Memory of “A Land with History” — Don’t Look Back! —
Description: A slightly younger Kino listens to Master's story of a country she visited once on her travels in the past. She had been traveling with a man she refers to only as her Partner, and they were visiting a country with a small population and good technology hoping to offload some gemstones acquired earlier. However, the place was crawling with many police, and when he went to sell, Partner ended up wrongly imprisoned and accused of possession of illegal drugs.
The police then went to Master and explained that her lover was arrested for illegal possession of drugs that could put him in jail for ten years. Master corrected them saying he was only a traveling companion, and visited him in the luxurious police headquarters where the police tried to get her to pay a ransom to have him released. Instead, she went to bid him farewell as he whined about his belongings left behind with her.
Those belongings, it turns out, were assassination tools. She left the country through the regular procedures before returning in the dead of night using Partner's tools to infiltrate the country, setting off bombs pre-planted in police cars and power stations to cause bedlam while breaking Partner out. They then ransacked the police headquarters for persuaders and supplies while dressed as police officers themselves, holing up in the tallest tower in the center of the country and spending three days and three nights barricaded there, shooting at the legs of any police but letting civilians pass by peacefully until the police, at a loss and embarrassed to be so publicly defeated, agreed to pay them to leave the country.
The young Kino is clearly entertained by the tale.
Note: the original Japanese does not particularly gender Kino, and by default most people tend to assume Kino is male upon sight, so assume cases of "Miss" etc. are just some polite referral to Kino (one official translation uses Mx.) unless otherwise noted.
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Day 382
Date: 2021-07-13 04:29 am (UTC)Description: A slightly younger Kino listens to Master's story of a country she visited once on her travels in the past. She had been traveling with a man she refers to only as her Partner, and they were visiting a country with a small population and good technology hoping to offload some gemstones acquired earlier. However, the place was crawling with many police, and when he went to sell, Partner ended up wrongly imprisoned and accused of possession of illegal drugs.
The police then went to Master and explained that her lover was arrested for illegal possession of drugs that could put him in jail for ten years. Master corrected them saying he was only a traveling companion, and visited him in the luxurious police headquarters where the police tried to get her to pay a ransom to have him released. Instead, she went to bid him farewell as he whined about his belongings left behind with her.
Those belongings, it turns out, were assassination tools. She left the country through the regular procedures before returning in the dead of night using Partner's tools to infiltrate the country, setting off bombs pre-planted in police cars and power stations to cause bedlam while breaking Partner out. They then ransacked the police headquarters for persuaders and supplies while dressed as police officers themselves, holing up in the tallest tower in the center of the country and spending three days and three nights barricaded there, shooting at the legs of any police but letting civilians pass by peacefully until the police, at a loss and embarrassed to be so publicly defeated, agreed to pay them to leave the country.
The young Kino is clearly entertained by the tale.
Note: the original Japanese does not particularly gender Kino, and by default most people tend to assume Kino is male upon sight, so assume cases of "Miss" etc. are just some polite referral to Kino (one official translation uses Mx.) unless otherwise noted.