A letter for Yasuki Ryoichi
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 6:16 pm
A letter written in blocky kanji
Kid,
Just got the news from Masato that you're coming to court this winter. That's good. It'd be a pain to have had to write all those letters and then found out that nothing came of it, not mentioning the bruise to the ego. Get enough of those around these parts.
But since you're coming, I'd thought I'd toss you a bit of that advice we old coots are famous for.
1) The Scorpion really do gather information all the time. Otomo, too. They just sit their with notebooks in their heads recording everything to use later. Be cool around 'em, but they're not the real enemy. That brings up the next point:
2) People get to be your enemy a couple different ways at court. There's getting in the way of something you need (that's pretty common), competing with you when you want to unload something (that's also pretty common), there's people just looking to pick a fight to show off (not as common as you'd think, but it's there), and then there's people that'll just annoy the heck out of you. That's the most common thing of all. You've got to know the difference between an enemy you can smack around and an enemy you can't. The biggest one in my experience? Look around at their friends. A lot of time you'll be surprised who's hand's on the return stroke. Don't get caught looking.
That's it for now. My writing hand's getting sore and I've got snot-nosed little yoriki to train up on killing. Write me back if you've got questions.
Hida Kozume
Rikugunshokan of the 1st Hida Army (ret.)
Ruby Champion
Kid,
Just got the news from Masato that you're coming to court this winter. That's good. It'd be a pain to have had to write all those letters and then found out that nothing came of it, not mentioning the bruise to the ego. Get enough of those around these parts.
But since you're coming, I'd thought I'd toss you a bit of that advice we old coots are famous for.
1) The Scorpion really do gather information all the time. Otomo, too. They just sit their with notebooks in their heads recording everything to use later. Be cool around 'em, but they're not the real enemy. That brings up the next point:
2) People get to be your enemy a couple different ways at court. There's getting in the way of something you need (that's pretty common), competing with you when you want to unload something (that's also pretty common), there's people just looking to pick a fight to show off (not as common as you'd think, but it's there), and then there's people that'll just annoy the heck out of you. That's the most common thing of all. You've got to know the difference between an enemy you can smack around and an enemy you can't. The biggest one in my experience? Look around at their friends. A lot of time you'll be surprised who's hand's on the return stroke. Don't get caught looking.
That's it for now. My writing hand's getting sore and I've got snot-nosed little yoriki to train up on killing. Write me back if you've got questions.
Hida Kozume
Rikugunshokan of the 1st Hida Army (ret.)
Ruby Champion