SaiMono

It was your first day on the job in the palace and you lost your way. However, the man you worked for didn't have a very good sense of direction either. Light Reader+Koyu. Lost and Found "I'm late! I'm late!" The phrase you chanted reminded you of a story you had read to the children at the temple while you were helping Shurei take care of them. The story was about a girl who was thrown into a wondrous yet confusing land, and that was how you felt. The Hong family had taken you in without asking about your past, your reason to run away, or a form of payment. You were eternally grateful to them. To top it all up, they were even able to get

Herein is the Story of Saiunkoku. In the distant past, in the era when the demons of the rivers and mountains ran rampant through the country, in the midst of that endless chaos a single youth went out upon a journey. Driving away the rampant demons, and with the public’s peace and welfare hidden in his breast, he continued his endless journey. Presently, eight sages gathered, deeply touched by those feelings.  Ransen (Indigo), Kousen (Crimson), Hekisen (Green), Kousen (Yellow), Hakusen (White), Kokusen (Black), Sasen (Brown), Shisen (Purple) – Named of colour, they were eventually called the “Eight Many-Coloured S

'Emperor Shi Ryuuki, Working in your employ for the past number of--' There was a violent crumpling of parchment accompanied by an irritated groan from the young woman doing the crumpling. One could tell the girl had been at this for a while--there were ink smudges in different places on her hands and a few on her face, even, and the ground around her little desk was littered with balled-up attempts at the letter she had been trying to compose. This was Shuurei Ko, the young daughter of Shouka Ko, the keeper of the Imperial Library. She'd been brought to the castle almost a year ago to pose as the first and still only member of the Emperor