Owari clan Ninja 3
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Sorry for teh long delay but Real Life intervened. This is the third part of the misadventures of the group. Nothing big, but necessary as a transition to the next scene.
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"Everybody, this is my sister Ichika." she said in English, and then looked to the female sword spirit, "And, yes, I haven't forgotten that you have already met."
"I wasn't going to say anything." she said.
"Suuure you were." Sakura replied.
"Weren't we in a deadline?" Ichika said in a stern tone, "And you two aren't as funny as you think you are."
"Okay, sorry, I was just trying to lighten the mood." Sakura said, and pointed to the ruined gate, "With this on top of what is going on..., but you are right, we are a bit pressed for time."
"Do we all fit there?" Johann asked, opening his mouth beyond an occasional hmmm or grunt for the first time since
"Yes, it has space expanding charms." Ichika answered as she opened the side door of the van, revealing a second row of seats that by all rights shouldn't fit in the van, "Come in, we need to be on the road ASAP."
Sakura sat into the passenger's seat while Trini and the two sword spirits sat in the backseat. Ichika turned the key and went down the dirt road toward the main road.
"And now that we are on our way, what did happen there?"
"What do you know about Japan's story in the XIXth century?"
"Not much, really." Trini said, pensive, "I know that after Japan was forcibly open there was a civil war between followers of the Meiji Emperor and the ones who wanted to restore the Tokugawa Shogunate, but I don't know the specifics."
"That was the Boshin War, but it was preceded by a period of instability, with Western gunboat diplomacy adding fuel to the fire." Sakura said.
"I hadn't yet met my husband back then, but his father was pretty well known to be a supporter of the restoration of the Emperor's powers, which probably played a big part on what did happen." Ichika added with a sigh.
"They were attacked." Trini stated.
"Yes, Apparation, we think." Ichika said, "It was then when I met my husband. He was just a kid back then, fleeing from the attack with a handful of servants. The complex caught fire, trapping everybody else, including the attackers, inside. There were no survivors."
"And their spirits lingered on..." Trini said.
Ichika just nodded in answer, before Sakura took on, explaining briefly that they were finally sealed in the early 1890s, but they didn't manage to exorcise the yuurei, despite several attempts.
"...We have kept the wards in place, and most of the time you only felt a bit of disquietude when you are inside the ruins." Sakura said, "We should have purified it long, long ago, but... first Kamo, later the war, the post-war crackdown..."
"Have you contacted Masamune-no-Tokunotakai?" the female sword spirit said, "I have met her through her sister Musashi."
"Yes, we did..." said Sakura looking down for a moment, "...It's a long story." she added in a tone that implied they didn't want to discuss it.
Near Yokosuka. A road control. Some time later.
Lieutenant Yusuke Kaneda, JMSDF, approached the small van with a bit of trepidation. There were two Japanese women, very attractive if he had to admit it, in the front seats and three other barely visible people, which he didn't know how they could fit in there, in the backseats.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am, but this road is closed." He said, pretty formally.
"We have permission, Lieutenant." The woman at the wheel said.
"Allow me." one of the people in the backseat, a Western woman, said in English, presenting a military ID card, of the type used by shipgirls. Spanish Navy Ship Nuestra Señora de la Trinidad. The others also presented their identification documents. He arched an eyebrow to the birthdates of the other people in the back, but shrugged internally, they were probably tsukumogami of some type.
Nonetheless, he called Admiral Goto to confirm, which he did. Apparently she had called before to announce her visit, relative to the same matter that had made necessary the roadblock. He gave back the ID cards, ordered his men to open the control and gave them directions of how to arrive to their destination. As the van disappeared on the distance, he grimaced. It had to be something bad if foreign shipgirls from the other side of the planet were coming to help.
Sorry for teh long delay but Real Life intervened. This is the third part of the misadventures of the group. Nothing big, but necessary as a transition to the next scene.
==================================================================================
"Everybody, this is my sister Ichika." she said in English, and then looked to the female sword spirit, "And, yes, I haven't forgotten that you have already met."
"I wasn't going to say anything." she said.
"Suuure you were." Sakura replied.
"Weren't we in a deadline?" Ichika said in a stern tone, "And you two aren't as funny as you think you are."
"Okay, sorry, I was just trying to lighten the mood." Sakura said, and pointed to the ruined gate, "With this on top of what is going on..., but you are right, we are a bit pressed for time."
"Do we all fit there?" Johann asked, opening his mouth beyond an occasional hmmm or grunt for the first time since
"Yes, it has space expanding charms." Ichika answered as she opened the side door of the van, revealing a second row of seats that by all rights shouldn't fit in the van, "Come in, we need to be on the road ASAP."
Sakura sat into the passenger's seat while Trini and the two sword spirits sat in the backseat. Ichika turned the key and went down the dirt road toward the main road.
"And now that we are on our way, what did happen there?"
"What do you know about Japan's story in the XIXth century?"
"Not much, really." Trini said, pensive, "I know that after Japan was forcibly open there was a civil war between followers of the Meiji Emperor and the ones who wanted to restore the Tokugawa Shogunate, but I don't know the specifics."
"That was the Boshin War, but it was preceded by a period of instability, with Western gunboat diplomacy adding fuel to the fire." Sakura said.
"I hadn't yet met my husband back then, but his father was pretty well known to be a supporter of the restoration of the Emperor's powers, which probably played a big part on what did happen." Ichika added with a sigh.
"They were attacked." Trini stated.
"Yes, Apparation, we think." Ichika said, "It was then when I met my husband. He was just a kid back then, fleeing from the attack with a handful of servants. The complex caught fire, trapping everybody else, including the attackers, inside. There were no survivors."
"And their spirits lingered on..." Trini said.
Ichika just nodded in answer, before Sakura took on, explaining briefly that they were finally sealed in the early 1890s, but they didn't manage to exorcise the yuurei, despite several attempts.
"...We have kept the wards in place, and most of the time you only felt a bit of disquietude when you are inside the ruins." Sakura said, "We should have purified it long, long ago, but... first Kamo, later the war, the post-war crackdown..."
"Have you contacted Masamune-no-Tokunotakai?" the female sword spirit said, "I have met her through her sister Musashi."
"Yes, we did..." said Sakura looking down for a moment, "...It's a long story." she added in a tone that implied they didn't want to discuss it.
Near Yokosuka. A road control. Some time later.
Lieutenant Yusuke Kaneda, JMSDF, approached the small van with a bit of trepidation. There were two Japanese women, very attractive if he had to admit it, in the front seats and three other barely visible people, which he didn't know how they could fit in there, in the backseats.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am, but this road is closed." He said, pretty formally.
"We have permission, Lieutenant." The woman at the wheel said.
"Allow me." one of the people in the backseat, a Western woman, said in English, presenting a military ID card, of the type used by shipgirls. Spanish Navy Ship Nuestra Señora de la Trinidad. The others also presented their identification documents. He arched an eyebrow to the birthdates of the other people in the back, but shrugged internally, they were probably tsukumogami of some type.
Nonetheless, he called Admiral Goto to confirm, which he did. Apparently she had called before to announce her visit, relative to the same matter that had made necessary the roadblock. He gave back the ID cards, ordered his men to open the control and gave them directions of how to arrive to their destination. As the van disappeared on the distance, he grimaced. It had to be something bad if foreign shipgirls from the other side of the planet were coming to help.