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Periodically, I think back to those years I spent as an angry loner.

First I blamed myself. I was at fault for this terrible curse that had befallen me. Then I blamed others. It was really Kaguya's fault, or my father's. I couldn't get beyond my mistakes, dwelling on them year after year, decade after decade.

I spent many, many years roaming the world, learning new languages and cultures. But I could never stay in one place too long because I couldn't bear to face who I was.

Then, one day, everything changed.

It was probably around the early 11th century or so; I'm not sure, since I had been ignoring the date for at least a century or two by that point. After about 200 years of travel I had passed through China, down the Silk Road, through Arabia, throughout Europe, and finally returned home to my native Japan for the first time since my self-imposed exile.

That day Mount Fuji had begun erupting and sprayed lava flows and ash clouds all over the region. I decided to take this as a chance to investigate myself, as this was a rare chance to see a volcano "in action". But while I was hiking in the vicinity of the great mountain, I heard a scream.

A peasant girl was trapped by a lava flow. She had climbed a tree to stay away from the heat, but the lava was closing in fast. I had no idea how she had gotten herself in such a ridiculous predicament, but she had little time left. The heat was tremendous, if I had to jump across the lava floes I would surely suffer burns that would be fatal to any normal human merely from the convection. I could probably keep the girl safe by holding her as far away from the ground as possible, but resisting the heat would be a difficult task. The pain would surely be unbearable, even if I couldn't be killed.

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...but it didn't matter; I followed my instincts. Bracing myself, I leaped across the lava. The skin on my legs began frying due to the heat. I yelled to the girl to jump down--I caught her, held her above my head with both hands, and leaped back out. Then I blacked out.


I awoke on a bed in a magnificently well-furnished room. My legs were, of course, perfectly healed. Looking up, I saw the face of the peasant girl I had rescued earlier--but she was clearly no peasant, nor as young as I thought. She was dressed in an absurdly fancy outfit, her hair was blond instead of the previous black, and her eyes shone a deep gold.

"Who... who are you?" I asked.

"My name is Yukari Yakumo. I apologize for having to test you in such a manner; I just needed to know who you truly were before anything else."

"Who I truly am?" I asked, confused.

"You, like me, are an immortal. As a Youkai, I am perhaps a bit less immortal than you; in theory, I could still die, while you cannot. You have tremendous potential, but I first needed to know what you would use such power for. You knew that you would suffer tremendous pain to save me--and furthermore, you would run the risk of exposing your abilities to someone who should not know of your existence. Yet you did it anyways, despite the fact that you gained nothing."

"But it's only natural," I said. "The value of my life is effectively zero since it cannot be lost. The value of the life of any human, by comparison, is infinite: no matter what I do to save a human, I lose nothing, and if I succeed, the human gains everything. Not doing so would be incredibly selfish."

>> No.4555930

Don't worry about it, you're just a homosexual.

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"... an interesting approach," Yukari said. "I like it. Anyways, I'd like to make you an offer. You will get a chance to study at a Youkai school of magic here in Japan: learn the basics of potions, spellcasting, protection against magic, and the like. You can begin, perhaps, to realize your true potential."

I was somewhat overwhelmed at this point, but, seeing it as opportunity to try something new, I almost immediately accepted.

"I... of course I... accept."

I found out that I fit in surprisingly well with the Youkai. My attitude was not too different from theirs, perhaps due to similar situations. But there was one dramatic difference that I noticed almost immediately: I was ashamed of what I was, while all the Youkai were proud of what they were.

I'm not sure when it happened, or whether it was a gradual change. But one day I woke up and realized how incredibly, staggeringly stupid I had been.

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I had been granted a gift that most humans--and Youkai, for that matter--could only dream of. A perfect body, beautiful and strong with flawless senses. Fast and guaranteed regeneration from any injury. A natural affinity for magic equal to or greater than that of "Youkai magicians". The knowledge and wisdom that one can gain from hundreds of years of experience. And finally... I had all the time in the world. How ridiculous it had been to waste so many years!

