About 5 months after the disaster of the secret meeting. It is now December. The year would be over in a few days. Azusa, who is traveling around the country disguised as a house called doctor, sits talking with MakenZero amidst fields. “August was the cavalry battle of four provinces. In October the purge of the popular movements began. We had barely evaded the first enemy suppression of the Caesura faction when rumors of the second reached us. Then on the 15th of this month, Thames got fed up and led his army to take back the provincial government. The faction's in a state of utter chaos right now.”

“Is there any news from Caesura?” MakenZero pondered. “Not this time. This is to say we’ve never gotten any. No one knows where he's gone. Since he's the only one that made it out of the deadly affair, people are calling him Run-Away Caesura. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's over for Caesura faction, now, too.” “That's not true. Thames will win. Caesura will come back. What about the capital?” “Oh, it's terrible. It's completely under the Wolves of the mountains’ control. Patriots are being hunted down every day by the packs of wolves. It's completely different from before--the city is running with blood. You should be careful, too.” Azusa looked at him.

“Their first mission is to establish order in the city. Until they do that, they won't look out here.”(Thinks of the man with chain-swords) “Now, the enemy most to be feared is one who exists in the shadows. Someone who would never be recorded in history unless betrayed.” MakenZero looked out at nature while Azusa got up. “All this bad things happen all around us. It even gets me down. What about you? Why aren't you depressed?” “It’s thanks to you.” I didn't expect to find you so cheerful. You'd think you'd be bored, out here in the sticks, after being an assassin.”  “. It's not like that. I love kenjutsu, which is the samurai's sword art. It requires the use of blades especially Japanese blades such as the katana, wakizashi, and no-daichi. Kenjutsu involves powerful, high commitment strikes to selected targets in order to kill the opponent. There is a strong side of spiritual and philosophical study. But I don't love killing. These five months have opened my eyes to any number of boring things.” “I see,” Azusa walks off, past a group of people.

“Laying in stock again? Must be tough coming all this way here, but they say in the capital that the ointment MakenZero makes works wonders on war wounds.” MakenZero walks across the country lanes. A farmer saw him and waved him over, “Ah MakenZero, it’s good to see you. My son’s stomach has been bothering him since last night, so--,” “All right. I’ll have to make up the medicine, so come by tomorrow to get it.” The woodcutter came over into their chat. “Going to gather herbs again today? You work hard.” “You too, be careful out there in the mountains.”

At MakenZero’s house, a group of kids are playing. The woman is rather listlessly (Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; lethargic) playing ball with a girl. “I’m home--,” the kids mob him. “You’re back! Where you go?” “I just went out to gather some herbs. Did you play with your aunt?” “Yes, but.” One girl spoke, “She’s no fun at all.” Another girl is standing back from the others. MakenZero looks to her, “What’s wrong?” “My dad said that there's something strange about you, so I shouldn't play with you. But my mom says you look out for everyone, so you're a good person.” “I see,” he patted her head, “Well, I'll be inside all day tomorrow, so you can play with everyone. It's getting late. You should all be heading home.” “Okay! See you later!” The kids run off home.

“I'm sorry. I don't smile well. I like children, but--,” “It’s okay.” She looked up at him, “Especially in front of that unguarded smile.” MakenZero gives her a surprise glance. “You smile a lot these days.” “Yes I guess that's true. I've been though a lot of bad times. I was born in the middle of a famine; I lost my parents and brothers. Since the age of nine, I've trained relentlessly under the teachings of my master. Now I'm Caesura’s shadow assassin. Up till now, in my dealings with people, I haven't had a lot to smile about. I learned the principles of the Kenjutsu, wielded a sword, killed. Even with pretty words for my skills, killing is still killing. Kill some to save others. All for an age in which the powerless could find happiness, but to tell the truth, up till now, I didn't know what happiness was. What I've come to fight for, and what I'll fight for from now on. Living these five months in the country, with you, has taught me that. I know that someday the fighting will begin again, but at least until New Year’s; I want it to stay like this.”

A man warms his hands over a fire on the side of the street thinking to himself. “How long can we keep up this undercover life? Just be patient until Caesura returns. Hm?” The man notices Azusa. “Wait that Azusa. What is he doing in the city? He said he was staying with MakenZero for the night. Something’s up?” He follows Azusa out of the city, to an old shack in the woods. “Something is definitely wrong. There are a lot of hideouts for our faction, but even I never heard of this one.” He peeks through a crack in the wall. Azusa sits before three fighters.

“The faction finished. Caesura escaped, but MakenZero is still under our control. He's changed a lot, these past five months. Now is the perfect time to strike.” The man thought to himself, “Azusa! He’s the traitor! We can’t when the city back without MakenZero, I have to warn him--,” Two arrows strike right where the wall had the crack. Catching the man off guard, he started to run away, and then a hand with blades for fingers grips his face. He starts to struggle but the grip was so strong that broke into the skin slicing his eyes and all of his face. The men go over to the body. “We cannot lose this moment!” The eldest of them spoke. Azusa was bent over the body, “This is Caesura’s advisor. When he goes missing someone’s going to notice.” “It was unavoidable. We must keep this up until MakenZero’s slaughter! We must pay great attention to what prevented our fellow shadow assassin’s chain sword from bringing him down.” “Meaning?” One of the other assassins looked toward the eldest assassin. “We've prepared this for a year. We'll use it now. Enishi!” Enishi, a sullen boy with spiky black hair, appears at the door. “It's your turn. Go!”

(Real Entry)

As usual a boring day. Mom went out all day. So I didn’t get to go to the college and see if I pass the class or pretty much failed it. And I’m pretty much not understanding the whole full time or part time student thing. I was full time now. And that’s three classes. I have three classes for next semester but it doesn’t add up to be 12 credit hours or over. I have 10. Why in the world is this happening? And the classes I would pick are too far apart from my other classes. 12 p.m. then my next class is at 8:30 that night! What’s the deal? I hate this.

I hope this gets all worked out. Even if I pass my English class, which I already know that I did. It’s because of my good grades at the end in that class. Hopefully I passed at least one of those essays. Gosh please I need to make it for the exit computer exam. I can’t believe I have to do three things to get out of this class. If I fail one part of the test in English. I have to take the whole class over. This sucks. But anyways moving on.

Didn’t do very much today. Lately I’ve been running every other day. So I’m getting semi back in shape. I didn’t go by EB Games like I thought I would but oh well. Maybe I’ll go another time. Only three more final exams and this semester is over. Thank god. I read up on my comics’ lol. I love doing that. Which reminds me. There’s a Power Puff Girls comic I’ve been reading called, “The Power Puff Girls Doujinshi.” Doujinshi is an Asian word of course, meaning Fan-art.

This comic will blow your mind away. It’s incredibly drawn well. Not only are they older (just in first grade really and more Japanese style clothing for them.) Other Cartoon Network characters make appearances. Even Nickelodeon characters are in this one. That’s probably the other reason why this comic isn’t know. Licensing and stuff. It’s still cool. He uses characters I have seen in a long while you know. It’s also pretty dark too. One of the characters was killed!!! So check it out. It’s going to be an awesome storytelling I can see it. Gosh this is something I probably would and should have been doing you know. Maybe I can come up with something later. Hey not such a sad entry yay! ^_^

http://bleedman.snafu-comics.com/ Go Power Puff Girls Go!!!!