So help me

[petronia]

I'm trying to finish book 16 and I can't get past this scene due to laughing too hard because I know what's happening but I keep on trying to picture what those flying cultist guards must be thinking as they watch Kiyomasa sit there holding hands with Kagetora and gazing intently into his no wait Kagetora's clasping his hand OVER HIS HEART, except the guards cannot actually tell this because it is all taking place under a quilt, and did I mention Kiyomasa's got tissue paper in his mouth because Motoharu ordered the guards not to let him talk, but evidently forgot to order them not to let him (pretend to) be gay all over Kagetora, because that shiz is normal.

These books will kill me. I can feel my life draining away.

EDIT1 -- OMG grossest escape attempt ever. D: (Motoharu: "Hmm, this sudden stinky mud geyser eruption is strangely reminiscent of the sudden volcano eruption that other time. I wonder who might be causing it.")

EDIT2 -- I finally realise what this Aso caldera place reminds me of: IT'S THE GODDAMN NORTHERN CRATER IN FF7. Wandering round and round in the snow while waiting for your hero to go bonkers and everything to go to shite directly after.

Comments

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE. I adore Kiyomasa HE IS SUCH A DORK I SWEAR the later books will make you keel over. XD I'm sad that he never actually got to meet Chiaki; they would've driven Kagetora nuts between them.

It's, hey, you know these Warring States generals and their Intense Emotional Interactions. :D

Motoharu: "Hmm, this sudden stinky mud geyser eruption is strangely reminiscent of the sudden volcano eruption that other time. I wonder who might be causing it."

*wipes eyes* Dude, I FELL OFF THE COUCH at that bit. Motoharu, Motoharuuuuuu.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Thing is, I cannot shake the conviction that it would've been PROFOUNDLY AWESOME if, when Motoharu went "*sniffsniff* Do you smell rotten eggs outside?" the cultist dude had answered with a straight face, "Well, Katou Kiyomasa did have a bit of an emergency."

...And then the narrative falls off a 50-metre-high cliff of angst. Noooo Naoe go pick him up out of the snowbank, what else are semes good for. *weeps*