RumikoOhara

Empty City part II

@Jasper19

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Empty City part II

@Jasper19

Ninja'd

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Empty City part II

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Venus

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>@Jasper19 @Bria The Human

"Wait where are you guys going?" Venus heard a feminine voice call out behind her so she paused then turn on her bike saddle and saw another girl who didn't look like a skeeze but cute and harmless which if she was okay around the Board punks then they must be okay so she relaxed.

"Hello I was telling this boy I think I know the shrine the bell came from and that he could follow me; it reminded me of the Nakashimi Inari Shrine. It has a large ōgane (Hanging bell) which has a deep resonance allowing the sound to carry over great distances; a large bonshō can be heard up to 20 kilometres.

We hear it at the School sometimes and we are maybe 8 kilometers away" Says Venus in a much friendlier and trusting tone to the other girl

"My name is Venus and if you want you can follow me. It might not be quite were I remember seeing it but the mountains over ….. "

Venus trails off as first she see's a light beam descend from the sky and bathe the roof of the shrine as if to say here it is but what she sees next makes her drop her bike and almost fall as she trips over it.

"The sky's all wrong" she says in a shocked half hearted tone

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I had a friend asked me in PMs "Why this isn't in casual but in Free?"

Answer "Any place other than Free is filled wit restrictions and demands"

I want you to have the Freedom that Free has because there's times when you don't have much to post

That said I love what I've been seeing so I and the other Producers have decided to offer you a contract as staff writers "Congratulations"

Empty City part II

Oh if people didn't catch it in Yumi's post the clouds are clearing and the awe inspiring sight of a reversed horizon is now visable

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Venus

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>@Jasper19

"I was surprised to see more people I thought me and a couple of online friends were the only ones." he said to her confirming what she'd been dealing with; a feeling that here she'd find people

"As am I and that bell had an echo so I'd say it came from the Nakashimi Inari Shrine, the ōgane there is a large one and it lays at the base of the mountain ridges giving it an echo" she said as she felt a tingel pass through her that screamed she was right that if they went there they'd find some monk... no no wait a miko. How she knew that it was a miko she couldn't say but she was so sure she mounted her bike and said Follow me."

Empty City part II

@Jasper19

Careful Landon she's one of the Princess from the local all girls prep school known as the Ice Queens and the dream conquest of every boy who dreams he's a player

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Venus

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>@Jasper19

"Hey!" shouts a skate board boy coming towards her.

Venus steps off the bike getting a firm grip on her handlebars prepared to swing the bike at his legs till she realized that could warp a rim so she relaxed a bit and shifted her stance so she could leap back aboard and pedal off at top speed.

"Yes, what do you want?" she answered back not in a shout but in a strong and projecting tone.

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Martha

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>@Sharidi37495

Mar laughed softly before answering "I suppose a bit of both; I dislike questions without answers and for as long as I can remember part of my mind has always come up with questions on every subject you could imagine and another part committed to finding the answers."

Mar motions to her cart "I too engaged in a test of boundaries, I stole all this to see if I would be arrested and because food and feminine products take on great value when they are in limited supply. My next project was to head to the hotel" points to a posh 12 story hotel up the road "and take advantage of my situation and enjoy one of the penthouse suites; I hope they have at least a hot tub with a view as well if not a pool"

"And I am an Otaku Goddess not a Nerd, those would be my Fanboys at con"

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Yumi

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"Kono yō ni, watashi ga Futsu ni tōtatsu shite irai, hijō ni nagai jikan o sugoshite kimashita.
Watashi no jumyō wa hakari shirezu, eien ni tsudzuki, kesshite horobiru koto wa arimasen.
Ī otokoda! Watashi ga katsute no bosatsu-ji o ayunde kita watashi ga ima demo tassei shita jumyō wa, jōki no baidearu tame, tsukiru koto wa arimasen.
Mada ima demo, jissai ni wa saishū-tekina nehan ni hairu koto wa arimasenga, watashi wa zetsumetsu o ukeireyou to shite iru to sengen shimasu. Korera no kōtsugōna sōchi ni tayoru koto ni yotte, tasagata wa sonzai o oshie, kaishin sa semasu"

Lotus Sutra

In this way, since my attainment of Buddhahood it has been a very great interval of time.
My life-span is incalculable, ever enduring, never perishing.
O good men! The life-span I achieved in my former treading of the bodhisattva path even now is not exhausted, for it is twice the above number. Yet even now, though in reality I am not to enter final nirvana, yet I proclaim that I am about to accept extinction.
By resort to these expedient devices the Thus Come One the Tathagata teaches and converts the beings

Yumi's voice the only sound in the shrine as she chants the lotus 9 times as tradition manages at that time of day then once finished she becomes aware of the sun breaking the overcast as a beam like a golden spot light strikes the Shrine hill bathing everything in it's glow making her smile and feel a tingle pass through her giving her a delightful sensation as she steps out from under the overhanging roof.

She still smiles as she looks through the gate in the clouds but it is a smile of wonderment because she see's another world resting on the edge of the clouds that is slowly revealed as the concealing mists display that she does not see another world but she's she is in another world. Stunned she steps back feeling so alone atop the hill she has called home since she came here as a child.

So she begins chanting the Lotus sutra once more and feels a wash of relief as she feels the "Hito no kokoro" or Spirit of people around her spread over the city and it makes her giggle thinking how strange it is that the Hito no kokoro used in the practice of blind seeing should now come to her so strongly.