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
ヒト43.90
41.89
何故42.62
のだ41.65
42.72
閉じる43.13
なあ42.86
する41.24
僧尼42.52
最も43.10
には41.57
53.07
れる51.22
52.65
くれる51.97
に取って52.44
51.60
もの51.96
生き52.80
そして61.87
61.16
よりも62.48
だった71.58
その71.44
ない71.61
そなた73.57
しかし72.08
美しい72.99
72.68
食う73.13
82.12
81.99
いる81.00
のか81.74
あっ81.98
92.82
91.38
思う91.61
幸福93.74
121.29
こと131.30
なる141.37
181.04
220.77
230.86
412.40
410.54
470.48
480.28
570.56
653.17
660.41
720.48

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