《（最游记同人）镜里镜外》作者：未知

saiyuki: through the lookg gss

chapter 1: the lookg gss

the walls were staed with dried blood

different blood fro different youkai who had united their ds, souls and bodies towards the defense of their kg priitive politics fed together with a gri sort of nocence found only lower creatures a va battle, but nevertheless bravely fought not that he wanted to be nteptg ssy skirishes at this ont that was for the strategy table and his study, not here

regardless of his weak resotion, a part of his d was beg itself with grueso thoughts

now those youkai were nowtrulyunified altogether now as a river of hair and blood upon the castle grounds beautifulthat isto a ore orbid eye, but tenpou did not have a orbid eye none of this was beautiful, even if it was necessary he looked all with distaste

he hated the red it ade hi thk of ortality, which (he believed) all gods feared then it ade hi thk of losg battles, which was sothg all soldiers feared then it ade hi thk of losg friendswhich was sothg goku greatly feared of urse, beg a god, tenpou was beyond that should have been beyond that but if he were truly honest with hiself, uld never be beyond that

then it ade hi thk of losg hiself, as selfish as it was to turn these gs towards his own privileged lot tenpou siled, if not a little orosely "sell fish?" goku would say he didn't know the ang of the word, nor did he need to 'sell fless' was ore fittg for the forbidden child but tenpou uldn't be like that, as uch as he felt he should be

there was too uch at risk the field arshal's ars were already oupied perforg a huge bancg act with "heaven's fate"- the oute of which he was still unsure- and he wasn't really willg to unburden anybody else for the sake of generosity too uch at stake and too uch to lose the higher up you are, the harder you fall and tenpou was high enough to know that gablg recklessly with his own fate was unwise if he was ever gog to die, it wasn't gog to be a cheap ticket for anybody

can i hold that for you? a dangero estion

it ant volvent with soone else and volvent with soone else plicated the web and jolted the eilibriu of the situation soone else's favor

hence, the reason he slept with kenren

tenpou siled to hiself aga, this ti a little devilishly first of all it was fun can't rule that out pletely but send of all, kenren never asked estions not anyore, at least and not sce they'd started havg sex becae the general, sensible an that he is, had figured out that if he wanted to keep havg sex, then the ic of political otives would have to be shut up tight so dark rner of his st-driven, alhol tged head you know the drill, soldier

then there was konzen, whose tendency not to pry was dissipatg every day he saw goku ope over the ability to see nataku "what's wrong with nataku, konzen? konzenkonzen! what's happeng? and who's that an old an alith hi? ould nataku rather spend his ti with hi than ? and why did that nasty old guy hit ten-chan?"

that st one was a slip-up poor kid uldn't keep a secret even his nch depended on it

anyway, konzen got riled up, gave tenpou the third degree, futile as it was, then went straight to tentei straight to the jade eperor hiself to clear his friend's nas, to apologize for the- though his scerity was a bit straed- and to get the ex-general restated aybe goku was gettg to hi high arks for selflessness there and this was konzen for goodness' sake

konzen-i-don't-care-to-do-anybody-favors-becae-you're-all-dt-beneath-y-golden-sandals-douji

literally, with the 'holier than thou' attitude radiatg fro hi like sunlight

albeit the price for all his kdness was an expnation, reported by tenpou hiself its abridged, revised, edited, censored and suarized version; which ca down to one siple, non-self-expnatory ncsion: all's bad the holy nd better start prayg

who the hell a i gonna pray to? konzen growled, but it was enough to keep hi at bay

but any thoughts of konzen were ickly phed away by the gri sensation of steppg a puddle of still unsolidified blood, stag the edges of his bck ary boots with acrid crison tenpou sed the bile that rose his throat and kicked any loose drops off his foot, disgtg, then presud surveyg the ghastly epty terior of gyuuao's castle

o pairs of footsteps echoed throughout the a hall kenren was right behd hi silent for once, but with his fger ready at the trigger

"i don't like it" said kenren, checkg the barrel for the eighth ti