From that day forward I vowed to do something with my life. I returned to my travels, but with a different philosophy. I pursued various interests: writing, politics, science. I worked with many inventors to bring a combination of Youkai ideas, my own experience, and human ingenuity to Medieval Europe. Of course, I always worked to conceal my existence. Gutenberg describes a "ray of light" through which he discovered the secret of the printing press, but I know the true originator of the technology that spawned the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution.

In the early 20th century I finally returned to that place I had left for all these years, only to find out that it had been sealed off as a modern Youkai paradise in a human world. As I approached the border, an oddly familiar voice spoke.

"Welcome home, Mokou."

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so kawaii anime-san ^_^

>> No.4555970

>School of magic

Mokou Potter And The Youkai's Stone!

Keep going, OP. I want to read about her epic adventures with Tewi Weasely and Kaguya Granger.

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/clap hands
Well done, OP.
Let's hear what more you have to say.

>> No.4555991

Seriously, where is the OP? He's gotta have more.

>> No.4555996

>>4555991
huh. Where have you been arc?
Haven't seen you in a while.

>> No.4555997

>>4555970
Copy My Immortal, replace all instances of 'Enoby' with 'Moko' and 'goffik' or 'vampire' with 'youkai'.
It can't possibly go wrong.

>> No.4555999

>>4555996

>haven't seen me

Odd, I've been around. Just not as much.

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>>4555997
I hate to say it Jones but you just made a good post.

>> No.4556006

>>4555997

Why do that, when instead I could plunk ENOBY in Gensokyo so she can GOFF OUT with Remilia and co.?

>> No.4556012
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Shikieiki as Hagrid.

>> No.4556018

>>4556012

YES, YES. She'd make a great keeper of the keys.

>> No.4556020

>>4555970

Oh fuck you, now I can't unsee that idea.

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>>4556004
All of my posts are good.

>>4556006
Looking forward to it, bro. Those Eintei preps'll never see it coming.

>> No.4556037 [DELETED] 

>>4555997

AN: Special spellcardz (get it, coz Im youkai) 2 my gf (ew not in that way) raven, bloodytearz666 4 helpin me wif da story and spelling. U rok! Justin ur da luv of my deprzzing life u rok 2! MCR ROX!

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Hi my name is Ivory Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ivory black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple tinges and that reaches my mid-back and firy red eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a youkai but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a magician, and I go to a magic school in Gensokyo where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a youkai (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking around Gensokyo. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

“Hey Ivory!” shouted a voice. I looked up. It was…. Reimu Hakurei!

“What’s up Reimu?” I asked.

“Nothing.” he said shyly.

But then, I heard my friends call me and I had to go away.

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AN: IS it good? PLZ tell me spellcardz !

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>>4556026
Not true

>> No.4556039

>>4555997

AN: Special spellcardz (get it, coz Im youkai) 2 my gf (ew not in that way) raven, bloodytearz666 4 helpin me wif da story and spelling. U rok! Justin ur da luv of my deprzzing life u rok 2! MCR ROX!

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Hi my name is Ivory Mokou Fujiwara Raven Way and I have long ivory white hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple tinges and that reaches my mid-back and firy red eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a youkai but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a magician, and I go to a magic school in Gensokyo where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a youkai (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking around Gensokyo. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

“Hey Mokou!” shouted a voice. I looked up. It was…. Reimu Hakurei!

“What’s up Reimu?” I asked.

“Nothing.” he said shyly.

But then, I heard my friends call me and I had to go away.

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AN: IS it good? PLZ tell me spellcardz !

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>>4556039

Brilliant!!

>> No.4556048

>>4556039
Mokou is not a youkai.

>> No.4556052

>>4556048

that's_the_joke.jpg

>> No.4556053

>>4556026
You hold yourself in too high an esteem.

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>>4556039
>I'm seventeen

>> No.4556101

>>4556039

Chapter 2, now!

>> No.4556197

>>4556101

bump

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>> No.4556469

well done OP, I'm in tears because of the Beauty.

>> No.4556519

get off Kaguya's computer Mokou

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>>4556519

But she's my onii-chan!

>> No.4558951

Not your blog, Mokou. Get out.

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