Razochita

Employee Review (AustinCreasy)

Osato

Osato sat in a wooden chair in the center of a large basement completely nude and surrounded by five other people.

Osato's face was brutally beaten and his left eye was swollen closed his long hair had been taken out of its topknot and feel sloppily onto his shoulders. The full tattooed body suit Osato wore with its black oceans and bright yellow sea serpents were covered in drops of blood falling from his face and the strip of unmarked skin that ran down the middle of Osato's torso had been covered in blood dripping from his mouth. In front of Osato stood Shuntaro a healer who came to Razochita with Osato's group. "Well Osato." said Shuntaro as he stared at Osato speaking Yampuran "I'd say you got the shit beat out of you."

Osato began to make an angry expression but stopped due to half his face being gripped by a sharp pain and unable to truly create an expression. Shuntaro leaned down to look at Osato's face and said "Before you left tonight you were a fairly handsome man that scar on your neck makes you look, tough women, like that you see. But wow that northman did a number on you, I don't think you'll be seeing many women approaching you for awhile."

Shuntaro turned to look to the wall on Osato's right when the woman Datta from Ruptara leaned against the wall. Datta wore her jet black hair in a bun surrounded by a decorative silver ring. The reddish-brown uttariya and antariya Datta was wearing was a similar color to her skin. Leaning on the wall next to her was Datta's shield, the shield was almost two feet in diameter, made of steel, and covered in bronze Ruptaran scripts surrounding a bronze symbol of a lotus flower. On a belt around Datta's waist sat two chakram war discs and a Talwar sword.

Shuntaro still speaking Yampuran asked Datta "What do you think?"

Datta speaking the common tongue said "You know I don't speak Yampuran. What are you saying to me?"

Shuntaro switched to speaking the common tongue. "I'm saying Osato's face is pretty fucked now, he might have trouble with the ladies now."

Datta turned to look at Osato "Sorry silence don't take it personally, but I wouldn't fuck you even if your pecker was bigger."

Shuntaro and Datta shared a laugh as Osato clenched his fists. The two laughing stopped as a soft voice from the end of the basement said "Silence" in the Yampuran. The three in the middle of the room turned to look at the origin of the voice.

The voice came from an old Yampuran man who was called boss Kozaburo who was sitting behind a large wooden desk at the end of the basement. Boss Kozaburo wore a set of black robes with gold trimming and graying black trimmed hair sat on his head. Next to boss Kozaburo one either side stood his lieutenants Kyosei and Kai. Both Kyosei and Kai wore identical black robes except with no gold trimming. The two men were nearly seven feet tall and close to four hundred pounds. Next to Kyosei and Kai sat large wooden Kanabo clubs covered in metal rivets.

Boss Kozaburo looked to Osato's beaten face and said: "come here."

Osato struggled as he stepped up out of his chair and walked towards boss Kozaburo's desk finally kneeling down in front of the desk.

"How bad is he?" asked boss Kozaburo looking towards Shuntaro.

Shuntaro stepped towards boss Kozaburo's desk and said "His jaw is broken and he's missing thirteen of his teeth. His nose is also broken and as you can see his left eye is swollen closed. Also, his skull is partially cracked. He won't be able to see out of the eye for a little and will need stitches for the cut on his head. In my opinion, I think he should have some false teeth put in as well."

"Is he facing death?"

"Only if his wounds get infected, he's tough, he survived getting his throat slit, he'll survive this beating."

"Place his hands on the desk."

Shuntaro stepped away from Osato as Kyosei and Kai grabbed Osato's arms by the wrists holding them on the desk. Boss Kozaburo removed a dagger from his robes and cut through Osato's right pinky just below his finger nail. Osato pulled back but Kyosei and Kai held his hands onto the desk. Boss Kozaburo grabbed Osato's hair and placed his dagger against the swollen lump over Osato's eye and split open the lump.

As the blood began to pour from Osato's face Kyosei and Kai let go of his wrists. Osato fell onto the ground curling himself into the fetal position and holding his bleeding face and finger.

"You failed us Osato." said boss Kozaburo "explain yourself."

Shuntaro turned back to Datta "He needs his pen and pad."

Datta walked to where Osato's robes sat in a pile and searched through the robes until she found the pocket where Osato kept the pad he used to communicate. As Datta walked to where Odato was lying he sat back up onto his knees and grabbed the pad from Datta.

As Osato began writing in hiragana a drop of blood fell from his face and splattered onto the pad. Osato moved his head to one side and began writing around the blood spatter. When Osato finished writing he handed the pad to boss Kozaburo.

Boss Kozaburo finished reading the note and looked over it to Osato. "Is this true?" asked boss Kozaburo.

Osato nodded his head.

Boss Kozaburo placed the note on his desk "This northman, This Adaar he was followed by a great wolf and he snorted a powder before he fought?"

Osato nodded his head again.

Boss Kozaburo stepped from behind his desk and stood in front of Osato. "Stand boy."

Osato stood to look boss Kozaburo in the eye. "I apologize." said boss Kozaburo to Osato.

Boss Kozaburo turned back to Shuntaro "Translate what I'm about to say into the common tongue I want Datta to hear this."

Shuntaro nodded and began to translate as boss Kozaburo spoke.

Boss Kozaburo began "As you may know I fought in the savage wars. I saw a man like this Adaar, he was followed by a bear, a bear that tore apart my friends and allies. This man was a berserker he snorted a powder that sent him into a blinding rage and he and his bear fought with more savagery than any creature with any amount of goodness in them is capable of. They killed twenty-three good men before they were cut down. I have heard those northmen called berserkers they consider those beasts the reincarnated souls of their ancestors come to guide them on earth. I saw I saw the truth those beasts are dark oni here to destroy any goodness where they find it and those who call themselves berserker invite evil yokai into themselves whenever they snort that dark powder."

Boss Kozaburo grabbed Osato's shoulder "You survived single combat with one of those demons which is truly impressive. I am not a good man Osato, and neither are you we are yakuza, we are criminals but if we can eliminate a darkness like this berserker from the face of Mair than it is our duty to humanity to do so. Take tonight and tomorrow to heal then help Datta find this berserker and kill him. Killing this Adaar will get us back to Yampura but it will also help humanity."

Osato bowed to boss Kozaburo as Shuntaro grabbed his arm and lead him out of the basement. Boss Kozaburo looked to Datta and said in Yampuran "I do not speak Rupskirt." Kai began to translate what boss Kozaburo was saying into the common tongue.

"I will not lower myself by speaking the common tongue but I must tell you, this is of the utmost importance. This Adaar must be killed but no matter how great of a warrior you are I can almost promise you, you cannot kill this northman in single combat. For now, we must cut off his supply as much as we can. I know of a smuggling operation they are based outside of the city on a farm I believe. This operation has a northwoman as part of their membership. This leads me to believe they are smuggling moonflower and reine moss. Destroy this operation and we may slow down this northman and you will be rewarded. I will make sure no yakuza sell to any northmen. If you and Osato are successful in this endeavor and we return to Yampura you will be the first foreigner and the first woman welcomed to my organization."

Datta turned to Kai "Does being a full yakuza pay better?"

"Substantially," answered Kai

"Then Adaar the berserker is a dead man."