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The fate of the entire world—and the Cosmere at large—hangs in the balance. The unanticipated story of two people who find one another. Akane walked off, heels striking stone, paintbrush in hand, canvas under her arm. Tojin gave Painter a little shrug, then followed, his own supplies in his large painter’s bag. Painter lingered as he watched them go, and fought down the urge to chase after them. He was a young man, still a year from his twenties, as you’d count the years.
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Painter tries to delay their return to her world and keep her awake with a hion viewer program, but Yumi is determined to reject all frivolities and get back to work. They arrive at the shrine in the village orchard--a strange location, Yumi notes, with shrines usually being found in flower gardens. She bullies Painter into repeating the six essential ritual prayers after her, insisting that he must fulfill the duties of the yoki-hijo if they are ever to be free of one another.
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During her adventures with Painter, she discovers freedom. And she begins to understand all the wonderful, terrible things that living can bring. The relationship of Yumi and Painter to one another comes to explore the nature of art, its influence on a person’s well-being, and how the creative act has power. Yumi now flees from the scholars, soaring in her tree. The tree begins to disintegrate slowly, and the scholars follow. She breaks through the barrier, into the shroud proper, and sees the prisons of the other yoki-hijo, as well as Torio City.
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In the city of Kilahito, a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares, Nikaro (Painter) works as a nightmare painter. Suddenly, an event unpredictably intertwined their lives together in ways they never imagined. In Torio, Painter now appears to others as though he is Yumi, and Yumi turns into a disembodied spirit visible only to him. The characters of Yumi And The Nightmare Painter are something of a mixed bag. My friend recently described Painter as having “edgelord vibes,” and that’s not entirely incorrect. Painter’s growth throughout the novel redeems him in some ways, but it still leaves lots of room for improvement.
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After eating, they step out of the wagon into their getuk and the attendants shield Yumi from the view of villagers with fans as they walk to the local cold spring. Chaeyung and Hwanji then wash and rinse Yumi's body using a series of soaps and creams, following the pattern of the artist's sequence of progress. When they finish, Yumi submerges herself for 144 seconds to complete her ritual bathing, then emerges and is dressed in her ritual tobok. From here they walk to the village shrine, located in a flower garden. At the shrine, Yumi kneels and begins thirteen ritual prayers before proceeding to her meditations.
They arrive to see the machine working, and Painter is determined not to be outmatched. He is able to do some of his best stacking, and eventually a spirit appears from the ground, halfway between Nikaro and the machine--apparently attracted by the efforts of both. The spirit is unfortunately pulled in by the machine, but Painter is encouraged by the small victory. After a day in Painter's world to collect some of her thoughts, spent mostly alone in Nikaro's apartment, the pair have returned. Liyun enters, after knocking, as Painter eats his breakfast. She asks how Yumi learned about the reform movement, which Painter lies about.
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Tojin rushes to find some fellow painters to cover for them so that they can talk more with Yumi. They make their way to the Noodle Pupil and are joined by Tojin, Izzy, and Masaka. They comfort Yumi and she slowly makes her way out of her shell with them. Painter sits at a table nearby and speaks with Design, discussing his attraction toward her. The others eventually begin to explain that Painter is a liar, and Nikaro decides to leave. Their first day of training comes to an end and Yumi is exasperated because Nikaro was a stubborn student and he has not made any improvement.
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He doesn’t cultivate for power, but to satisfy his endless curiosity. One fateful day, Xiao Huifen, a girl aiming to be the youngest Sky Realm cultivator in the Monolith continent’s history, crashes into his life. She’s from the world of top-ranked sects and strict cultivation methodologies. They share nothing in common except for the unquenchable desire to unlock heaven’s every mystery. The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a group of “species purists” intent on destroying any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements.
They explain to Design how they have been switching places, with Nikaro suspecting Yumi is from the star. Yumi asks Design if she is a spirit, and explains how the spirits on her world behave. Design confirms that she is similar, but rejects Yumi's reverence as misplaced. The Cryptic promises she will try to help them, but admits that they really need Hoid's expertise because she is not particularly knowledgeable in Realmatic Theory. Yumi is getting sleepy so they return to Nikaro's apartment.
Returned to his apartment, Nikaro considers his failure to stack the rocks properly as Yumi tries to explain what he did wrong. She decides that their only course of action now is for her to teach him. Painter thinks about the family he saved from the stable nightmare, realizes he didn't have Yumi report them previously, and wishes to find out what happened.
Tojin arrives to report that the foreman believed him about the stable nightmare and summoned the Dreamwatch. Izzy gibes that Nikaro probably fled to another city after seeing the nightmare, but Yumi defends him. Design approaches and reminds the group that the spaceship is scheduled to land on the "star". She turns on the hion viewer and they all witness the explorers land on a watery planet and make first contact with the four-armed Sho Del living there. Yumi and Painter are shocked to discover that it is not Yumi's planet.
Painter hears a strange sound, sees something come from the sky and strike him in the chest, and then loses consciousness. Even for a compulsive planner like me, sometimes a story emerges like magic. You build an outline in days, craft worlds during a compulsive daydream, and develop characters with a burst of imagination like the brief flash of a firework. Yumi, in her own way, encounters this issue of having her value determined by her service as a yoki-hijo.
The fourth scholar eventually agrees to prime the machine, so he places his hand on a special plate at the heart of the machine. Yumi observes hion lines appear between him and the plate, and as she looks closer sees an additional pair of lines appear from herself. The machine starts working, and the scholars celebrate--except for Sunjun who noticed the lines from Yumi. He believes a spirit is nearby and alerts the others.
The final spirit is pried away and the machine falls still, then disintegrates.The freed spirits thank Yumi. Despite the concerns of others who see what he is doing, Nikaro paints Liyun in her original, human form. She transforms and, when he finishes and moves on, she does not revert back. He moves on to the mayor, beginning the painting until he identifies the nightmare transforming. As he fills in the details, the man continues to transform--giving Nikaro more to work with.
Tojin loped beside her, a young man with bulging arms and flat features. Painter had always thought Tojin was like a painting done without proper use of perspective or foreshortening. Surely a man’s arms couldn’t be that big, his chin that square.
It was difficult to maintain a properly brooding air after an encounter with Akane. Particularly as her laughter echoed two streets over. To many of his colleagues, nightmare painting was not as . This is a world where the magic of art affects the world around them. Yumi’s special talent with rocks and Painter’s (of course) paintings help them to communicate with creatures that they can’t talk to without that special artistic connection.
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