/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>46388994
I'll take one for the team and marry and love the spud to my dying day

First, I heard footsteps behind me, and Miss Yuuka walked into view, walking around my side to stand behind the pedestal. "We believe that the intruder will attack during the ceremony." She told me bluntly. That was definitely her style. "She's got tools - Evading us. Fakes, distractions, hiding from view for a few seconds. It's only so long until they slip up. In my estimation, it will be one of three moments. When you're reading the vows, when you're exchanging the rings, or when you kiss. Keep this in mind. I have already informed Yamame. It is...Likely that we will have to interrupt the ceremony for a moment to capture the intruder." That wasn't exactly welcome news, but it wasn't unexpected news either. And - Sure, it would be disrupting my wedding, but it was another thing that I'd be able to say had happened to me. "Do not despair." Miss Yuuka murmured to me. "She will not escape us again."

I could hear some general murmur coming from behind us and resisted the urge to turn around to look. But between the murmurs, and between the gentle hum of the wind, I began to hear something. The slow, steady wail of a violin. The notes were long, and they sent the crowd into silence immediately. Suddenly, there was nothing but what I could see in front of me, and the sound I could hear. Of course, I thought to myself. The Horismriver Ensemble. I'd been running into so many people today that they had slipped my mind entirely.

The violin strengthened, the notes shifting from a single sustained note to something more flowing and bouncier. Up and down the notes went in tone, and the depth of the playing became more astonishing to me the longer I heard it. And then, the keyboard began to join in, lending the violin a background that enhanced the feel of the piece. A few moments later, the trumpets began, smoothly joining in with the other instruments, and just after that, the first beats from Raiko Horikawa's drums began. Even though I'd asked them to play, I hadn't expected it to be an entirely new piece. I'd expected that perhaps they would play something that they'd done in the past. Or, if it was a new piece, it would be something simplistic that they could get done in the time that they had before the wedding. Clearly, I had drastically underestimated their skill. In fact, I was starting to understand just what made Kisami so enamoured with them. They'd agreed to do this as a favour, but now I felt like I needed to pay them somehow regardless.

They knew what they were doing, too, because the crowd was silent. "Yamame is on her way here." Miss Yuuka murmured. "Do not turn around until I tell you to." Shakily, I nodded. Tenshi reached out and squeezed my shoulder. I wasn't entirely sure why I felt nervous now. Technically, we were already married. Maybe it was just the fact that there was a crowd, or perhaps it was the knowledge that we were doing the ring exchange this time, which was the moment of finality as far as I was concerned. That was it. The moment. The thing that everything had been leading up to. Eientei, my memories, Yamame's family...In the end, this was what it would come down to. Two rings.

But not before the Horismriver Ensemble had played their piece. It was a slow piece, one that was led mostly by the violin, but it didn't strike me as particularly melancholic like most of Lunasa Prismriver's music. I assumed that I owed this to the others, but it sounded quite...Hopeful. Like it was looking to the future.

Then, I heard the slight murmur of the crowd, and movement. And then... "Turn." Miss Yuuka told me, standing up straight and squaring her shoulders. I turned, looking back to see that the crowd had split down the middle.
And there she stood, like an angel.

Yamame Kurodani. Yamame-Kurodani-Hakurei, after today. Her outfit was almost entirely different. White and gold, like the first, but everything else was different. There were gold bands, of course. They were central to her identity, and they crossed around her waist and the length of her dress. The dress itself was unlike anything I had ever seen. It shimmered. It sparkled. In the light of the sun, it seemed to flow as if it was itself alive. I could see the influences. It left her shoulders bare, adhering to the skin without the looseness that Lady Hecatia's clothing typically showed. It curled around her upper arms, and below, flowed into short sleeves that left her arm bare until the elbow. At the elbow, she wore gloves. White, long and coming up to just past her elbow with frills on the end.

My lovely spider wife

I'm gonna marry the spider and nobody can stop me.

one
and it was sooky too.

had to marry one thou.
otherwise she would have killed me -.-'

>>13308406
Everything went better than expected. Now I can finally see what those legs look like.

>>12742143
Yamame is very cute! I want to marry her.

And surprisingly I had a dream about her last night, which is a rare treat.

>>12687249
>Contagion Embodiment
You know what it means.

yamama