Mr. Paints
episode 11
Five minutes later, there was no sound.
The winds that controlled the rain were also the movement of the lantern light, as if frozen from its axis.
Minami can't hear anything. He only saw all the objects around him, frozen by the death of time.
It didn't just happen. A moment ago after Yamashita pushed him down on the bed, he accidentally said his plea.
I want to go back to the future. Life suffering is painful. But, to give up honor, is death.
As Minami asked, a moment later, suddenly out of nowhere, a swarm of black cats swarmed the wide-ventilated window to the right of her bed.
Minami's heart felt a great tremor, as if something had possessed her soul at that moment.
The dozens of pairs of animal eyes instantly lit up in the gloomy winter light.
Along with the noise from the mouths of dozens of cats, another miracle occurred. Yamashita Kasetsu's body, which was being overpowered by her, yawned. Incarnated into a Nekomata figure covered in a long hakama.
Minami's tears, which flooded her cheeks from the beginning, returned to tears of disbelief.
He really didn't expect it to be safe so easily. Yamashita is not a villain, but she is too afraid of her own turbulent changes.
Minami is 16. He is not ready to get in touch with a stranger in bed.
Time still stopped when Minami Muruka shuffled from there. He tidied one by one his yukata until finally decided to leave the place.
The ancient tatami layer on the wooden floor voiced a scraping sound on the girl's feet. He turned around and found no cat behind the door.
The world may also be dead. Nekomata Yamashita's incarnation even resembled a puppet staring blankly at the departure of his wife-reincarnation princess Kaguya, who pulled the door and left it just like that.
Flasbacks from the past are repeated. Princess Kaguya in earlier times, ran away from her bridal room to pursue something.
As now, raising the narrow end of his Yukata, Minamipun went down corridor after corridor just as his reincarnation had. Surprisingly, there was not a single servant he found.
Like the palace of death, there was only snow as well as wind in every corner of the ancient building.
As fast as Minami ran, he only met wooden boards that created a dead end street.
It's unclear what happened next. Minami only felt her knees suddenly tremble strongly. Withstanding pain at once cold. Her clothes were probably too thin for her lips to shake in disarray.
He was too weak to think clearly until strange memories entered him.
At that very moment, the shadow of his past swirled. Minami was shocked when she saw herself wrapped in an old and thick kimono, standing in the same place as she was now.
Princess Kaguya in the form of Minami just ran and fell on a pile of snow. But before long, someone came from another direction, shouting something.
No one but the king, nor the ladies-in-waiting, dared to touch a princess. But, the man did without awkwardly doing so. He should have called someone else to help.
But no, he wanted to do it himself. Bringing him-in the past form by stealth.
It was a man who resembled Yoshio. Minami's marriage to Yamashita Kasetsu.
But, unfinished that shock, something unexpected happened.
When you want to follow,
Minami suddenly fell on a snowpack. Memory ultimately splits, bringing it back to reality.
It felt very strange when he himself realized, the incident was exactly the same as what he had just seen in his memory.
Another with his reincarnation completely unconscious, Minami could still say something. Looked at Yoshio who looked like a servant.
What do you want? Seeing Yoshio also living at the same time for the past few decades, do you think that this might also be a fate line? Then choose. Live back to your bad destiny, or stay here, be empress until I pick you up. You have the right to choose, but only this once.
The girl was shocked, as the invisible voice again stole time and froze everything.
Minami again watched for herself how the snowflakes stopped moving, covering the face of Yoshio's statue.
Unlike in the beginning, this time there was only a green-eyed striped cat.
According to instinct, Minami followed him until finally, the beast then jumped into the arms of a pale-faced man. His figure was very tall with black eye creases that shone coldly as well as sharp.
For a moment the girl was fixated, staring at the sinister form of the man before her.
Is he a god of death? Bisik Minami hesitated. If true, she must be the center of all the strangeness in my life.
"Daughter, speak. Before time moves on and snuff out your last chance. I am not a God who can stall your death as good as my heart. But I promise to keep you protected through Yamashita Kasetsu. So, tell me the answer to my last question. At what time will you spend the rest of your life?" he said looking at Minami coldly and casually. His fingers gently stroked the head of his pet, Nekomata.
"I want to live as Minami Muruka. With no memory of Yamashita Kasetsu is also this marriage. It hurts and might make my life bother." Minami sighed loudly then bowed with her elbows as well as her cold knees.
"alright. But, Prince Yamashita is entitled to you. You made a deal with him. Serving it is a simple exchange for a lifetime guarantee while being an ordinary human being." The god of death whispered with high emphasis. It was as if it forced Minami to understand.
Feeling ignored, the god of death smiled cynically, "Well, you haven't changed much, have you? Besides being good at playing the feelings of men. You're also sneaky."
His grin made Minami take small aim.
"I'm gonna throw you into the future. You are free to do anything - except change destiny. When you break it, then I'll pull your spirit out." The hand that originally stroked the cat's head, now made a gripping motion that looked painful.
"I'm Koji, the eleventh-generation god of death, allowing the timekeeper to open up access home to someone. Reincarnation and moon goddess Kaguya Asahi. Take him to three weeks ago. "
Not from above the sky, but the sound came from a time vortex in a small hole in the wooden walls.