Tales of The Realm

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Please note. Some parts of this story are still draft. Names, places, rough outlines, out of order, etc. I still hope you enjoy it though. Adult themes and coarse language warning also.

Preface: Tales of the Realm
"Overlook darkness: hurt true self,
Hide dark memories: hide old self,
Hate deep madness: hate dark self,
Illuminate darkness: manifest true self."
Preface: Memories
“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
The Realm
Prologue - Once Upon...
Prologue - An Ocean of Shadow
Prologue - Tekko-Kagi Poison
Prologue - A Tempest Untamed
Prologue - One Tale Ends, One Begins
Memories (Of Dreams & Demons)
Memories Table of Contents 2019
Preface: Love
Part I - Child
Wings of Paper
The Door
Naoko
Alia
A Wall
The Kiss
A Puzzle
The Realm
The Boy's Scout
Last Party
Man of Shadow
The Quest
Preface - Part II
Part II - Youth
Happy Birthday
When Fairy Tales Fail
The Map
Darkness or Flight
A Forced Hand
Naoko's Sadness
Chasing Waterfalls
Moloch's Entrance
Remember
Childhood's End
An Unwanted Journey
Preface - Part III
Part III - Early Adolescent
The Forest
Training
Bullies
The Mangy Dog (Part 1)
The Mangy Dog (Part 2)
A Promise Rekindled
Remember the Puzzle
A Bus Shadowed
A Quest Resumed
An Enemy
Ogarato
Found in Flame
To Vetusta
A Kitten Uncaged
A Realm Abandoned
A Picture Paints a Million Words
Foundations
Friend and Foe
The First Roll Call
The Feral Hunt
A Motorbike Raid
Reunited
Lyra
Vicente
A Spark Within the Darkness
This Isn't Real
Lord of Shadow
Hope's End
Crucifixion
Preface - Part IV
Part IV - Late Adolescent
The Tomb
A Dying Light's Rage
Chapter 47 - The Dark In Between
Chapter 48 - Railway Tracks
Chapter 49 - Argyle
Chapter 50 - Numbing Pain
Chapter 51 - Beelzebub's Bubble
Chapter 52 - Born in Blood
Chapter 53 - Party Animals
Chapter 54 - Me.. Too.. ?
Chapter 55 - The Insanity of the Sane
Chapter 56 - Wrong Role Models
Chapter 57 - Toxic Revolt
Chapter 58 - Judgement
Chapter 59 - The Cleansing of Argyle
Chapter 60 - Flight from Argyle
Preface - Part V
Part V - Cusp of Adulthood
Chapter 61 - Feet Placed Upon a Wrong Path
Chapter 62 - Danger's Name is Death
Chapter 63 - Hide and Seek
Chapter 64 - Understanding
Chapter 65 - Meeting
Chapter 66 - Fireplace
Chapter 67 - Driving
Chapter 68 - Nightclub
Chapter 69 - Brothers in Harm
Chapter 70 - The Chase
Chapter 71 - Underground
Chapter 72 - Let's Fight
Chapter 73 - To Flee
Chapter 74 - Blades
Chapter 75 - Naoko Sharpened
Chapter 76 - A Rose
Chapter 77 - Lotus
Chapter 78 - The Lover's Ceremony
Chapter 79 - Can Dreams Heal?
