The Day of Thunder

Regardless of when exactly he arrived, Ranmaru definitely meant to stand up to this embodiment of evil. Her feminine wiles would no longer corrupt any of the good men of the Empire!

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Signing on as an alternate or active, depends on the mood I suppose.

For all of the stages, the boi has:
4k3
4k3-5 (Light Armor)
7k4

So not great. But he can run in and flail with TWO SWORDS.

Edit: That being said, my idea for the last roll is memeworthy: Athletics / Strength to entice the Harbinger into fighting.

I should have included this in there.

Technically, 9% of this town now loves Ranmaru.

With the aid of the kami, Ranmaru devised perfection: To the gentlemen of the village, This world is imperfect. If only we could wipe away the impurities... or can we? You see, our enemy relies on cowardly machinations to corrupt your very souls. They rely on seeking out vulnerabilities in the psych...

Can we benefit from someone else casting spells since we're not going to be present there?

HE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE ME UNTIL NOW. Ranmaru shut his eyes tight so that he could properly bear this agony. Once he got over his dramatics, he said, "As good as the evening can be." Dejected he bowed goodbye before slipping away.

Throughout the selection process, Ranmaru turned inward. This purpose he had concocted for himself had been for naught. He took the realization better than he had anticipated. Here would not be where he forged his destiny. And so easily he abandoned his niceness. "Hmpf, I guess it ended up working o...

Thunder, huh... Satsuki stood next to Hikaru, reaching for his hand in this moment. These past days, becoming a Thunder had been farthest from her mind; she had been too busy thinking of how to help, how to do everything she could to make sure Jigoku would be defeated and Doji would be saved. Her e...

Ranmaru scratched the back of his head then entered the line. To pass the time, he periodically got down onto the ground and started doing basic exercises such as push-ups. For once, it wasn't really to show off. It was just to stave off boredom in the only way he could think of.

"I dunno, I think that the leakage might have caused some people to do minor weird things..." Ranmaru wasn't quite sure where that thought of castes had come from. There were talks among some clans about hierarchies and stuff but nothing too absolute. But he was going to run with it. "There's a diff...

Ranmaru pressed his lips together. "I do actually want to do better than that. It's rather pitiful to watch the gentle ones cry." Change really didn't come instantaneously. "Does that happen a lot to you? I mean like how do you even help someone without them taking it the wrong way?" Ranmaru shook h...

"I feel bad about hurting her, obviously! I mean, even if I'd just hurt her feelings." Ranmaru thought about bringing up that he only choked the lady for like a few seconds but that didn't sound that much better. Instead, he took a bit to collect himself. "I've been thinking that maybe I've been hur...

"I don't know! She was a strange lady and we've been dealing with a lot of strange women lately!" Ranmaru looked away, even more ashamed than he had been before. "I really shouldn't have done it. It's got me thinking about stuff."

Ranmaru had never met her before. Moreover, since she was female, he had not very much bothered to learn more about her. "It's not nonsense," he said, brring his lips into the water until the heat hurt way too much. "Fuck!" This physical discomfort, though, was nothing compared to what he felt insid...

"Using a horse is definitely cheating in this example," Ranmaru said. "If I wanted to ride a horse, then I bet I would be pretty good at it." The story about the male artist, however, was particularly horrifying to him. "But she isn't of our caste, is she? She just... fights?" He scratched the back ...

Well, it would probably have been really bad if he choked Doji even if it was in his dream or even just a representation of her in his head. "Nooooo... No she was much too short to be her. And is her hair white? This lady's wasn't." He sank into the water a bit more. Maybe he should have started see...

Ranmaru blinked a few times. "Goodness, now I might dream about that." Losing any sort of fight wasn't something he would have liked. "But no," he continued, turning more grim. "She looked sad. When she left, everything around me wilted. Oh, uh, we were in her garden. At least, I assume it had to ha...

"How cowardly. Just face our champions with theirs." Although he understood that even a war between men could result in much treachery. Maybe duels were the best way to settle conflicts after all. "Anything else? Um, my last dream was... Odd." He still hated recalling it, the feeling of soft skin br...

Well, laughter was just about what he expected. It wasn't fun for him to sit through, he made that clear with how much he shifted about, but he had come with the intention of hearing her out. "But surely Hida is holding back with her. And the men too, I'll admit that much, but perhaps more? I mean t...