IMEEJI MEMORY REGISTRY;

[quickpersuader]

There's gonna be a lot of CWs in here but I will warn per memory.

Future regain list:
-A Tale of Fighting People cont
-Land of Adults 3
-Land of Kindness 3
-"To Do Something"
-Colosseum
-School
-Land of Visible Pain
-Land of Acknowledgement*
-A Land that Never Forgets*
-A Land Without Borders (day 2)

Formatting:

<a href=LINK>Memory</a> - DAYOF TITLE Description: DESCRIPTIONHERE <b>Note:</b> 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 351 CW: Cannibalism mention, descriptions of human remains from cannibalism

[quickpersuader]

Memory - Third Day of “A Tale of Feeding Off Others” —I Want to Live.—

Description: This time, "Kino" and "Hermes" can be heard normally.

Sky is assisting the snowed in men in digging their truck out. Once the way is clear, they ask Sky to remove the luggage from the vehicle, referring to them as "Kino." They all head to the back and one man goes inside while another asks, "Kino, will that motorrad be fine?" When they turn around, the man on the truck walks out holding a gun pointed at Sky, and though Sky immediately reaches for the holster of their own revolver, they stop and calmly face down the gun pointed at them, realizing they can't beat the man out in speed. What proceeds is a very calm and often blunt conversation in which the men reveal that they are slave traders intending to capture and sell Sky as a high-quality product with jewels and pretty clothes. Hermes, the motorrad, will of course be sold to a new owner as well. The men claim that they're truly grateful to Sky for saving them, but in the end they must do what it takes to survive.

They order Sky to remove their revolver, and one is smart enough to tell them to remove the pistol from their back, leaving Sky impressed he noticed. They then demand that Kino remove their knife, to which Kino explains they have them all over, and then has to remove them each one by one - from the pouches around their belt, the inside of their cuffs, the side of their pants, their boots, even a sheathe on their leg. It's enough to make the men question if they're a knife merchant. Eventually they pull out one last knife with a particularly fat handle... that turns out to be a hidden gun, because they use it to shoot the man in front of them, knife the man next to him deeply in the back, and then throw that corpse at the third man to pin him to the ground, retrieving their revolver to shoot him.

Hermes asks if they're alright, and Sky responds that they're unharmed, but that it was scary. They spend a while standing there, grinding their teeth before taking up the revolver again and checking out the truck.

Inside are human remains that are completely stripped of any flesh or edible pieces. Enough of the head remains to tell that it was a teen with long blonde hair, around the same age as Sky. After taking in the scene, they shut the door again, but leave the remains of the slave with the words “It’s not right. But, they didn’t want to die.”

They make the preparations to leave, taking out the ring that was offered to them by the men as a reward for saving them and leaving it behind "because I wasn’t able to save you in the end." They also pause to apologize to the remains of the three rabbits they hunted in the days earlier for the men: “Please don’t think badly of us. We’re only humans, after all.”

They then leave.

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.)

Notes;

[quickpersuader]

-Welp, there's the murder.
-They kept calm on the surface but they were honestly terrified their gambit might not work.
-Travelers on the road are not to be trusted.
-Their name is Kino, the motorrad is Hermes.