Samurai Oni
ALLEGIANCES

Mizunashi Kage followed Akio's steps, but in the end he was as late as Akio himself, so that he was faced with the lifeless Shogun Hatekayama.

“Shogun!”

Worse, he saw the figure of the Samurai Oni with a blood-soaked black sword in his hand. What was Mizunashi thinking?

“Akio!”

What made this happen as if Akio had killed him, was Mikio. He was suddenly just across the other side door, calling Akio as he walked over.

“What are you doing?” asked the pretentious Mikio who did not understand anything. Especially with a sad face.

“What are you doing, Samurai Oni!” mizunashi's screams are deafening.

For a moment Akio was silent, he seemed to be trying to digest this incident. And I don't know since when Mikio's black sword has been in his hands.

He silently stared with a confused feeling, as if thunder shook his body, Akio widened his eyes and looked at the Shogun who was already lying without the slightest awareness.

“What's wrong with you, Akio? Why are you doing it?”

While the real actors are playing the show. Playing the role of a figure later. Mikio slowly approached and then held onto both of Akio's shoulders. Sometimes he shakes it to make Akio aware of his daydream.

“Samurai Oni! Attack him!” nekomata shouted, descending from behind the ceiling of the room.

Akio instantly realized, his existence here was not to mourn the death of someone who had long awaited but to eliminate the yokai that was right in front of his eyes.

“I've been waiting for you, Akio. I want to kill you but baby you are very weak, even now your internal organs are still not fully recovered, right?”

Akio raised his head, looking at Mikio while grasping the black sword already in his hand.

“Mikio! Stop Akio's actions immediately! Tie him up and don't let it escape!” pekik Mizunashi who seems to have considered Akio as the enemy and the Shogun's killer.

However, Mikio did not listen to him at all.

“I hope we can talk even longer,” Mikio cleanly with a big smile.

Hearing it made Akio even more fed up, without hesitation and as Nekomata said, Akio unsheathed the sword on Mikio's body that had absolutely no defense back then.

A moment after the black sword pierced through Mikio's back, a black shadow shot out from below and attacked Akio from behind. The same technique that Mikio killed the Shogun is now practiced back at Akio.

“You are really brash sister.”

Silent in holding back the vexation, Samurai Oni remained standing with both hands trembling pushing the blade of the sword. Fresh blood flowed out from both Mikio and Akio's bodies, both of whom were both injured but invisible they would be uprooted.

“Akio! What are you doing?!” While Mizunashi really does not understand the situation.

For him what has been seen then that is the true event. But, on the one hand he also refused to believe that Akio was the one who killed the Shogun.

Several witnesses who started arriving after Mizunashi Kage were stunned by the situation in this room. They never once said even a word, just staring in disbelief at the same time confused. Their swords trembled as if they wanted to kill something.

“Mikio inside, Shogun dead. Samurai Oni attacked them both?”

“I'm sure it's because of yokai. Akio ...Akio can't do it.”

Just like their swords, the fresh blood-soaked black sword also continued to tremble. Mixed in an extremely deep pain, Akio tried to endure the cries as he turned the sword blade from within.

“Ugh! Y-you ..really killing me? Akio!” Fresh blood coming out of his mouth flowed until it fell onto the oni mask, Mikio's body slowly weakened but his hoarse voice made Akio choked still.

Almost he removed the sword hilt, he was eager to step back and escape from it, but. Mikio who was in front of him was not a human, but a yokai. Then the yokai controlling that strange black shadow was out there.

With a soft voice Akio called out to him, “Kakak ...,” As he shed tears, he pulled the sword quickly and then cut off Mikio's head without any gaps.

Nekomata was silent, his mind as if dragged by the tears that had fallen in the pool of blood. The incident has been seen by many witnesses.

***

He was put on a hanging pole the next day.

“Samurai Oni! Better since the beginning you weren't born!”

“It's true! Your existence is no better than trash!”

Many of the residents behind the bamboo blocked the execution ground open, berating Akio all out. Not infrequently they also throw stones, no matter about it or not.

Akio at that moment could not stare at anything anymore, he closed his eyes intending to escape from the sky that was the witness. Standing on a wooden board bound to his feet and hands, prepared to receive blasphemy and arrows or other weapons including swords and torches of fire.

Executing Akio publicly as Samurai Oni, the perpetrator of the Hatekayama Shogun's murder and the Black Samurai Sword, Mikio.

“Hahaha! Feel that! Ha, I thought he would. Look, that's proof!” pekik Honjou enjoys the flat face of Akio there.

Not many of the samurai spoke, they only kept their mouths shut except Honjou who behaved exactly like the inhabitants of today.

While Kizu, Nekomata, and Akashi are hiding behind a room in the execution area.

The judge stood up and recited the entire deeds of the Samurai Oni from the beginning to the last one, when the reading was over, Akashi and the others immediately moved forward over the judge.

“I'm your sword! I won't let my master die!” yell Akashi and Kizu at the same time.

With their strength, relying solely on physicality as a yokai can escape Akio from there. Even jumping from a bamboo fence built high enough is not an obstacle especially for two human-bodied yokai today.

Nekomata follows them from behind, but, as the samurai have begun to act, Nekomata shows off as a monster, enlarging his body to keep Akashi and Kizu from getting a chance to escape with Akio.

“I see the constancy of your heart, Samurai Oni. From now on I will follow you wherever you go. But after finishing my business here.”

“Neko-nya? not coming with us?”

“Forget that! Prioritize Mr Akio!”

“Pursue him!!” honjou shouted with great enthusiasm to recapture Akio.

Nekomata certainly would not let Honjou escape, just before attacking him he had a few words to say.

“I'm sorry for breaking your promise, Mister!” pekiknya then without hesitation he pushed Honjou's body until it crashed far from there.