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Who Keeps Kyokami Now by NEP

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Who Keeps Kyokami Now

Midieval Bardic Folk Song

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In Kyokami's valour, where the cedar boughs bow low,
Thirteen houses gather where cold winds sow.
Across the straits, the lordly fleets brought chains,
Market cries cut by the iron of launch campaign.
Banners hung like braziers in the town square glow,
Hearthlight trembling where the frightened children go.
Young Kirin Kyuubi with a fox's gentle eye,
Four houses pledged to his vow, let blood not dye the sky.
He would barter silence for the safety of kin,
Peace at any cost he pled, lest more lives thin.
Yet mothers whispered of men taken in the night,
Of salted oaths, of barges bound and torches bright.
Four for Kirin, four for Tetsu, five hold breath and wait,
A scale that tips like tempered steel upon the gate.
One voice begs mercy, one swears to break the prow,
Which way shall Kyokami bow? By blade or by bow?
Who keeps Kyokami now? Shall we bind the chains?
Or break them with a brow? By blade or by bow?
Let the chosen answer how? By blade or by bow?
Who keeps Kyokami now?
Tetsu Yamazaki, the white Oni of field and fen,
Four houses raised his war song, iron sung by men.
A hero of the border, blood upon his tatter still,
He spoke of shackled kin and ships that choke the real.
I know the price of battle, each grave a lantern snuffed.
But I will cleave the fetters ere the last heart's light is stuffed.
Kirin offers linen words to heal the bleeding seam,
Tetsu calls for sharpened truth and not the dream.
One fears the drum, one fears the tear, both truth and how.
And all the houses ponder now, by blade or by bow?
Who keeps Kyokami now? Shall we bind the chains?
Or break them with a brow? By blade or by bow?
Let the chosen answer how? By blade or by bow?
Who keeps Kyokami now?
Torches gutter, banners fall in a hush of straw and moon.
The votes are counted, thirteen names beneath the rune.
A hush, a clang, Tetsu crowned with chain, iron and oak.
The commons roar, the old hymn breaks like smoke.
I take this crown, he says, voice splintered yet about.
I take this charge, though I know each war costs a shroud.
I do not love the sword, I love the child unbound.
And I will bring the captor's ledger tumbling to the ground.
By blade or by bow? Tetsu keeps Kyokami now.
He lifts the standard high, and the small folk make their bow.
By blade or by bow? Let the northern fleets take power.
By blade or by bow? Tetsu keeps Kyokami now.
The people line the causeway with bread and battered shields.
They sing old trading songs, they mend the market field.
Some weep for Kirin's mercy, some cheer the oni's hand.
Fate's coin flipped in the hearth, cast forth across the land.
And in the taverns, bards recount in brazen tones
how a nation chose its keeper under cedar thrones.
So let the story ride from hill to fisher's cove.
Let the minstrels hum a vows kept, and of the love
remember both the fox who beg.
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