Know your times and its designs. Swordplay is exacting. Thrus, be shrewd with your jianqizhe “swordpraying.” A lot is needed.

It is the genius of life that demands of those who partake in it that they are not only the guardians of what was and is, but what will be.—Thomas Nō Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai +

It is the genius of life that demands of those who partake in it that they are not only are guardians of what was and is, but what will be.—Thomas Nō Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai +

Samurai: I have searched for you a very long time.Kari: Do not waste breath, kill. It is our way here.Samurai: Not before I have my say, Corpse-eater.Kari: No wonder you took so long to find me.on Valkyrie Kari,, Garden of the Dragons, Vol, iiii