Summon | Rider, Kyokutei Bakin! Pleased to make your acquaintance! Perhaps those who know me know solely of The Eight Dog Chronicles! Perhaps those who know me not identically know solely of The Eight Dog Chronicles! My perspicuous novels escaped my hands and gained a life of their own! …Yet, I am the one made a Servant? Outré… Most outré! |
Level up 1 | Greatly beholden by your palliation. |
Level up 2 | Aye, congratulatable! |
Ascension 1 | Oyo, yet another outré hap. So the Ascension of a Saint Graph happens in this fashion. I feel more consolidated in this pristine raiment. |
Ascension 2 | A successive Ascension? Joyous. By the way, why must I, in the capacity of an elderly man, still bedight these accessories facsimile of a dog's ears and tail? "The ears are to hear better"? R-right, I see the logic in that. "The tail is just because it's cute"? Opprobrious! |
Battle Start 1 | Survey my metronomic swordsmanship! |
Battle Start 2 | Without ado, I commence taming the pen! |
Battle Start 3 | The pen torrentially epitomizes one Kyokutei Bakin! Register that name! |
Skill 1 | Phew, kuwabara kuwabara.1 |
Skill 2 | Be indefatigably provident. |
Skill 3 | You posture with such coxcombry. |
Skill 4 | Crane, tortoise, crane, tortoise.1 |
Command Card 1 | Comprehended! |
Command Card 2 | Concurred! |
Command Card 3 | Zounds! |
Noble Phantasm Card 1 | Confucian academia is the present trend! |
Noble Phantasm Card 2 | Life is nonpareil! |
Noble Phantasm Card 3 | Look the ignoramus in the eye! |
Noble Phantasm Card 4 | Scamper as you may, but abscond you shan't! |
Attack 1 | Swift as prajna's arrow! |
Attack 2 | Eih! Ouh! Taken! |
Attack 3 | Purl like whirlsand! |
Attack 4 | Shinzen Gejutsu: Mirthful Butterfly.2 |
Attack 5 | Stand abaft, camphor laurel! 3 |
Attack 6 | I quest you to direct your inquiries first at my blade. |
Attack 7 | Easy as shooting a bird snared in wirework! |
Extra Attack 1 | My kith, emerge and engage. |
Extra Attack 2 | Will we earn réclame or obloquy? The answer lies in the dogs' paws. |
Extra Attack 3 | Zowie, the sinewy came to our assuagement. |
Extra Attack 4 | Douzetsu, Daikaku, Genpachi, Sousuke, Kobungo, Keno, Shino, and Shinbeeeeeeeei! |
Noble Phantasm 1 | Justice, Duty, Honor, Knowledge, Loyalty, Faith, Wisdom, and Brotherhood. Eight orbs convene in the sky. Watch the honesty of man split cloud and invoke wind. Moonlight riving the everlasting darkness unfurls our thruway. Nansou Satomi Hakkenden! |
Noble Phantasm 2 | Justice, Duty, Honor, Knowledge, Loyalty, Faith, Wisdom, and Brotherhood. Eight lights whisk the heavens. Hence my heart is filled with valor. I am as blessed as rain is sodden. Nansou Satomi Hakkenden! |
Damage 1 | Willow branches never split under the weight of the snow! |
Damage 2 | Nohah! |
Damage 3 | I was... mortally heedless. |
Damage 4 | Nugatory-! |
Defeat 1 | Fare-thee-well! |
Defeat 2 | A most infelicitous failure to my duty. |
Defeat 3 | I have no words to salvage my dignity. |
Defeat 4 | Good-by. Pardon. |
Victory 1 | Most honestly redoubtable! Congratulatable, congratulatable! |
Victory 2 | As such, the case comes to a close! Laughters! |
Victory 3 | Have you learned? The move of my pen disaffirms the evil ways and divulges righteousness. |
Bond 1 | To simply describe the Myousenjishou I hourly make mention of: "names and natures do often agree". To rephrase it, it means a person is granted destinies from heaven. Likewise, your name limns your fate, Master. Take the moment to deliberate on its meaning. |
Bond 2 | I sound categorically toploftical. My punctilious vocabulary is demeritous to casual conversation. I am already used to these barbs spoken behind my back. Mending one's natural disposition is demanding labor! Ha-ha-ha-ha... But I must admonish my faults, lest I'll be presuming on Master's kindliness. |
Bond 3 | Rustling goes the pen. Yes, this is a journal. I am documenting day-to-day without falter, as a man of the Takizawa family must. As my Master, you are also family to me, meaning your perusing is no bother. Even if you weren't, what I wrote here is trivial matters, wholly contrary to my hair-raising, heart-throbbing literature. Things such as loci I proceed to, those who I crossed with, minutiae of my meals, purchased goods, weather, or the state of my birds. Nowadays it has been fixedly about the mischief of my Canine Warriors and the occupations of my Master... but I mustn't fixate solely on these dovish occurrences. Hahahahaha! |
Bond 4 | Putative to the first glance as it may be, this habitus belongs to Michi. She's is wed to my son Souhaku, and the name Michi is one I styled her with at the ceremony. Michi is one woman I incontestably burdened overmuch. As age took the light of my sight, The Eight Dog Chronicles would have never been completed weren't for her becoming my new eyes and penning hands. For such, I'm agreed with the significance of me manifesting in her physicality. My apologies to Michi but we shall share the litter once more. |
