Gojouno Kaguya (ゴジョウノ・輝夜) is a short story given to those who purchased volume 2 of Astraea Record in BookWalker.
Summary[]
In the government in the Far East, there was 9 Royal families that maintained the government under the god/goddess Amaterasu. Kaguya was a member of the Gojouno family. The 5th of the nine families. Many familias also existed in the Far East under the overarching rule of Amaterasu.
In order to maintain their bloodline, The members of the Gojouno family were not allowed to form relationships outside of their of other members of the Gojouno family. This poison would even kill many of them that couldn’t survive it’s effects. The purpose of the poison was basically to make their bodies be a living vessel of poison that would kill anyone that was foolish enough to try to sleep with a woman of their family line. The males of the Gojouno family would also regularly drink an alcoholic beverage that acted as a antidote to the poison that would allow them to produce heirs with the female members of their family.
Kaguya’s family bloodline being so constrained to their family made it so that it was easy for skills or magic to pass down from generation to generation much like the elves. It was considered as a rarity in the Far East for people to develop skills or magic so the Gojouno family was very valued by the Imperial Court that ruled over the government of the Far East. The skill that was passed on to most members of the of the Goujono family through generations was called 殺人 “killer”.
All the girls in the Gojouno family wore masks with a cherry blossom pattern that covered the top half of their faces. All the members of their family looked pretty much the same since they were so close related, but Kaguya was described as looking beautiful in regards to that. She also has short hair in this SS, and Astraea was the one who suggested her to grow her hair out long. This SS revealed that Kaguya also had a little sister, but she was only mentioned in this SS.
All the members of the Goujono family our in a familia under a goddess of beauty named Kono Hana no Sakuya-Hime (hime means princess in Japanese.) She had long black hair and wore something that covered her eyes. The Goujono family basically work like soldiers to the Imperial Court, and were said to protect the laws and justice of the Far East. Kaguya told herself that she was happy with maintaining the Justice of the Far East, but there were times that she had killed people that were not necessarily guilty of crimes, because the Imperial Court commanded it.
There was a man from the 6th family that would often talk to Kaguya, and started to feel like she had feelings for him, and felt like he might like her since he would talk to her on so many occasions but she couldn’t believe that he actually liked her, and thought to herself that he probably viewed him as a friend, since their was no way that she could ever have his child or sleep with him without killing him.
When she talked about be fond protecting the justice of the Far East he told her that he couldn’t forget the expression on her face when she was killing someone with tears in her eyes. He told Kaguya that her family was weird, and he told her he wanted to save her from the fate of her role in her family.
There ends up being a revolution and Kaguya, but when Kaguya noticed that he was among one of the people that she was supposed to kill in order to stop it she ended up betraying their family and the imperial court for the first time by not fighting, because she believed that killing him couldn’t be justice.
At that time her goddess told her to forget justice, and then her vision went black. When she came to her sense the dead body of the man from the 6th family was in front of her and her sword was covered in blood, which made Kaguya realize that her goddess had used charm on her in order to make her kill him.
Her goddess unlocked her status after that and Kaguya ended up leaving the Far East and eventually coming to Orario and meeting Astraea. Kaguya thinks to herself that Ryu’s personality on how she views justice and stuff reminds her of the man from the sixth family a lot.