Chapter 80 - Midnight's Concert
Chapter 81 - The Moment the Realm Was Born
Chapter 82 - The Gift of Power
Chapter 83 - The Battle of Ogarato
Chapter 84 - Eligos' Eruption
Chapter 85 - The Lying King
Chapter 86 - Dividing a Prime (Our Childish Nightmare)
Chapter 87 - Finally a Fairytale
Part VI - Young Adult
Chapter 88 - A Boy Without a Home
Chapter 89 - A University Uprising
Chapter 90 - Beacon
Chapter 91 - Love
Chapter 92 - Vetusta Snuffed
Chapter 93 - The Flames of Fury
Chapter 94 - Legends (Rule Your Demons)
Part VII - Adult
Chapter 95 - Poison of the Realm
Chapter 96 - Pain
Chapter 97 - Heartbreak
Chapter 98 - The Realm's Mirror
Chapter 99 - The Fall
Chapter 100 - The Garden
Chapter 101 - A Fight
Chapter 102 - Rest
Chapter 103 - Returned
Chapter 104 - The Past
Chapter 105 - The Black Wedding
Chapter 106 - Sweet Dreams All Lead to Me
Chapter 107 - The Stranger
Chapter 108 - Enter the Ballroom
Memories Notes
Madness (Of Dance & Discord)
Preface - Pain
Preface - Madness
Prologue - Of Dance
Part VIII - The First Night
Chapter 109 - The Dawn
Chapter 110 - Memories
Chapter 111 - The Mirrored Unite
Chapter 112 - Project 'Chivalry'
Chapter 113 - The Girl 'Neath the Blossom Trees
Chapter 114 - And So the Chase Begins
Chapter 115 - Club Sin
Chapter 116 - The Underground Hustle
Chapter 117 - A Space Apart
Chapter 118 - Pandemonium
Chapter 119 - Last Dance
Chapter 120 - The Woman in the Hannya Mask
Part IX - The Second Night
Chapter 121 - Black Puzzle Pieces I
Chapter 112 - Nightmares
Chapter 123 - Developing a Destiny
Chapter 124 - Only Death
Chapter 125 - Very Insane Problem
Chapter 126 - The Wardens
Chapter 127 - Muse
Chapter 128 - The Realm
Chapter 129 - Heralds of Peace
Chapter 130 - Festival of the Stars
Chapter 131 - Raiding Party
Chapter 132 - Prince Harming
Chapter 133 - Darkness Makes the Heart Grow Stronger
Chapter 134 - Wrath
Chapter 135 - I Watched You Change
Chapter 136 - Kitsune Tai Hannya
Chapter 137 - To Drive Apart
Part X - The Third Night
Chapter 138 - Black Puzzle Pieces II
Chapter 139 - The Ravages of Time
Chapter 140 - The Information Age
Chapter 141 - Unlock the Ladder
Chapter 142 - TAS2R38
Chapter 143 - Fall of the White Knight
Chapter 144 - You Three
Chapter 145 - Breaking Feathers
Chapter 146 - An Eternal Arena
Chapter 147 - Napeta Cataria
Chapter 148 - The Rabbit
Chapter 149 - Blóðugr Örn
Chapter 150 - The Turning Tide
Chapter 151 - The Road South
Chapter 152 - Pride's Fatality
Chapter 153 - A World of Stone
Part XI - The Fourth Night
Chapter 154 - Black Puzzle Pieces III
Chapter 155 - Golden Delights
Chapter 156 - Mate
Chapter 157 - Laser the Past, Ink the Future
Chapter 158 - Madness
Chapter 159 - We Used to Jump Rope
Chapter 160 - Chaos is a Ladder
Chapter 161 - A Man's Dead Friend
Chapter 162 - Ose
Chapter 163 - Morax's Arena
Chapter 164 - Battle of the Daisy Fields
Chapter 165 - Brand of Hatred
Chapter 166 - Dead Men Tell Mad Tales
Chapter 167 - The Whole Stage is a Circus
Chapter 168 - Genocide
Chapter 169 - Plucking Peacocks
Chapter 170 - A Superyacht Sunk
Part XII - The Fifth Night
