User blog:Hakaishin Aro/The Inari temple

You are in front of a temple in Zipangu and recognize it immediately as Aro's home, the place he started at when he first arrived in this world. If you wish to find a calm place to recharge your spirit, ask questions about Aro and his family, simply relax and enjoy a cup of tea or give an offering to the 'Goddess of fertility, rice, tea and sake', then please come in. Everyone is welcome in the Inari Temple.



Inhabitants
Inside the temple grounds, a motherly Inari, is tending to her bonsai garden with loving care. Two Miko, are lively chatting on the steps close to the shrine, while a man who look like a tired warrior is sitting at a table near the koi-pond sipping tea served by a young Inari they are obviously members of Aro's family.

They all turn in your direction and bow.

"Welcome visitor, to the Kimura temple. We hope you'll enjoy your stay."

Kimura Nozomi: A peace loving Inari, she's the Temple Priestess serving at the temple built in the honor of the Goddess Inari Ookami, protector of the Inari Mamono among her other patronages. She is one of the Great Zenko Kitsune, the faction of the benevolent Fox Youkais that protect all inhabiting the land regardless of their lineage, species, religious beliefs or the likes. She firmly believes in one's freedom of choice and second chances in life, something that the Kimura family was well known before Lilith came to power and that didn't change to this day. She is a 7 tailed Inari, yet it is rumored her magical power rivals that of the majority of 9 tailed individuals, well versed in curses and ways to remove them. She designed the protective talismans forming the Talisman Grid placed in and around the temple as well in the coastal village downhill, the Murky water village.

She enjoys spending times caring for her bonsai garden, one of the most beautiful in all Zipangu and has a passion for tea, so much she has a stock of the best tea infusions from not only her own, but several other worlds she visits from time to time to restock her supplies.

Octavius Aurelius Tacitus: A former Order Hero, his visit to the land of Zipangu started as a spy of the Order, as he was the one of several spies sent into the country to observe and find out about its defenses and other weaknesses for the planned invasion. With his cover blown he was trying to reach Murky Water, a small fishermen village on the eastern Zipanguese coast, however fate wanted things happen otherwise. With his pursuers hot on his tracks and the ship leaving him behind he followed a voice of a woman and found refuge inside the temple. The local priestess was the one guiding him to safety of her temple. She even greeted the pursuers, a Mamono/Human mixed party befitting of Zipangu, telling them their man went south.

The 'Monster' and 'Monster Slayer' lived several days under the same roof, their ideologies clashing in their short conversations. The man never saw the face of his savior, yet something was odd about her. She knew who and what he was but never she had shown fear or weariness to the man, neither she stood up or turned to face him from her kneeling position in front of the 'lower shrine'. The food offered to him didn't contain any DE or any kind of poison and she never asked him anything in return for rescuing him. Even when he has his sword ready for the killing blow she wouldn't move a muscle, despite her being aware of it. She explained she was a peace loving individual and that violence did not belong in her temple. Octavius was intrigued by the woman, as he couldn't understand her ideology, but decided to stay at the temple to learn more about her family ways. One night, be it by the hand of the Fates, Eros or simple luck, they met in the temples indoors onsen and Octavius was mesmerized, charmed by her beauty, despite no magic was cast that night. From there on His Longsword, gladius and armor became nothing more but a relic of past, a family treasure and a reminder of a story how once love bloomed beneath the cherry blossoms.

Kimura Miyuki: The oldest of the Kimura siblings, Miyuki, along with her younger sister Saori is a Kitsune-Tsuki unlike others.

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