Bond 5 | I once forsook the importance of my samurai family, but not that I finally met a lord worth attending, I believe I finally reacquired my warrior feather. Furthermore, if you will favor me in spite of my life full of regrets, I will put my entire soul to your avail. |
My Room 1 | Zowie, we egress? You're too noble to go on foot. Wait for a litter. |
My Room 2 | My lord must be as a proper lord and exude a tight-laced and august presence. And when that visage is impossible for you... turning a blind eye is oft an act of courtesy. |
My Room 3 | Master, you're deserving of Kyokutei Bakin's attendance. Be assured. You say Servants cannot choose their lords? Nay, I vehemently disagree. |
My Room 4 (if you have Foreigner Hokusai) | Tetsuzou... Katsushika Hokusai and I are a match made in hell. Perhaps the old saying about the wedlock best describes it: The most maladjusted bonds are the tighter and most uncuttable. That man is the left to my right. The dragon to my tiger. The billow to my maelstrom! That man was meticulously built from all the pieces I lack. You may call Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon, the collaborative novel series of Tetsuzou and mine, the greatest miracle in Edo's history. I expected not to consort with him anew here in Chaldea... Agh... Dear me...! |
My Room 5 (if you have both Hokusais) | Ei. Oei. Yes, I'm talking to you, the garrulous lass. W-w-w-w-wait, wait. Yes, I do have the plot for my next series already in mind. Hold off your starry eyes, I can't get it written overnight. I'm very aware that I'm in no position to cast aspersions, having to borrow Michi's hands again, but with that in mind, I still must ask: Are you satisfied with your choices? Katsushika Oui is more than resolved enough of an ukyou artist... You're fine this way? Then I trust your decisions. Mh? Xiannu? |
My Room 6 (if you have Andersen + any other writer) | It's heartening to see literary compeers here in Chaldea. Howbeit, masterful warriors of the pen are all insufferable bothers. If you pardon the self-deprecation, ahahahaha! O, Andersen-dono, writer of fairy tales? My writing mentors were Santou Kyouden's tales of antiquity. In my immature days, I misprized juvenile literature, but now their rich flavor ingrain into me. Allow me to try my hand... Once upon a time, an elderly couple lived alone in the mountains... |
My Room 7 (if you unlocked Kouyou's 2nd Ascension) | Oh?! Kijou Momiji? So here she goes by the name Kijou Kouyou. In my chapbook series Keisei Suikoden, she is the hero representing Chen Da, the Complete Star. Keisei Suikoden is an adaptation of Water Margin where I gender-bent all 108 heroes into women. A piece of prose I'm fondly proud of. Conversely, as my eyes travel the rows of Chaldea, I find no shortage of charmer warriors and knights. Wahahaha, 200 springs later, nothing changed. |
My Room 10 (if you have Tametomo) | Chinzei Hachirou Minamoto-no-Tametomo-dono. Who could have thought you were an automated puppet of furthermost subtle deft? Flabbergasting! A man forsooth, forsooth more stalwart than rumor says. Notwithstanding, this uncurbable affection akin to blood love must be the karma of a novelist's life... Er, I wish request you a tale of adventure to upstage the Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon. |
Likes | Frankly, nothing pleases my heart more than birds. On one occasion, I was raising hundreds of them at once, counting beyond 60 different species. The most memorable was a canary that grew with me from nonage to senectitude. I hear that in their original outlander language, canary shares its etymology with canine. Hehe. Another example of myousenjishou. Fate binds us in wondrous ways. |
Dislikes | What do I dislike? Not counting Tetsuzou? Mmm... that must be... when affairs don't go as foreseen. Unexpected woe sorrows me tremendously! Most ill of all are misspellings in my writing! I also disfavor artists with Tetsuzou's disposition to dare enjoy such unpredicted calamity to the point of illustrating them! GAAAH! |
Holy Grail | The Holy Grail!? [the canine warriors interrupt him with loud barking] Ey, now is not the time. Halt this mischief at once, Shinbei and Dousetsu. Keno, Shino, are you starting yet another fight? Kobungo has eaten far more than his fill and still has no end in sight. Aye, Daikoku, you good boy who does no wrong, go awake Genpachi and Sousuke. Ah, Master left me to rub their bellies... |
Event | A startling carnival? Nothing I have business with! That is unless you say the festivities are a profitable time! |
Birthday | You say it's your day of nativity, Master? Oh, congratulatable. Mmmm, congratulatable! We must amass the men for a felicitatory ceremony. And would you kindly have the reading of my novels as the first event in it? I have a new series completed in secrecy to be revealed come such auspicious occasion. Of course, as my Master, you get a 20% discount... GAH! [Michi takes over even if he's in 2nd Ascension] Ahem, father obviously meant to say we humbly offer it as a present. Happy birthday. May you have a healthy year. |