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On-Yomi: ゼイ

Koohii stories:

1) [dihutenosa] 5-9-2007(234): Nobody likes the tax man, so here it is only fitting that the person who comes over to take some of your wheat is depicted here as a devil. Keep in mind that in feudal societies there was no kind of money to speak of, so taxes were paid by serfs in wheat to the devils who came over to keep them poor.

2) [genbaku] 11-1-2008(98): This is an easy one. Taxes is like the devil taking away your hard earned wheat.

3) [javiergakusei] 22-7-2007(21): I don't know if it makes sense, but it works for me: If the Warrior cannot levy the shells [frame 378], then the Devil will come and colllect your Wheat as Tax.

4) [AndamanIslander] 20-4-2008(11): "No, mister tax man, please no! Anything but this! Please don't take our bread away! how shall I feed my horny teenager now?".

5) [Pangolin] 21-12-2008(9): When the church takes 10% of your wheat harvest, it's a tithe. When the devil takes it, it's a tax.

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