Samurai Oni
LIPSTICKER

They all could not see what they were supposed to see. Even for Lady Hima as the mother of the red baby alone, she could not see the true form of the baby either.

At worst, the oni looks very happy. Behind the curtain he grinned widely, and felt that Kizu was being glimpsed by him there.

“Mr Akio, they are still in doubt. Please, just do it, let them know the taste.”

As a result Kizu returned to Akio without producing what was expected. Akio had expected this to happen sooner or later. But in addition he also did not expect that the samurai could only feel his presence a little.

His Retsuji sword, Akio stared at the sword for longer than usual. Somehow he thought because of this sword, he could see the true form of the red baby.

"Can't." Akio wrote his sentence using the tip of his foot. While he leaned back and folded both arms to the front of the chest.

“Uh, this is really annoying. If I could, I would lighten Mr. Akio's burden as soon as possible.”

Kizu also felt very sorry for not being able to do anything, even the task given by Akio alone was not completed in the least.

“I'm sorry, Mr. Akio.” He calmed down, bowing his head until Kizu's forehead touched the ground there. He looked more like a beggar than he was apologizing.

“That's because the samurais weren't sober. After all, I'm not so sure if they can do that right in front of Mom's eyes from her own target right?” sahut Takao who suddenly appeared from the stomach of Akio.

“Hey, don't play around in the Master's body!” amuk Kizu's.

“I'm a ghost. And don't scold me anymore,” said Takao then hiding behind Akio's back.

“Hei, come here!”

"Go, you two!" The command sentence was written clearly on the ground, Kizu and Takao were shocked, then silent for a moment.

Seeing that they were silent, Akio left. Kizu and Takao follow suit. Once they realized that they were still following him, Akio turned around.

“Go from the capital. Now too!” This time Akio shouted decisively, raising his voice so that the two of them would understand.

And just as they were leaving, came again a half yokai who was never expected. Akashis.

“Finally we meet too, Mr Akio!”

“Your voice is too loud!” akio shouted as he clenched Akashi's head to sit quietly curled up before him.

“But, Mr. Akio. I'm looking for that cat. I don't know where it went, because until now he has not returned to the fortress,” said Akashi fretted.

“That's because you've gone too far from there.”

“Oh, really? Then I'll join Tu—”

“Stop. Go awayl. From this. Now also.”

Akashi who heard his sentence was broken like that, made him silenced and difficult to rephrase it.

“Why?”

“Go. Meet Nekomata at the fort.”

Akashi pulls the edge of Akio's clothes, and spontaneously it makes Akio stop stepping foot.

“Before that, Mr. Akio. I want to say something.”

It seems that the news of the bird about the lady's yokai began to spread everywhere. Not only Kizu, who got the news of the bird from the House of Flowers. Even Akashi. He came here by jumping over every roof of the house without being discovered, at least the way he hid had begun to develop. And thanks to his ability, Akashi so heard the news of the bird.

“Yokai women. The form of a woman and wear all-white clothes and a thin cloth hood is just as white on the head. She wears makeup, most prominently on the part of her lips.”

Little by little Akashi explains the characteristics of the woman's yokai.

Suddenly, the eyes behind his oni mask widened in shock. He did not expect that the lip blush was mentioned, because it made him remember the dream in the morning.

“Red?”

“Ya, Mr. Akio.”

“Then why?” He chose not to involve what he saw in the dream. Precisely indifferent. Even consider the yokai is the yokai as usual.

And now he feels his presence, but because there are many people and Akashi who come, he can not do anything.

“Mr Akio?” Akashi was also very surprised to find Akio's response was not as expected.

“I smelled that woman in Mr. Akio's clothes. So I think I should say, that yokai is different like the yokai spider in the fortress,” Akashi said, shaking his head.

“I know.”

Still indifferent, Akio rushes to leave Akashi. But Akashi always kept him in the way as if he wouldn't let Akio go.

“Do not go alone. I now smell more, smell the woman.”

“If you are aware, then quickly go.” He whispered softly and pushed Akashi away from him. Soon Akio went to the top, where he felt the presence of the yokai woman.

***

“One thought, dia.”

The day with the sun rising above the head. Many residents do activities without being disturbed, also some enjoy their day by sitting quietly.

In addition, there is a pressing air. Yokai-oni's true presence is as a red baby. Neither his own mother nor those around him including the samurai were at all aware of this. Although it had previously been commemorated by Kizu and had even felt a little awkwardness but it seemed impossible.

“One-time pity. But relax, because I'll do your job. And also so that you can rest at least for a while.”

Currently, the yokai lady in the bridal gown was in another area. Not being in the Capital City, and something Akio was chasing turned out to be just a butterfly perched on a pole, not the presence of the yokai itself.

“One thought, dia.”

He went to see a cat. Not an ordinary cat but a cat monster commonly called Nekomata.

Nekomata was surprised that suddenly a lady smelling yokai in her white bridal suit came to him. He was silent with wide eyes, his mouth gaping and unable to speak.

Afterwards, the woman turned around and began to stare while saying something.

“One pity, she. Life and death have to choose and give up something. Because that's ...,”

With a shorter posture but also no taller than her master Akio, the woman took a crouching sitting position. Then smile.

“I'm coming for you.”

He was about to reach for the cat but Nekomata took a slow step back.

“Who are you?” Nekomata asked while being cautious.

“Nekomata, there are things you should tell the samurai you know best. Tell him, "I'll do what you can't. Because it's wait", huh?”

The message was finally delivered, and Akio reacted in surprise while feeling humiliated.

“Who needs yokai help? I don't even need you all.” It was easy to say so in front of Nekomata.