[Journal Post]

[blackrthanblack]

To anyone generally dealing with Kamala. Yes that means you, Onni, Shian, Shikou, Kou, etc.

Keep ANY foreigners you or she doesn't know away from my daughter. By any means necessary.

Apparently 'champions' and 'heroes' from across the globe, from what I'm being told, are after her. And most are being kept from entering Japan. But some might slip through the cracks.

Comments

[blackrthanblack]

... Kanan, what do you have to do with all this that you can add input.

[itkananbe]

Mmmm, not a firm believer, but my family is connected to a temple that has mystery prophecies that might be relevant, but I apologize if I'm bad at this, since.

I'm, you know, a kid?

[blackrthanblack]

Spill, sweetie.

[itkananbe]

Let me grab my notebook, Mrs. Wakahisa.

... Okay, let's see...

"...And from the deepest darkness from the aeons old, Erebus, the Mandala Manticore shall stir the Burning Sea of Chaos, and from it, the incomplete Uncrowned Queen shall be raised..."

"... 'Lo, for the Eyes of Deception, the Jaws of Truth, and the Heart of Magic shall become one, and kneel before the one who comes, for she is the Triquetra-Triskelion, the Horn who shall sound the quickening of the Messiah's Birth..."

"... Forget not the Crime of Atlantis, the great war for the sake of Earth. Do not forgive the arrogant lords of Earth, who greedy with hunger for the Paradise of Antediluvia, used the Crime of the King to lock the doors to that blessed Eden. Forgive not their crime, forgive not their sin, forgive not they stole your truest home..."

"... And lo' in the fourth month of the 10,022th Year, the Queen unblessed, shall open the door to the unmade netherworld, and from there two beasts shall crawl in the lands of the created..."

"... Behold the Birth of the Uncrowned Queen, who comes for her throne in the Blessed Paradise of [unintelligible]. Love her for her name is Hope. Love her for she steals the Key from the false lords of Earth. She is the most beloved of all, for she shall open the Gates, and return to us our birthright."

[itkananbe]

As a note here, quick, the source of these prophecies was considered nuts among the sect of the Babel-Vulgate Church they came from.

And 99% of all prophecies don't mean anything.

[memoryistime]

Sounds like to me, whoever was making these prophecies found a way to spread their word.

[itkananbe]

I'm not. Sure? About that? The version I've heard people in the Domino area once or twice while walking home is much more apocalyptic.

[memoryistime]

You ever heard of a "game of telephone"?

It's like that, I bet.

[itkananbe]

That'd make sense, Mx. Shian.

Because the temple I was kinda at a lot when I was younger... its version is less 'fire and brimstone' and more... 'a promise to correct a wrong'.

[blackrthanblack]

Kanan, 20 questions, so to speak.

Who are you.

[itkananbe]

Kenzaki Kanan. Kamala's classmate.

[blackrthanblack]

What temple.

[itkananbe]

Temple of the Mysteries of the Mandala Manticore, ma'am.

[blackrthanblack]

What God, then, are you following orders of.

[itkananbe]

None.

[blackrthanblack]

You said you came from a temple.

[itkananbe]

You do not worship the Mandala Manticore, Mrs. Wakahisa.

To invite as such would to invite its notice and thus disaster.

[blackrthanblack]

Explain.

[itkananbe]

The best way I can explain it is... The Mandala Manticore is a... Chthonic(???) Goddess, you don't worship them, or if you do, it's under very strict circumstances.

The Mandala Manticore is... basically a mean-spirited luck goddess. Or at least finds the most darkly funny option the best.

[blackrthanblack]

And your intentions with my daughter.

[itkananbe]

Uh. I was sent to track if the prophecies were actually lining up.

But. I'd honestly like to ask her out on an ice cream date, ma'am?

[blackrthanblack]

Wait. What.

[itkananbe]

I want to protect Kamala, ma'am.

And if you'll let me, take her out for ice cream some time.

I'd LIKE the whole undoing the "Crime of Atlantis" stuff, but, that's like down my list, Mrs. Wakahisa?

[blackrthanblack]

So.

No nefarious schemes?

[itkananbe]

None.

I'm more like a religious order's version of a birdwatcher, sorta, ma'am?