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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Statistics

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
理解12.49
11.59
12.68
有り難うございました13.41
四十13.76
朽ち果てる14.70
切ない14.07
として11.89
評価13.17
筈がない13.40
前に12.25
きっぱり14.05
少々13.17
だろう11.78
とりあえず12.73
売り言葉に買い言葉15.09
莫迦14.02
12.02
黙る12.92
たる13.17
やむを得ない14.68
戴き13.44
12.86
左派13.44
教わる13.70
木の芽15.70
ならぬ13.59
外囲13.11
時の12.80
肉塊14.28
12.85
間違う13.21
着物13.99
疑う13.25
ものですか14.53
体調13.59
殊に12.16
浅い13.66
許す12.89
呼びかけ13.81
慌てる12.84
望み通り14.67
12.96
しみじみ13.97
その通り13.27
15.72
伴侶13.94
続いて13.13
少しずつ13.39
幼い13.35
12.57
文句13.23
こう12.92
呑む13.66
やれ13.27
12.57
13.39
居る12.39
寝そべる14.31
12.47
決まる13.10
気丈14.44
限り12.90
腹を壊す15.59
生涯13.91
再来年15.31
あんなに13.52
12.74
その場12.86
どうにかこうにか14.95
知らない12.68
重ねて13.65
いい12.05
やも知れぬ14.57
フン14.00
詫び14.31
と言うものは13.72
のに12.21
一幅14.03
独り言13.87
一葉14.33
よもや14.39
往く13.36
14.09
後悔13.30
拗ねる13.97
12.13
三十13.45
帰す13.93
ゆっくり12.72
生きていく13.95
12.11
まま12.40
ど阿呆15.80
兄弟13.59
意固地14.92
二度13.63
野菜13.36
12.15
そこで12.74

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