The Dragon and His Wife

The Dragon and His Wife

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"I shall bite away your life when you are most beautiful and most happy." Thus promised the dragon and the human's daughter. In the dragon's eyes, the daughter's days seemed to be filled with happiness. His wife always smiled beautifully. And yet, now she no longer moves. The poignant and helpless love and fate of a dragon born with the earth and a human with a finite lifespan. (This short story was inspired by a certain tweet the other day and developed into an original short fiction. It has no connection whatsoever to the original tweet's world view, and I have received permission from the tweet's author to publish it.) (Also posted on Kakuyomu and Everista)

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Reading Time
32 min
Words 1,426
Sentences 158
Characters 2,597
Unique Words 553
1-Occurrence Words
386
Unique Kanji 381
1-Occurrence Kanji
219
Avg Word Difficulty 2.22
Avg Sentence Length 9.0

Word List (553 words)

WordFrequencyDifficulty
は720.48
を660.41
妻653.17
て570.56
の480.28
が470.48
に410.54
竜412.40
で230.86
と220.77
も181.04
なる141.37
こと131.30
板121.29
幸福93.74
我92.82
思う91.61
下91.38
のか81.74
た82.12
目81.99
いる81.00
あっ81.98
娘72.68
ない71.61
食う73.13
美しい72.99
だった71.58
そなた73.57
しかし72.08
その71.44
そして61.87
よりも62.48
だ61.16
生き52.80
刻52.65
もの51.96
れる51.22
くれる51.97
愛53.07
に取って52.44
ば51.60
には41.57
する41.24
なあ42.86
閉じる43.13
のだ41.65
死ぬ42.49
ヒト43.90
な41.04
最も43.10
北41.89
命42.72
僧尼42.52
何故42.62
また32.19
幸せ32.99
ころ33.59
彼ら32.47
言う31.56
悲しい33.34
不幸33.66
言葉31.96
下さい32.34
鱗33.40
や31.75
ご免33.00
動く32.53
やる32.13
して31.31
生33.40
愛らしい33.85
ずっと32.68
瞬き33.84
姿32.21
齧る34.13
見える32.26
やはり32.55
白い32.82
問う33.22
では31.75
総出32.91
で御座います33.39
殿32.18
一度32.79
全て32.32
暮らし33.33
丈31.71
顔31.91
必要32.28
あなた様24.20
幾22.12
きっと22.65
悪い22.37
それが22.31
しまう22.03
我が妻25.18
初めて22.64
ばかり22.53
恨む23.75
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