Chapter 171 - Black Puzzle Pieces IV
Chapter 172 - Tinder for the Fire
Chapter 173 - Our Sickness Wills These Poison Pills
Chapter 174 - Money, Power, Women
Chapter 175 - The Divine Wind
Chapter 176 - The Thirty-Third Year
Chapter 177 - Suicide Squad
Chapter 178 - Only Power is Real
Chapter 179 - The Final Piece of the Puzzle
Chapter 180 - One Final Tryst
Chapter 181 - The Culling of Ao
Chapter 182 - The Square Table
Chapter 183 - What Must Be Done
Chapter 184 - Dematerialization
Chapter 185 - Checkmate
Chapter 186 - Do Unto Others as You Will Have Done Unto You
Chapter 187 - In the Shadow of the Beast
Chapter 188 - Murder
Chapter 189 - The Face of Treachery
Chapter 190 - Worms Beneath the Light
Chapter 191 - Skin Deep
Chapter 192 - Fury of the Kaiken
Chapter 193 - Revenge of a Pirate King
Part XIII - The Sixth Night
Chapter 194 - Black Puzzle Pieces V
Chapter 195 - The Grand Masquerade (When in Rome)
Chapter 196 - Oblivion
Chapter 197 - Throne of Madness
Chapter 198 - An Introduction
Chapter 199 - A Spinster's Tale
Chapter 200 - Manifest
Chapter 201 - The Girl With the Hazel Eye
Chapter 202 - Lost
Chapter 203 - Primal Nature
Chapter 204 - Light the Gas
Chapter 205 - Insanity Throned
Chapter 206 - Rise of the Oni-Dāsu
Part XIV - The Seventh Night
Chapter 207 - What Happens When People Open Their Hearts?
Chapter 208 - Last Wall to Fall
Chapter 209 - Forget
Chapter 210 - Slaughter and Sacrifice
Chapter 211 - An Unseen Beacon
Chapter 212 - Ose's Insight
Chapter 213 - Storm the Church
For We Have Become Death
Chapter 214 - Found Within a Nightmare
Chapter 215 - Killing Monsters
Chapter 216 - Maddening Revelations
Chapter 217 - The Shower
Chapter 218 - Tear Down the Church
Chapter 219 - When Dreams Become Demons
Chapter 220 - Repress the Death (So I Lit a Fire)
Epilogue - Pirates of Discord
Madness Notes
Manifest (Of Death & Destiny)
Preface - Manifest
Prologue - Suicide
Chapter 221 - Torimodosu
Chapter 222 - Runaway
Chapter 223 - Mount Everwhite
Chapter 224 - Glimpses of Dreams
Chapter 225 - Kon’yoku
Chapter 226 - Koi no Yokan
Chapter 227 - Ikigai (Tales of the Realm)
Chapter 228 - Kawaakari
Chapter 229 - Eyes Up, Broken Crown
Chapter 230 - Glimmer of the Morning Star
Chapter 231 - Northern Shore
Chapter 232 - Pilgrim
Every Spark a Potential Manifestation
Letting Kittens Claw
Part XI - Water
Chapter 233 - Izakaya
Chapter 234 - Kaiken's Audition
Chapter 235 - Mischief
Chapter 236 - Birth of Shadow
Chapter 237 - Utangard
Chapter 238 - Summer's Exile
Chapter 239 - Jū
Chapter 240 - Ichi-go Ichi-e
Chapter 241 - Yume De Aimashou
Chapter 242 - A Dessert with Destiny
Chapter 243 - Fun
Chapter 244 - Shinrinyoku
Chapter 245 - Breathe
Chapter 246 - The Thousand Year City
Chapter 247 - Kintsukuroi
Chapter 248 - Training
Chapter 249 - Tenko
Chapter 250 - A Kaiken in a Kimono
Chapter 251 - A Kaiken, No Kimono
Chapter 252 - A Katana's Purpose
Chapter 253: Igo
Chapter 254 - Save the Boy
Chapter 255 - Found in Kyoto
Chapter 256 - A Shinkansen to Akatsuki
Chapter 257 - Ōmagatoki
Chapter 258 - Akatsuki Drift
