Life of a Court Lady Page #4

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right now I have no feelings

but to throw myself to you.

I beg of you.

Listen!

Please listen.

Ever since I defamed the mystery of

enlightenment at age seven,

I started my days of penance bythe fire altar,

there I prayed for the eternal prosperity

of the empirical court.

and further more

I prayed for the mercy of all living creatures.

Since I first laid eyes on you a demon

inside me has made an obsession,

I long for you in the night

and even before my sleeves are dry from

the tears as I open the sutras,

I see you smiling at me from the sacred letters,

and beckoning me from the smoke of incense.

Since I shaved my head

and adorned these black robes,

I'd never imagined I would spend

the night with a such a woman,

Oh, the demon in me.

From the eight ancestors of the Shingen sects l

pray and give my offerings,

and from the Sun Goddess to the myriad of

Gods of Shouhachiman shrine

I pray and give my offerings,

so now either I must terminate this love,

or you realize this love for me,

please choose tonight.

choose from your heart.

I beg you.

Sir Ajari,

please show mercy.

I don't matter.

As long as I am with you

whether I become a salted crab on

the coves where the wind is rough,

with my skin burned bythe sun

or become a hermit

up in the mountains, far from civilization

where bandits come by, I will be fi ne,

as long as I can spend it with you

and our child, I am fine with that.

I have no regrets

to the three states of existence,

my universe is already up in flames.

Even when I am copying the

five most important scripts,

no matter how hard I try

my handwriting starts to look like Shijo's.

I wrote this prayer

by mimicking your handwriting.

When I am reincarnated

I hope that I will be able to be with you again.

I know this obsession I have is very shallow.

You would do such things for me?

When I pass away

I plan to use this scroll of prayer

as part of the fire for my cremation,

and with the smoke that rises from the pyre,

I will be around you forever.

Sir Ajari

Why do say such terrible things?

On the days I can not see you,

I will adorn this robe we exchanged

and pray that we will be born into the same rank

The baby that was born between them

was secretlytaken into its rightful house

by the Lord's messenger.

The baby that was born

between the high ranking priest and a maiden

was secretly taken care of

as the Lord disliked gossip of any sort.

The mongoloids second invasion

was met with another storm of winds,

shipwrecks, defeat,

the arrival of the holly tree

of Kasuga into Kyoto,

chaos and unrest,

Bakufu instigates a draft to prevent the arrival

of Mongols by Yamato Yamashiro

prevalent epidemics

Lord

What is it?

How is my child with Sir Ajari being raised?

I apologize.

Sleepless nights with my breasts fi lled with milk

makes me wonder about my unfortunate child.

You think it unfortunate?

You think raising the child you had

with Ajari by your side

will only bring happiness to the child

Well...

Regardless, to at least have one look

It seems like my half brother has implanted

you with his rough nature.

That child is being raised by the appropriate

family by an appropriate person.

You should feel at ease.

Would a child not seek their

true mother and father?

I see you as you are!

A child always goes a different

path from their parents.

Shijo, you listen now.

When I was a child,

my father never thought anything of me

I see,

in the end, I'm still a son to him.

But my father who was an emperor fell out of

love with me from when I was very young.

When I was three I was sat in the emperor's

throne

and when I was only 1 6 the throne was taken

from me and given to my younger brother.

My rank as a retired emperor is only in name

and for the past 20 years I have done nothing

while my father was getting used.

In me, the blood of a poetry and music

runs deep, but not of a politics.

My father noticed this and thought of me as a

threat.

But look now,

our politics are in the hands of those in Kanto.

Tokimune who was taught by the monks

disdained the mongoloids and has been doing a

lot of work.

And what has the capital done.

My younger brother did nothing but go to lse to

praywhile the country faced this turmoil.

I never thought of trying to be like my father.

And my father never even cared for me.

It seems the disease that has spread from the

capital shows no signs of subsiding.

It does seem to be spreading.

I've heard that it is rare for a family

to not have had a death already.

And in order to avoid the illness

people have locked themselves up

and the streets show no sign of people.

I'm sure Sir Ajari is busy with his prayers

Sir AJ ARl has...!

There now, stop crying and

tell me what happened.

Three days ago

he was hit by a high fever and collapsed

and just now...

he passed away

How dreadful...

I was told to bring this to Ms. Shijo

Right before he passed away

though it caused him great pain, he got up to

adorned the gown that he had from Ms. Shijo.

His fi nal words to me before he died,

were that I should leave the gown on him

so that he could be cremated with it.

Mei

The princess has gotten used

to traveling, haven't you?

Mei, there is no princess here.

I've told you many times

but you still say that.

We are now nuns...

Yes, yes

Anyway, my stomach has been

hurting for a while.

I wonder what it is

Hm... and your face is pale,

maybe it's because we have been

walking the whole day.

See Princess, I told you so

we should take a break

but you insisted we arrive

at ltsuku island before sunset

Princess!

I am terrible sorry.

My body just suddenly...

Don't worry. Women carry a Tying karma,

we need to help each other.

It must've hurt a lot

Karma?

You had the child of Sir Ajari in your stomach

You had not fully realized yourself yet

So you had a miscarriage

A nun with Sir Ajari, huh? I guess the paths of

women and men are not all that different

You had some unusual customers before me

Oh, it's you

You were talking about that monk with red eyes,

but now you have nuns too!

Don't be stupid.

They were having a hard time

so I let them rest here a while

Just wait a bit.

It seems the lady next door is out.

Go over there and wait,

we'll use that place

The red eyed monk,

that man was just speaking of him,

but could it be a dancing monk?

You're very observant,

That's right.

He has a red line that goes through his eyes.

He tells us that as long as we

chant the Lords name,

even poor women like myself

or crooks can be held by God.

He says it's not that complicated.

He is a very thankful man,

and many other prostitutes have

stuck by his side.

I stayed here but, I mean, I do like men!

And its hard to stop when what you like

is also your source of money.

Now get as much rest as you need

So crude

What a noble person

Until now it seems I spent my life not

understanding and not doing anything

My deceased father said that

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