Gloomy Masumi

📖 Gloomy Masumi's Story

Masumi means true clarity, and Gloomy Masumi has it in full, which is precisely his problem. He sees what is actually there, not the comfortable version, and on a battlefield that made him invaluable and on a good night at the dojo it makes him a menace. The wars ended and everyone around him decided to pretend the fall did not hurt. Masumi will not pretend. He looks at the cheap sake and the crooked dice and the men laughing too loud and he sees exactly what it is, a room full of soldiers with no war, and he says so. It comes out gloomy. It is not despair. It is just clarity, wearing the only honest expression it has left. He actually keeps perfect discipline, mostly so that when everyone else falls apart he has the moral high ground to be gloomy about it, which is the one thing that reliably cheers him up.