Chapter 259 - The Battle of Sukaitsurī
Chapter 260 - Rōnin tai no Oni-Daasu
Chapter 261 - Kill the Dream
Chapter 262 - Loops and Paradoxes
Chapter 263 - And So the Chase Continues
Chapter 264 - The Pirate King
Chapter 265 - Taverns and their Tales
Chapter 266 - Port Pandemonium
Chapter 267 - Ryū
Chapter 268 - Faithless
Chapter 269 - Mastering the Craft
Chapter 270 - X Marks the Spot
Chapter 271 - High Seas
Chapter 272 - Archipelago
Chapter 273 - A Child's Dream
Chapter 274 - The Fountain
Chapter 275 - Tribulation
Chapter 276 - Whirlpool
Chapter 277 - Consequences
Chapter 278 - Stranded
Chapter 279 - Land of the Rising Sun
Chapter 280 - Siege
Chapter 281 - Shinkansen Conductor
Chapter 282 - Kyozaurs
Chapter 283 - Rise of the Black Dragon
Chapter 284 - I Am the Storm
Chapter 285 - King of the Seas
Chapter 286 - Judgement Bay
Chapter 287 - Fountain Falls
Chapter 288 - Ryū Riders
Chapter 289 - From Rōnin to Daimyō
Toxic Municipality - An Oni-Daasu's Iron Fist
A Demon Bends the Knee
Chapter 290 - Kyokujitsu-Ki Unfurled
Part XII - Shadow
Chapter 290.5 - The Conquistadors Come
Chapter 291 - Nyx
Chapter 292 - King of Shadow
Chapter 293 - Pilgrimage
Chapter 294 - Ygdrassil Healed
Chapter 295 - Eros
Chapter 296 - War
Chapter 297 - A Bloody Border
Chapter 298 - The Siege of Beacon
Chapter 299 - Demonic Disharmony
Chapter 300 - The Ranger
Chapter 301 - A Lead Plate Helm and a Feather Headdress
Chapter 302 - Tea Time
Chapter 303 - Sanity's Ruin
Part XIII - Fire
Chapter 304 - A Likely Hero
Chapter 305 - Kenrokuen
Chapter 306 - Mono no Aware
Chapter 307 - Treaty of Peace
Chapter 308 - Amaterasu
Chapter 309 - A Fight to End All Fights
Chapter 310 - Oni Taiji
Chapter 311 - Strike One
Chapter 312 - The Kneeling of Moloch
Chapter 313 - And The Meek Shall Inherit
Chapter 314 - Valley of the Kings
Chapter 315 - A Demon King's Defiance
Chapter 316 - Gnosis
Chapter 317 - Pierce the Veil
Chapter 318 - Right Eye, Left Eye, Third Eye
Chapter 319 - Lilith's Torment
Chapter 320 - The Walls
Chapter 321 - Beacon's Peak
Chapter 322 - But a Shade
Chapter 323 - Hate Unmatched
Chapter 324 - Memory of Shadow
Chapter 325 - The Only Real Destiny is Death
Chapter 326 - No Single Man
Chapter 327 - The Void
Chapter 328 - Lilith's Lair
Chapter 329 - Oni-Daasu tai no Kōtei
Chapter 330 - Death of Shadow
Chapter 331 - The Kaiken's Purpose
Part XIV - Light
Chapter 332 - A Tragic End
Chapter 333 - Still a Better Love Story
Chapter 334 - Antidote
Chapter 335 - Reborn
Chapter 336 - A King and Queen
Chapter 337 - And Just Like That
Chapter 338 - A Knight of The Realm
Chapter 339 - The Summit (Our Childish Dream)
Chapter 340 - One Ring to Have it All
Chapter 341 - Shinra Banshō
Chapter 342 - The Fleet
Fin - The False Prophet
Manifest Notes
Notes, Leftovers, Disorders, Stories, Alternatives
Arc Notes for 2018
Synopsis Draft Submission
Book List
The Tale of the Shadow
The Fruits of Labour
Where Laws Don't Protect Animals
Manifest Outro - Memories
The Stranger
Facing Beelzebub
Gaijin
Aurum's Typhoon
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