13th of Summer, 5859
Mount Curry, Casamonu / Azdavay
Clouds. Rain. Even more rain. A torrent of slaves. John Brown. They were all heading down, and down, slowly rolling over t...
2023-05-19 07:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Night of lightlessness
One’s eyes don’t see too afar
Actually, it’s day
Licorice was once again wandering near the Misty Lake. Not because the head maid had requested her to bring water, that problem had sorted itself out thanks to the...
2023-05-11 18:44:09 +0000 UTC View PostTonight was a beautiful night like any other. Scant rays of moonlight shimmered through the clouds, resulting in quite an enchanting scene if one were to stop and look around in the rain. Crickets chirped in a manner that stood between a chorus and straight u...
2023-05-04 10:53:18 +0000 UTC View Post9th of Summer,...
2023-04-25 15:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post(UPDATE: Added a bit more text to the end.)
Ayomide had woken up today, on the wrong side of the bed to be exact. Somebody had left one of the windows open in the barracks and the breeze had frozen her back stiff during the n...
2023-04-21 08:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The hell’s an oni?
Our heroine does not know
She’s too drunk to learn
“Ah, the lake’s beautiful today, isn’t it Sakuya?”
“It is beautiful as usual, mistress.
The head maid and mistress sipped their black tea in unis...
2023-04-21 08:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostAll was not well on Baha’s part. All was not well.
“Your cousin was executed, Your Excellency, I get your frustration…” However, he still had to get down on his knees and suck on the boots of his rightful liege. “…but, please, those...
2023-04-13 20:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostAnother day, another round of sweeping.
Licorice, through her newly gained experience in thorough drudgery, had slowly come to understand why so many geriatric old farts resided in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. This was a changeably static place, of variab...
2023-04-13 20:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostWith their introductions to Brown done, Kyauta and Vaiz left the room to find accommodate themselves with the rest of the freemen, and to also make arrangements for their accommodation. Ayomide went out to help them, leaving the old acquaintances Brown and Tu...
2023-04-05 12:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostMany umbrellas
Lost without a second thought
Never recovered
“It’s spring!”
…It’s pretty late to announce that. Licorice watched as a fairy flew by, announcing the coming of spring to the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Th...
2023-04-05 12:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostToday was another beautiful day around the Misty Lake. Despite Gensokyo entering summer, the area around the lake stayed cool as usual thanks to the mist covering it. Youkai would commonly come to the lake to cool off and socialize, meaning that summer wasn...
2023-04-02 15:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostMy PC is up and running again, chapters will be back on the regular schedule.
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Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way....
2023-03-31 12:34:01 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR: My PC has gone kaputt, there might not be any new preview chapters uploaded next week. I'll release two preview chapters to compensate if such a thing does happen. Below are the ramblings of someone who has gotten slightly mad (and emotional) while trying to fix their PC.
Every beautiful things has its end.
My hard disk, too, was a beautiful thing. As of today, it lays in life support, and soon it shall fly up to Hard Disk Heaven to meet its manufacturer.
Soon, ...
2023-03-25 17:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post5th of Summer, 5859
Casamonu, Empire of Gemeinplatz
An interesting letter had arrived at Sir Leon’s desk today. He calmly read its contents, not sure whether to be happy or frustrated with the news.
“…and, Your Excellency...
2023-03-22 19:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Refined into full sharpness
Let us trade blows
Today was not a special day, for Licorice or anyone else.
“Sweeping, sweeping, this is a whole lot of sweeping to do while making up a tune…”
Going on her busi...
2023-03-19 18:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This chapter is supposed to be read after Chapter 7.
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Back on Earth, Jacob hadn’t been a common attendant of his local church. He thought that churches in Florida were too ‘woke’, so he preferred spending his time on Sunday by ranting online about how Western civilization was collapsing or whatever.
However, things had changed when he had found himself on Gemeinplatz. The Temple of the Divine here was, according to Jacob, a fine establishment ...
