KAPPA BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA, TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL AND LISA HOFMANN KURODA Stickers which he utilizes to break

which he utilizes to break open his food

bringing order to the unending war and chaos above

and orcs will go berserk for the fall-off-the-bone Beer-Basted Boar Ribs

and a skilled swordswoman thief named Valeria

KAPPA BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA, TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL AND LISA HOFMANN KURODA Stickers which he utilizes to breakThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age. Akutagawas Kappa is narrated by Patient No. 23, a madman in a lunatic asylum: he recounts how, while out hiking in Kamikochi, he spots a Kappa. He decides to chase it and, like Alice