Raikou The Stoner

📖 Raikou The Stoner's Story

Raikou means lightning light, and the name was a warning once, because Raikou moved slow and easy right up until the instant he did not, and then it was over. He won the fights that mattered and a few that did not. Then the wars ended, and a weapon that fast discovered it had nothing left worth the draw. So he put the sword down, picked up a very long soak and a great deal of weed, and rebranded the whole thing as enlightenment. He will tell you he has found peace. He has, sort of, in the way a man finds peace when he stops looking for the war. The lightning is still in there. He just prefers, these days, not to bother it. He means to meditate every morning, right after this one bowl. Discipline, he explains, cannot be rushed. Neither, it turns out, can Raikou.