2023-03-16 21:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostAround town travels
Whispers of who’s here today
Maids most contrasting
Today was a special day for Licorice.
It was an ordinary day for everyone else though, so things in Gensokyo moved on as usual. It was the height of spring, w...
2023-03-16 05:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post2nd of Summer, 5859
Former Estate of Sir Algernon (new name still pending), Azdavay / Casamonu
Lady Leila was resting in her bedroom, reading a book about the wonders that laid on Earth. She was softly rocking back on forth on a chai...
2023-03-16 05:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Ye who art divine
Protect us from the youkai
She is really drunk
Gensokyo stands separated from the world, since around a hundred-and-fifty years ago. A barrier of common sense stands between the fantastical inside and the mundane outside, and...
2023-03-12 06:41:37 +0000 UTC View Post
From knowledge comes power; with power comes responsibility. The mistress had two of those, the last one was a thing that she wasn’t concerned about in general.
To attain the vast knowledge needed for great power the mistress had built, over a hundred years ago, the greatest library in all of Gensokyo. Of course, this library was not a public one, and only a select few from the mansion were a...
2023-03-07 19:24:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the night of the day that the freemen had held their council. The debate had raged on for a long, long time, after they had dissolved. So much so that no other work had been done for the day, except for some slaves making preparations to depart to Zon’...
2023-03-07 19:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post
On the edge of the Forest of Magic laid a curious shop named Kourindou, operated by an equally curious man. The owner, a certain half-youkai half-human named Rinnosuke Morichika, was a collector and dealer of items that fell in to Gensokyo from the Outside World.
While that might seem amazing, and one might think that such a shop might be popular, it was in fact the opposite. Selling a random a...
2023-03-05 22:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty excited to get working on this one.
2023-03-04 18:04:26 +0000 UTC View Post
“Ah, that felt great… Only if I had a hairdryer.” Licorice did her best to wipe off the last strongholds of water holding onto her hair. It was nigh impossible to completely dry the lush jungles of keratin that lay atop her head, but she did her best with a towel anyways.
As recommended by the head maid, she had made sure to prioritize taking a bath. The bathroom was in the basement of th...
2023-03-03 17:57:42 +0000 UTC View Post
“You think she’s alive?”
“She’s been laying here for a day. Do humans sleep that long?”
“…Wait, she’s just opened her eyes!”
Licorice Meidou woke up, yawned, and found herself being surrounded by a gang of little maids at her bedside. Most of them were obser...
2023-03-02 19:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post
“People! Folks! Gather around, gather around. No pushing, please.” Brown and Ayomide stood in the middle of a large crowd that had formed in the for...
2023-03-01 13:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the first chapter of the side-project that I've just announced (it has a title now: 'Ordinary Maid, Extraordinary Realm'). I plan on releasing this chapter publicly in around two weeks.
I'll only be working on this project if I have free time after writing the weekly John Brown Isekai: taking a step back and temporarily focusing on something helps a writer to not burn out. So, don't worry, the schedule won't be affected at all and weekly John Brown Isekai will keep coming out at...
2023-02-26 21:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
TL;DR: I'm going to be spending my free time (a.k.a. time where I'm not writing the John Brown Isekai) to sometimes write a slice-of-life Touhou fanfic that I've been planning for some time. The first chapter will release sometime next month. The schedule of the John Brown Isekai won't be affected in any way, shape or form; you can safely ignore this announcement if you're not interested in this new work.
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In the forgotten lands of Gensokyo lay many a fantast...
2023-02-26 15:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty excited to begin working on these, I've only focused on writing the chapters up until now without working on the images. These are in no particular order; and I'll be updating this post as I make more.
UPDATE (25/06/2023): Updated to add all illustrations up to chapter 26.
2023-02-21 19:27:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Lady Leila was resting in her bedroom, reading a book about the wonders that laid on Earth. She was softly rocking back o...
2023-02-16 18:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post
