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3 - Black Tortoise god (Japanese)
6 - Courtly love
7 - Ready for battle
8 - Salty antidote for the poison 'kodoku'?
9 - Miaka's real-world connection
10 - Of the ancient world, perhaps
13 - Star Warriors (Japanese)
14 - A reading of Tamahome's birthmark symbol (Japanese)
16 - What Miaka is to Yui
18 - Seiryuu's animal form
21 - Conflicted Kutou warrior
23 - Suzaku's animal form
24 - Hotohori's birthright
1 - Loyal sibling
2 - Fighter, or The meaning of 'shi' in 'seishi'
3 - Obstacle to Nuriko's marital inclinations
4 - Leggy, lovelorn Seiryuu warrior
5 - Of the heavens, like the "Book of Four Gods"
7 - Chichiri's façade
11 - Taka's predecessor
12 - Suzaku no miko (Priestess of Suzaku)
15 - An upper-level magic-user, like Nakago & Chichiri
17 - By-products of Tasuki's brand of spell-casting?
19 - What little Yuiren calls Tamahome (Japanese)
20 - Murder
22 - A rude name for the venerable Taiitsukun (Japanese)