Weather:

M: Chilly.

T: Nice and Mild.

W: Mild.

Th: Windy.

F: Mild.

S: Cloudy, windy, Chilly.

Su: Clear, then snow on the evening.

10/01/10

Dear Diary.

I need to prepare for my new little event... I started with getting a little indirect help from the red and white. At least I hope it did... I followed through with my normal routine. Morning, work and post work and this little event actually got me to Donate a bit more to the Hakurei Shrine. That did get the Red and White's attention of course and she went on a little questionnaire tangent. This time I was actually being pretty truthful I was actually praying for some extra luck for my up coming Duel with the Konpaku girl. I tried to get some intel off of the Hakurei shrine's crew on that Gardener girl but they didn't know much. Figures... Well I sure hope this shrine's God or Gods can give me a little hand. Now I need to make a little battle plan for my up coming fight.

10/02/10

Dear Diary.

I have now three days to prepare for my Duel with the Konpaku girl. First is to buff up my physical prowess. Which means that I hit the Library to learn up some "Attack/Defense buff" Spell. I got a couple more basic spells and got it mastered by today. Low level spells are a piece of cake to me now. Sort of glad that the weather was nice today. Visiting the Village to try and gather more intel but apparently now a lot of people knows about the bowl cut silver haired gardener. I guess its fair since the girl literally lives with ghosts. Kind of ironic since shes afraid of them. Anyway I took my time to sort of relax, but I shouldn't procrastinate anymore.

10/03/10

Dear Diary.

I told Meiling about my up coming Duel today.. And no one else. I don't know, of all my crew mates, I just trust her the most... I think its because I feel shes the most Human... I'm actually surprised that she agreed to help me get a bit stronger. She actually taught me how to manipulate my Chi more now. So much for the "Discover your own path" mumbo jumbo. After work Meiling helped me Spar. I had to take multiple breaks but she was coming at me non-stop... I guess that's what makes her a little less human. I learned a a lot though. I feel I can use my chi a bit more now. I can more or less use it to form a paper thin layer of Chi armor. Is this power going to help me against the Konpaku Girl? I sure hope so...

10/04/10

Dear Diary.

On top of my training session I visited the Antique shop again today. I think he got more stock. Who's his dealer? Anyway, I didn't buy anything, just browsing. Most of them are pretty low tech. Like really old tech, like dial up tech. The lanky guy did ask me a ton of questions though. What's with these people and asking so much gog damn questions... Anyway they were mostly about the items in the shop. I think he was quizzing his questions about the items in the store as some sort of quiz. I saw right through that. I'm going to come back next week. Maybe he's going to have new items in stock.

10/05/10

Dear Diary.

Well... My Duel with Konpaku is tomorrow and boy am I nervous... I trained super hard today. Even when I was sparring with Flan I was trying to go on the offensive. It didn't go well but I learned more about Flan. That girl is holding back but she wont even hesitate to crank her Danmaku to 11. She looked like she had fun. Her cute little fangs exposed when shes laughing at my bruised and battered body is sort of cute. That's another thing... I don't think I know how to go on the offensive... My first encounter with the Youkai that almost killed and ate be sort of killed itself by running into a sharp end of a stick. My second encounter I got my butt kicked and I was on the offensive and even my sparring match with Meiling and Flan I'm pretty much on the back like trying to block and dodge... I should have tried to fix this... I think it's too late... Am I going to lose? I'm a little worried...

10/06/10

Dear Diary.

Well... I lost... I almost lost a limb. Konpaku came to pick me up for the Duel after my work was done but Meiling wanted to see me fight. This was bad because pretty much the rest of the Scarlet Mansion crew came to watch. Half my plan went out the window. I was going to use my Ethereal shift spell to gain positional advantages but I also don't want people to know that I know this spell. Especially the Mansion crew. So the Ethereal shift plan was out the window. Personally I blame my lack of combat skills and the fact that I couldn't use my trump card... The air was chilly and cloud covered the sky when Konpaku gave me the details of the duel. First person to be out of commission without dying loses. So basically any near death events... I could lose an arm and or a leg or more.. I mean I didn't but still... Also she wanted to spice things up a little. Who ever loses has to follow the Victor's words as long as they want... So basically slave labor. All the Mansion crew was watching me. I pretty much had one plan. Wear her out, too bad her stamina was more than an average joe's... The moment the fight started she was out of my sight... That girl knows how to move. If it wasn't for my spells I wouldn't have made it. The hum of her swords cutting the chilly air, those red eyes locked on to me I swear her eyes were glowing. Her shooting Danmaku didn't help my situation. Also for some reason her ghost can hit me like a truck... I thought ghosts were all phase-ey and what not... At the end of the day I basically threw in the towel. I know when I'm beaten. But it was kind of cute seeing her smile at her victory. After she won she told me that she was going to give me my first order in due time. Oh yeah... my Boss was watching the whole thing. I don't think she was angry, I think she knew that this was going to happen. Kind of sucks that I lost but I'm glad that this is over for now.

10/07/10

Dear Diary.

I'm a bit sore from yesterday. I had to patch up my clothes that was cut up from Konpaku's sword. I basically chilled with Flan in the Library only because it started snowing outside... It was sort of comforting just holding Flan, and reading a nice book by the fire place. I think the Library crew was even enjoying everyone's presence. I got over one little event but now there's another one just over the horizon... Konpaku having full control over me. How is that going to over lap with my current job? I wish I knew...