Samurai Oni
RED BABY II

“I ask you to find Samurai Oni, please convey this also to Mr. Samurai outside, yes.” Hatekayama Hima.

“Good.”

The birth of a son in a family is the hope and happiness for everyone. But unfortunately there is no luck here, Mrs Hatekayama Hima. She is the wife of the late Shogun Hatekayama who has given birth to a third son in his castle, but there is another form behind the form of the red baby that is oni (demon).

Inside Kizu's private room within the Flower House, someone knocked on the wall of the window ledge. Kizu, who was resting inside, opened the window immediately.

“Mr Akio, what do you need at this time?”

“Red baby.”

“Listen to this! A red baby has been born in the castle of Shogun Hatekayama. And that red baby is Oni,” Yuurei (Takao) explained.

“It would be very dangerous. But if the extermination is done now will horrendous many people. His death will turn the entire castle into an enemy of Lord Akio.” Kizu explained.

“Yes. But where is possible if it continues to be left like this is not it?”

“Yes, I understand. But we have to finalize our plan well before acting.”

Kizu then looked at Akio seriously. There are things to talk about that seem no less important than the red baby.

“Mr Akio, there is yokai who has a beautiful human form. She is said to wear the bridal dress.”

“Then?” Akio didn't think it was important, but when it came to Yokai, it was definitely the sword that would move forward.

"I just need to slash it as usual once I find it." Akio wrote it on Kizu's palm.

“It is precisely because of that. I beg my lord, lest he fall asleep to the woman, Mister!” please Kizu. It turned out that all this time that was worried by Kizu.

“Hey, fox. You didn't know this guy wasn't so interested in a woman?” Takao.

“The ghosts of the past like you know what about Mr. Akio. Every human being especially that male ...,”

Not yet finished speaking, Kizu had already been left behind by the two of them. Akio went to a place not far from Hatekayama Castle.

“If you think it'll make you hard, fine then. I'll monitor from the other side. Mr Samurai.”

Takao who was in the form of a ghost from the beginning then left Akio's body. Akio was just standing by leaning his back against a box nearby.

Lucky he took the lonely road, no one would realize that Akio was there.

At the moment of thinking so, there was actually someone approaching. She was a woman wearing white clothes and a hood. Wedding dress.

“Hm?” Akio looked up his head, and started to feel strange in the surroundings.

'Barrier?' akio thought in his mind.

“True.” The woman replied.

“You who?” As he asked, Akio pulled the sword from its sheath.

After thinking about it, it is strange to see one road leading to the capital city is actually quiet. But it turns out that there is a barrier between reality and replicas. Akio is currently trapped in it with a woman who is thought to be a yokai.

“I expect you to come faster. Finally ...Eventually we met and are now alone with you.”

“And I want to help you eliminate that lowly demon. And as usual you did not change,” he said then disappeared without a trace.

The barrier disappeared, knowing that Akio was in the crowd. Rushing he left before people began to become aware of his existence. Hiding in a small alley between the two houses, Akio fell silent by concentrating his concentration around.

“I'm sure he's not dead.”

After a while there he did not feel any yokai presence. Feeling saturated, Akio finally returned to the House of Flowers.

“Kizu, warn about the red baby to the people in the castle.”

“Good! I understand, Mr. Akio.” Kizu responded excitedly.

All the speech and actions of yokai women are very different compared to other cursed yokai. Because the yokai did not emit the slightest desire to kill him. It was a little strange and made Akio's feelings uneasy.

He was also afraid that the yokai would completely eliminate the red baby in front of many people later. That was why Akio had the most clever Kizu— in disguise immediately warning of a foreign presence on the red baby against the people in the castle.

“Mr Mizunashi, Mr. Kazuki, Mr. Uchigoro. I feel a sense of awkwardness inside the palace.”

Disguised as a swordsman samurai, Kizu told the three founding clans. After they went inside, Kizu quickly changed her disguise to an old grandmother. He played a role this time as someone who had just helped deliver Lady Hima.

“Where is it awkward? I don't feel the slightest strangeness.”

“No, wait. The haw is slightly thin and cold, originally from ...,”

“From the baby,” said Kizu who was becoming an old grandmother. He just arrived at the door, saying it with a serious face.

“Bay?”

Gradually the three of them began to feel a strange feeling in the baby behind the curtain with Lady Hima. Not from his own physical form but the form of the shadow of the baby.

“Wait a minute! What's the matter?” The woman who helped the delivery came back, he felt the presence of the samurai here was very disturbing.

“Sorry because we are disturbing, but one of us feels the oddity in a newborn baby.”

“What are you talking about? The baby's fine. Nothing happened to the baby or the mother. It's there! You all go!”

“Tapi—”

“Please wait a minute, did you all not see the shadow from behind that curtain?”

Mrs Hima who heard the conversation between them was surprised, she became reminded of the Samurai Oni who came here this morning. However, the mother will not be able to suspect her own child.

“Shadows? What shadow do you all mean?” ask the woman with a word.

The samurai, Mizunashi, Uchigoro and Kazuki were apparently unaware of the strange shadow of the baby. They were all just looking at an ordinary shadow, unaware that the shadow was actually an Oni shadow.

'Didn't everyone see it? Then Mr. Akio is great because he can see his true form from the shadows. It's great Mr. Akio.' He was unconsciously praising the greatness of his master in his own mind.

'No, no. It's not time for this.' He returned to his feet while shaking his head.

Kizu lowered the index finger that was pointed at the shadow. Then he stared hard at the woman beside him.

And said, “You all can't see it. So have to use forceful means to get him out of his hiding place.”