Drooling Azuma

📖 Drooling Azuma's Story

Azuma means east, the direction of the rising sun, and there was a time the name fit a warrior whose hunger for the fight rose with it every morning. He ate risk for breakfast. He was the first over the wall and the last to leave the field. Then the wars ended and took the one thing big enough to feed an appetite like that, and a hunger with no war to point at does not politely disappear. It just finds the nearest table. Now Drooling Azuma wants everything the dojo has, the whole pot, the last dumpling, one more roll, and he drools not because he is slow but because he is starving for a war that is never coming back and will settle, in the meantime, for absolutely anything else. He swears off gluttony at the start of every fast and breaks it before the first bell, always for noble reasons, usually research into whether the dumplings are poisoned. They never are. He keeps checking.