< Scanning >
< The System Scans the sword, but the Item is simply too much to be scanned, for its true capabilities >
< But, the System managed to scan its very name. >
< Item Name: Black Golden Sword of Purging Blade, Kurokin'enma >
< Item Rank: ... (?)... >
< This is what the System managed to scan... >
< Adding [Black Golden Sword of Purging Blade, Kurokin'enma] to the [Archive] >
< The next part is... >
< bzzt... >
< System Feature 'Scenario Display' activated. >
< This feature, will allow the User to witness the Archived Subjects & Objects memories through certain conditions or perhaps abnormalities. >
< [Scenario Display] plays the 'Memory Cutscene'. >
< Cutscene Opens. >
< Time Settings: Approximately 9 days ago. >
< Location: Meifumado Prison Fortress. >
< This is a Prison for the dangerous criminals of the Sakurakoku, the place where all the filthiest and cruelest beings the land of Cherry Blossom could offer, mostly non-human beings. >
< At that time. >
* An explosion happened in the prison. *
All prisoners see this and go riot, happy as the chaos erupts in the very Prison's fortress gates.
" It's the Chimera Master, ARGHH! " said the guards as Thunder slammed them with its Divinous strike, vaporizing them instantly.
" So the Sakurakoku Lord placed these 'bugs' to guard the most dangerous people of this very land? " Yakujin descends from the skies, revealing her humanoid self to all in the prison.
Despite all the defiance, both from the guards and even some rioting prisoners, Yakujin lay waste to them all with her strike from above.
" To think I had to spare my time here? why did I do it anyway? urgh... "
" I thought you came here because of the 'Black Merchant', Master... " Akafushi comes behind her, reminding Yakujin of it again.
" Ah yes, the great 'Black Merchant' asks me to come here before I just lay waste to the capital of the very Kingdom. "
" Saying that I may need some of the 'dangerous people' in my aide, as my extensions, aside from... " Yakujin coughed and gazed upon Akafushi.
" Perhaps you should heed his words... "
" For we need more numbers, after all... " Akafushi says this, after aiding Yakujin at her side all by herself, despite some help from others, before they're all gone.
" I agree... "
" But... "
" Do you sense the Ominous Aura, that spreads around here? " Yakujin asks, covering her nose as she smells it.
" Perhaps from that place. " Akafushi points at the very place, where the source of the Ominous Aura, is the sword bound with the heaviest of chains.
< [Scenario Display] plays the 'Memory Cutscene'. >
< Cutscene Opens. >
< Time Settings: Approximately 9 days ago. >
< Location: Meifumado Prison Fortress, 5th Underground Floor. >
" Kurokin'enma... " said a person's voice, as he felt something happened above.
The person himself is in chains, in a cell, separated far away from the others, as the 5th Floor is the place for those with hard sentences.
" Something..., happened above... " The person hears this, alongside others around him.
* Prisoner murmuring. *
" Is it the 'Annual Riot' again? usually, some idiot prisoner causes another riot every year, every month, every week, and then dies afterward... " the person sighed, he knew the rhythm of the prison's chaos, but still.
"( Why I constantly feel Kurokin'enma's constant energy surge? )"
"( It never felt like this, it's- )" Before the person could even think, a huge explosion happened from above, blasting down to the 5th Underground Floor, bringing light from above as the perpetrator descends.
A beautiful woman with fox tails and peacock wings descends from the skies while holding an ominous sword.
" I believe your owner's here... " she says as she releases it, the sword flies by itself and quickly slices the other inmates in their cells before it finally appears before the person.
" Kurokin'enma..., again...? " the sword of purge appears itself as it also slices the chains that bound the person's body.
The person falls and grabs onto the sword's handle, from his poor-like state, as soon he touches the sword's handle, he restores his body in an instant, returning to his prior shape.
" I assume, you're the one I'm looking for, Swordsman? " Yakujin approaches the person, seeing his great-shaped body as well as his, young appearance.
* Yakujin sniffs. *
" How old are you? I can smell that you're younger than me, but- "
" It doesn't matter, to me, age is nothing more than a number. "
" A number that defines our time of living, nothing more," he says while unsheathing the sword's blade, a crimson blade, filled with a powerful Aura.
" So, are you here to talk or fight? " said the person to Yakujin as she raised her chin, looking at him with a gaze filled with smug and mockery, while the person plunged towards her with the unsheathed blade.
" My name, is Saiki Nishiki! "
" Holder of Kurokin'enma, the one who will purge you today! " Saiki swings the sword as the battle ensues.
...
...
(Sometime later. )
[ Skill: Shroud of the Skies ]
" Interesting sword... " Yakujin smirks as Nishiki tries his best to plunge the very blade at her.
But, some invisible force, shields the Chimera Master from Kurokin'enma's purging blade, even repelling the blade's damaging aura back at Nishiki himself.
" Keurgh!!! " Nishiki felt the damaging force of his blade, repelled back to him as it gave him so many burns and cuts.
Nishiki stops his attacking attempt, retreating himself while preparing his fighting stance afterward.
" *Pant*, *Pant* "
" So that's Kurokin'enma...? " Yakujin asks with the cutest smug face she could ever make.
" The black golden sword with the blade that purges... "
" No wonder some 'Merchant' asks me to take a look... " Yakujin remembers a certain merchant.
" Especially... " Yakujin says, as she sees Nishiki's body mutated with a disgusting proportion.
" To think this kind of sword will be in the hands of a 'Fiend'. " Yakujin covers her nose, fearing the disgusting smell of a Fiend, a Defect Hybrid, will enter her gracious nose.
" It is the sword that embodies my bloodline's Fiend defects... "
" The sword made by ancestors to store the defection of our ancestor's failed hybrid birth, that still flows even to me. "
" With this, our constant defection can be absorbed and be utilized to something more..., " Nishiki says this as the sword absorbs his constant Fiend reveal, making him human again.
" Perfect. " Nishiki return to his quite-handsome-looking human form, in front of Yakujin.
" Well, in this form you are... " Yakujin agrees and approaches Nishiki with a smirk.
Seeing Yakujin's casual walk, Nishiki sheathed his sword back, knowing his opponent didn't wish to continue the battle.
" Why are you sheathing it? lemme see more. " Yakujin asks but Nishiki refuses.
" No, I... " Nishiki holds his sword handle, as his Fiend Powers are gradually absorbed even from Kurokin'enma's handle.
" If I unsheathed it, I will again use the ominous Fiend Powers, sealed here for generations by each of its holders. "
" For my Clan, vowed to abandon our Fiend defection and embrace that of a human... "
" A vow, I must maintain... "
" For I- "
" So you want to keep your current handsome human face, I get it! " Yakujin says this, approaching Nishiki as she stands in front of him, towering over him with her height.
" The handle works as to absorb the Fiend energy of yours while the blade releases it? " Yakujin asks Nishiki.
" Yes, to make me return is all about the handle. "
" For only with it, it can re-seal again those unwanted Fiend energies of mine... " Saiki tells Yakujin that.