to find them...
2021-03-05 21:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostHow had they forgotten about Yan? Lee Jia had been worried about Yan Hao when she first saw him, but after Do Hye’s ostentatious presentation and the appearance of Tae In-Su, it had completely slipped her mind. Now, she was painfully aware of the fact that he was almost certainly related to Yan Zhihao in some way.
Had they come to recover their heirloom artifact? According to Elder Qin,...
2021-03-03 22:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostShe had a name, now—Yoshika had mixed feelings about this. It was a cute name, and she liked it, but it was also a rather silly and thoughtless name—just Eui and Jia put together and read differently. Rika had come up with it to tease Eui about her affection for Jia, and now Yoshika was defined by that. Still, she supposed it was better to have a name than not.
It wasn’t entirely ne...
2021-03-01 21:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostEui paced back and forth restlessly within the tiny living room.
“What the fuck are we supposed to do now?”
“You’re sure we can’t just go with the cave hermit plan?”
Eui let out a frustrated sigh and shook her head at Jia.
“No, as tempting as that is. I think we have to deal with this properly. We’ve worked too hard for what we have to do otherwise.” 2021-02-27 19:38:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As soon as she saw Tae In-Su, Lee Jia immediately hid herself behind Rika.
“Oh shit! Ancestor's ashes! That’s the administrator from my old city.”
Rika looked back over her shoulder at Lee Jia and chuckled.
“Why does that matter? Also, should I be mad that I’m the one you chose to hide behind?”
“You’re the tallest one here, ok!? And it matters because I s...
2021-02-25 19:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostShe pads gracefully across a snowy field, leaving no tracks in her wake. The scene is familiar, though the perspective is somehow different. The field is stained red with blood, but there is no traveller—no campfire. Instead, the plain has become a battlefield in which hundreds of creatures fight for supremacy.
The cat turns its head from the battle in contempt—the ...
2021-02-23 17:25:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Mmnng”
Lee Jia groaned as she slowly woke to the sun on her face, her stomach growling, and something soft poking her in the cheek. She opened her eyes a crack and as she slowly adjusted to the light, she saw the figure of a girl staring down at her.
“GAH!”
Lee Jia yelped in fright and half-leapt half-fell over the back of the couch, landing on all fours and ...
2021-01-23 20:15:48 +0000 UTC View PostHwang Sung led Lee Jia into a small building that smelled strongly of ink and paper. Inside, half a dozen people dressed in the same uniform robes bustled around, sorting and filing various papers according to some system that was entirely arcane to Lee Jia. Two men sat at a desk at the front, one slouched lazily looking extremely bored and the other had the rigidly straight posture and serious...
2021-01-23 19:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostLee Jia shivered as a gust of wind blew past. Fallen leaves scattered across the road, Autumn was in full swing and the air was getting painfully cold. She knew she wasn’t prepared for the winter. She had overstayed her welcome in Nayeong city and the locals had gotten wise to her tricks. Laundry was hung higher out of reach and rarely left unattended—and every eye was on her as she tried t...
2021-01-21 22:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post