Samurai Oni
DREAM MANIPULATED II

In the deep darkness, fall asleep still without being able to move a little. Something gripped both hands, feet and head. His hair felt like something was grabbing him firmly, causing him pain.

Chiharu grimaced in pain with sweat pouring down profusely. His fear made his entire small muscle stiffen. Finally there was a cold that enveloped his entire body, but felt he was twisted by a snake.

At least he opened his eyes, a skull appeared until Chiharu shouted in surprise.

“AAAA!!”

Chiharu woke up with a gasp of breath. Cold sweat continues to pour from the face, back and hands to his feet. His heart was beating too fast a sign he was so frightened, then some people rushed inside with panicked faces.

“What happened?!”

Brak!!

As he asked, Kizu opened the door violently.

“Nona Kinata?”

A dream in which a yokai has taken her freedom back occurs. This was because he fell unconscious after spewing out quite a lot of fresh blood.

“Lay first, Miss Chiharu.”

Yasha helps, he lays the woman back on the bed to make her body relax for a moment. Just then his hands became cold and stiff, as if death was coming to pick him up.

“I ...aku ...I'm still alive?” Chiharu was trying to wonder if she was in the real world or in a dream. As well as asking if he is currently alive or not.

As if this wasn't real, Chiharu even wished that this was just a dream behind a dream.

“Nona Chiharu please calm down. We're here to help. Therefore I make sure Miss is fine,” said Yasha.

“Ba-fine. Mr Akio ..Where is it? I still haven't finished saying it, saying all,” said Chiharu who asked to be reunited with Akio.

“Mr Akio has not returned. You just sleep,” said Kizu.

To date there is no sign Chiharu will recover. Until he looks towards the window, the night sky that has arrived, Chiharu is aware that his current state might make him die horribly.

“Then I will tell you, please tell him later.”

“You better sleep.”

“Cannot. Not before my parents, my brother and sister, everything was healthy.”

Chiharu too forced herself to speak. Though if he forced himself constantly like this, especially if revealing the secret of yokai will make the curse in his body work.

And for example, he will lose blood, even though he is still alive he will definitely fall asleep and return to feeling nightmares repeatedly. Even the stinging smell of blood would never disappear from his nostrils.

“In there the shape of the skull but the original form is not formed evenly. Sometimes snakes are human. What is different, only on the part of his eyes that seemed to be hollow.”

Little by little, he revealed most of his secrets. Both in the dream and in the house. Every time they leave the house, Chiharu and the rest of the family will feel supervised because the figure is inhabiting their bodies.

Feelings like intimidation, fear to make nightmares like hell continue to repeat in their minds.

“One of my family members, my uncle who lived together was also once in my dream. Uncle was stabbed by hundreds of spears and the next day he was not breathing without the slightest injury to the body that should have been there,” said Chiharu once again.

There was a lot of blood that fell on his bed. Chiharu's life was on the verge, yet still she forced herself. Kizu and Yasha can't do anything if Chiharu has this much determination.

It could be said, Chiharu truly trusted Akio who could save his family.

“And when I fell asleep just now, there was a snake entangling me. He wanted to kill me in a dream after knowing what I am doing this time.”

“Nona—!”

Yasha will accompany him while taking care of this woman, while Kizu comes out of the room.

“Master heard it?”

Akio nodded his head.

“That woman trusts you so much. But just like the others, even Mr. Akio also returned empty-handed,” said Kizu staring softly towards the bottom.

“Not! We did not return empty handed. Here!” akashi said raising his voice while giving a fist of rice in a leaf wrap.

“You're stupid, huh?”

“Kizu, we've all heard what she said. And true what you said, we came back empty-handed. Absolutely no trace of the enemy.”

They seem to be giving up.

“But, inside the house. Maybe this is the key to the problem.”

“Inside the house?”

Nekomata cleared his throat and he replied, “Yes. Just now Mr. Akio told me. There's something in the house. Then, the yokai not only appear in dreams alone.“

“What do you mean they can all be saved?” ask Kizu.

“Tak like your usual self huh, Kitsune. Foxes like you worry about humans,” Nekomata quipped.

“Hey, quickly just tell me!”

“Mr Akio will go there again with Akashi to get this done,” Nekomata said then get off Akio's shoulders.

The night had come, and time was slow. The wind blows flowers as if to instill bad omens in every resident of the city of Gama. The Satsuki clan felt it too.

With his oni mask on, Akio leaned against the outer wall of Momoka's residence to watch the air around. Only around this is what changes, not with the air in the places around.

“Mr Akio, I'll drive around as per your orders!”

Akashi is most excited because he is unaware of this air, though he realizes he is currently unaffected by the feeling of fear that makes him retreat. Purely Akashi's nature is just like the characteristics on his bright red arm, he's really excited.

Slowly but surely. The faint aura was becoming more and more dense around Akio.

“Khe khe ..he is quite tough as well because it still survives.” The figure of something invisible, crept slowly to approach Akio who seemed to be sleeping in place.

It would be foolish if the foreign figure intended to ambush him.

Nah!

Because Akio also realized his existence is hidden behind the green grass.

“Mr Akio!” call Akashi from a distance.

Akio suddenly moved from his seat, then turned to Akashi while pointing his index finger to the front of his lips.

'For a moment I felt the presence of yokai around Mr. Akio. But now that there isn't, it means it's gone?' inner Akashi.

The one who came just now was not the yokai that he was targeting for now but rather the yokai that he had long been looking for in every corner of the country. Yokai controller, often hiding behind the shadow of objects and living things.

But its presence is too thin, so it cannot be ascertained whether the yokai disappeared or not.