[ Yakujin's Lair, Treasure Room. ]
The 'Black Box' is humming inside the place.
" It seems everything has gone so much, it begins to went more interesting from before. "
" Phew, speaking of interesting... "
" Guess I'm not going to be the one who will be 'entertained' today... " the 'Black Box' says as it sees the Black Merchant comes in front of him.
...
( At the same time. )
[ Yakujin's Lair, Thunder Sakura Garden. ]
Akafushi, being the Spirit she is, decides to go around the gardens, she sees everything that transpired there.
" Wait, what is this pressence? " Akafushi then suddenly felt a powerful ominous pressence near.
As she felt it, she then summons the other Insect Spirits she commanded to go and search for the source.
" All of you, find and destroy it! " Akafushi orders them as they all go to the source of ominous pressence.
As they all left her.
" It is a rare coincidence to see a 'Wandering Spirit'? " said a voice, as the body comes out from the tree's shadows.
" Who are you!? Akafushi asks as she then summons her [Blood Sword].
[ Skill: Blood Sword ]
[ Mana and Ki infusion. ]
Using the Mana and Ki, Akafushi enhances the very sword made from her blood, she faces the person who seemed able to see her with his mere eyes.
" Who are you, human!? " Akafushi asks to the man, which the man smirked.
" Yamagami Arikato, the Sakurazaka Village's Head Shaman. "
" I'm here to inform you that from now on, we will abolish our worship towards Chimera Master, Yakujin. " he says to Akafushi, making her pissed.
" What did you say!? " Akafushi swings the blood-made blade of her sword, swing right into his neck to in order to slice it.
But sadly.
[ Magic: Earth Protection ]
The Shaman uses his Magic to protect himself from the very attack, using it to fought against Akafushi's Blood Sword.
" It seems, you are Chimera Master Yakujin's subordinate. " Head Shaman says to Akafushi.
" Seeing you here, I wonder why no one dares to enter her lair while she's gone... "
" I've always heard stories that those who tried will return as corpses, and now I believed that story... "
" For in secret, the Chimera Master Yakujin had control over a powerful Spirit.
" A powerful Spirit that would be good to be added into my Arsenal. " the Head Shaman says, using another of his Magic [Earth Capture] to capture Akafushi's Spirit.
With the Magic, he not only capture her but also sealed her, preventing her Spirit to rebel as he compresed the very Earth Prison he made, into a tiny box.
" I've done my part here, hope the 'Relic' I've inserted to 'that' would do it's job, properly. " Head Shaman says as he leaves with some loot.
( At the same time. )
All of the Insect Spirits that Akafushi commands are now destroyed as they were all devoured by a humanoid monstrous creature that feeds on their Souls.
* Creature Munching. *
[ Onward to the Sakura Forests ]
" So, Master Yakujin... " Shiro says while holding Yakujin's hands as the leisurely walked after their bath.
Using her Peacock wings, Yakujin dries Shiro's clothes whilst she summoned her own clothes out of nowhere using her magic.
" I never thought you could use Magic? " Shiro asks as he sees the clothes.
Hearing this, Yakujin scoffs, as she hears this praise.
" My dear boy, tsk, tsk... " she answered while shaking her head.
" There are more to me than what you've seen... " Yakujin tells Shiro, telling him that she is not drawing her full capabilities in everytime she was present before him.
" So, you're saying... "
" You can do more, without Sister Akafushi's help? " Shiro asks which Yakujin decides to look upwards and thinks about it.
" Well, I have many capabilities more than other people... "
" But after years passed, I began to grow tired doing things by myself. "
" I began to grow bored, as if my great gift of talents are only meant to do endless work without any leisure. "
" As if the strong was always meant to serve the weak, who thanks to us, live leisurely and happily from our sweat and blood. "
" Even worse, the weak often forget their places and decides to conspire to take full control of the strong's power, hoping to use it for their own agendas. " Yakujin says while holding Shiro's hands while Shiro also felt bad as he hears this.
" That's why in these times, I've decided to lay things on those weaker than me. "
" Like Akafushi and her bug Spirits, I relay things to them now... "
" Not because of simple laziness, but I've felt that the weak owed too much for living under the same sky as the strong in this New Age, too privileged. "
" A thing that is undeserved by them in the first place, but enforced, by this 'New Age'. "
" The most annoying fact I will ever defy 'till the end. " Yakujin ends it while walking with Shiro, hearing it, Shiro felt guilty, he looks down on himself over Yakujin's unsympathetic words.
* Shiro take off his fingers form Yakujin's. *
" Hmmm? " Yakujin realized that Shiro stops walking and holding her hand, she sees him frozen like a statue, as he could only look down onto the ground.
"( Hargh, just how fragile his emotions..., are all kids like this? )" Yakujin asks as she approached Shiro, lowering herself before him to see his face close.
" I see you are quick to understand my frustations, dear?~ " Yakujin asks Shiro while her hands hold his chin.
" It seems you already understand how often it made me angry that there's always trouble coming alongside you. " Yakujin's fingers rubs the chin.
" 'Azi Dahaka's Relic inside the Black Box', the burning of my 'Thunder Sakura Gardens', the 'Red String of Fate', and the most great of them all, your escape which conveniently happened together with another Chimera Master's challenge. " Yakujin adresses all to Shiro.
" Do you know how much it pissed me off, my dear? " Yakujin says this while her face getting near to Shiro's private space, holding it as she began to loose her patience.
" If it weren't for your 'Special Blood' and the 'Red Strings of Fate', alongside that 'Potion'* Akafushi forced me into, you wouldn't be with me right now. "
" A weak-harmless boy whom mercied with my status and suddenly elevated further without my permission. "
" Now, you know why I'm so pissed, my dear? "
" For how this all happened in days swoop, it makes me wonder if this Fate's most disgusting joke or what... " Yakujin says it, telling Shiro about what she think, but Shiro didn't hear it, he sees up for so long as his mouth opens, trying to talk.
"( This child... )" Yakujin realizes Shiro's expression.
"( He's looking something behind me, wha- )" Yakujin immediately turns around, he sees the thing happened afar, fires spreading around the Thunder Mist Mountains Sakura Forest, fires so red that it not only engulfs the forests but also...
" My Lair!!! " Yakujin shouts as she sees the fire from her place. She. Is. Pissed.
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Extra:
* Potion:
Yakujin means the 'Fated Love Potion' from Chapter 47. The one Akafushi received from the Black Merchant.
This Potion is the reason she 'did it' with Shiro in the lake, per Akafushi's insist as Yakujin magically vows with her.
The potion lasts after the two went off the lake, so now Yakujin is returning to her usual self.