AOMR 8
Just minutes ago, everything around him had been cold and desolate. Icebergs stretched as far as the eye could see, and the very air was harsh, biting with every breath. The wind was so cold, stron...
2024-08-27 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Just minutes ago, everything around him had been cold and desolate. Icebergs stretched as far as the eye could see, and the very air was harsh, biting with every breath. The wind was so cold, stron...
2024-08-27 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you think?” Jiki asked her without turning to face the much shorter girl.
“It’s lively and… bright.” He noted the faraway tone of her voice and finally turned with a rais...
2024-08-24 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was strange the kind of thing one could get used to. It had taken weeks and more importantly, a lack of any true alternatives, but he had begun to acquire a taste for the reishi-lacking tea. Th...
2024-08-21 23:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostContrary to the somber mood that hung heavily over the gathered mourners, the sun was bright and the sky was clear. The serenity of the day felt like a cruel joke, a stark contrast to the sorrow th...
2024-08-16 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence that came with that revelation stretched for so long that it turned what had begun as a weird atmosphere into an uncomfortable one. Emi held her breath and stared at the four-eyed creat...
2024-08-09 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostA holiday.
After the past couple of days, it was one he didn't mind and one he actively enjoyed. Jiki soaked in the tub of warm water, hovering on the capacious edge between bliss and unconsc...
2024-08-02 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThey sat around a round wooden table. How Toji had managed to find a traditional sake bar open this late, and how Emi convinced the owner to let them in despite their injuries, blood, and dust, as ...
2024-07-26 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMegumi spent longer than he should have staring at the hole in the wall where his reluctant father and the Gojo scion had torn their way through. His opponent had not made that same mistake. If Toj...
2024-07-19 16:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostHe could swear that the woman was a fraud. He observed her, even as he stood in the corner of the room, his attention fixed on her like an eagle watching its prey. She reminded him too much of his ...
2024-07-12 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a surprisingly simple thing to alter the world, or, more significantly, to overturn someone's life. A stone shifted here, a pebble moved there—rolling down a mountainside, these seemingly ...
2024-07-11 21:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostBefore him stood a towering demon, its pasty pale skin was stretched taut over its massive seven-foot frame that loomed ominously. The demon was draped in a threadbare kimono, its tattered edges sw...
2024-07-05 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“An inserts dilemma” in a couple of hours then back to regular Cursed eyes posting next week with a double chapter post.
2024-07-05 10:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostI walked.
I didn’t know where to, and neither did I truly care to be honest. I couldn’t imagine a life where I was forced to eat another, so I simply walked. With any luck, the sun...
2024-06-28 20:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostSilky black locks drifted past my brows and fell over my eyes and I found myself automatically slicking it back as I continued to observe my features.
My new features shouldn't have ca...
2024-06-28 20:39:24 +0000 UTC View PostHe felt something stare into him once more. Something better left forgotten, its metaphysical gaze fell upon him, with an intense scrutiny that seemed to strip away layers of his being. Muscle, bon...
2024-06-21 21:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo I’ve finalized the outline for the ending of this arc (next chapter. With an epilogue.) and I’m working on the beginning of the next.
Going to need at least a week to work that out co...
2024-06-17 16:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostHe could feel the stinging of his many wounds, shallow cuts and scrapes though they might’ve been. But they stung all the same.
Reinforcement was a good substitute for when an attack could ...
2024-06-14 21:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe world shudders as something slips through the cracks.
His first year of life was a confusing mess of still-forming neurons, brain cells, and synapses tryi...
2024-06-11 12:45:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Jiki-san” a rough voice called out from behind him, and even without turning his head, he could tell who it was. Utake Gojo. The leader of the exorcism squad deployed by the Gojo’s to help c...
2024-06-07 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI took my first breath, and it sent wet dirt and clumps of soil up my throat. I’d never woken up so fast in my life.
Shoving myself off the floor, I tried to snort out the mixture of wet so...
2024-06-06 00:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostAlright guys, not so good news but one I have to share anyway as a heads up if nothing else.
I might not be able to meet up to my weekly quota (This week’s chapter) of CE due to som...
2024-05-29 21:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Domain Expansion: Coffin of the Iron Mountain”
The barrier started as a black dot in the sky, one that quickly spread out from its center point above the cast...
2024-05-24 21:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Do you know how I came across such a curse?" he asked casually as he ducked underneath a five-fingered sideway slash by Rika—one that should have sent his guts spilling.
The new queen of c...
2024-05-17 20:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostCurses were boring things, creatures of brute strength and very rarely, animal cunning.
He slipped past an armor-clad blow, spun behind the humanoid figure, and grabbed onto th...
2024-05-10 17:24:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Let me at the strongest.”
Satoru-sensei looked down at her with a raised brow. Times like this, it couldn’t be clearer that he had picked up on some of Jiki’s mannerisms. Or was it t...
2024-05-03 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHe walked up to the black-clad man and stopped directly in front of him, considering his options.
It was a stretch to say he was averse to killing the man, as noble a warr...
2024-04-30 16:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 24th, 2017
It was late in the afternoon, with the sun blazing down fiercely, and Jiki sat beneath his favorite tree. It had grown to be one of his favorite places over the p...
2024-04-26 16:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Will you walk with me?” the man asked cordially. A request instead of a command, not a tone Jiki would have expected with one with so much power. Before Jiki could form a response, Shoko repli...
2024-04-19 16:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post