Samurai Oni
MIZUNASHI MEETING WITH HONJOU

After learning that Akio has disappeared. The three soon returned to the Kuran region. Wishing that Akio was there, but he wasn't.

“If Mr Akio is not in Kuran, nor the Capital or any other place, then he has completely disappeared!” yell Kizu.

“True. Mr. Akio is nowhere. So, where exactly is he?” nekomata asked the grandfather who was busy eating his own food.

“Master Akio is dead? That's not possible! That's impossible!” Akashi lay helpless, thinking about the worst possible.

Neither Akashi, Kizu nor Nekomata. They were afraid when it was the female yokai that made Akio disappear. And as Akashi thought about the worst possibility was,

“Mati?”

“RULY!! HELP US, GRANDPA!” yell at the three of them simultaneously.

Unusual fear arises from thinking about the safety of others. It was very rarely done by them, but grandfather felt that they were too excessive in expressing it, even though it was their real panic face.

“Yasha! Where is Yasha?!”

“Here,” replied Yasha who appeared behind them. He carried a bag of fruit in a piece of cloth.

“Food ...,” Just looking at it made Akashi salivate. Akashi has not eaten fruit for a long time. “Ah, no!” But a second later he turned his face away and shifted his mind.

He tries to focus while revealing, “Yasha! Mr Akio disappeared!”

“Disappeared? What do you mean?” yasha didn't really understand what Akashi was talking about.

“Really! Mr Akio is missing! Hope he's alive!” Kizu shouted increasingly hysterically.

“Isn't it usually like that?” Yasha thought it was normal.

All fell silent. Silent moment. In the next few minutes, no one spoke. And then after that, they cry.

“No.”

Kizu, Nekomata and Akashi shed tears for Akio whose existence has disappeared.

“I'll explain. These few days, I heard rumors in the capital about the existence of women in all-white clothes.”

“Hm, then?”

“I warned this to Mr. Akio, for fear that it would become dangerous.”

“Wait a minute,” by Nekomata. “Woman all-white clothes, is she wearing a bridal suit or something?” ask Nekomata to make sure.

“Yes. Like that.”

“His face?”

“Not seen.”

“So. Then, that woman I met once. He yokai, then somehow he said that he would help Mr. Akio,” Nekomata said by lowering his gaze.

“Help? Not to kill him?”

“True. If it's not wrong he said it so.”

Nekomata told him everything he knew, both of the peculiarities of the foreign yokai. The power that definitely surpasses him or Kizu. The goal is not clearly legible, but what he said is surprising.

“Help Mr Akio to root out Oni?”

“I saw it right away, Yasha.” Takao reappears, this time coming out of Yasha's body.

“Eh, since when were you there?”

“Which is more important Yasha, the Samurai Lord seems to be really helped by the yokai. But, there are two,” said Takao.

“TWO?! ISN'T THERE ONLY ONE?!” pekik Akashi was shocked by Takao's statement.

“There's two. One is a woman, but the other one I don't know. And because I was scared, I decided to go.”

While grandfather, he just said casually, “Oh, you guys are so noisy. Even if he disappears for sure he will come back again.” With such a relaxed look on his face, he was indifferent.

***

On the other hand, Mizunashi came to visit the Southeast Fortress of Honjou. The barrier in that part had already returned to its original state, the rest only needed to rebuild the badly damaged inner fort.

“Honjou Eno is here?”

“Yes, Sir! Please login!”

Mizunashi Kage has come face to face with the arrogant man. The situation between them was not good enough even though the banquet was in plain sight.

They looked at each other quite seriously, so people would think that they were going to fight.

“Tell me what did you mean by coming here?” Honjou Eno started the conversation.

“Something happened in the castle, and you didn't come?”

“Sorry, I can't. You should have easily guessed the reason for what, right?” sahut Honjou's.

“Ya, okay. What about yokai? I feel weird about today, there's something I've forgotten and I don't know what it is.”

“Old men like you are natural to be senile,” he said.

“Repeat your words, and you will be affected, boy.”

“Alright, I'm sick of this joke. Mizunashi-san, I do not know what happened, so tell me something what I can do for you.”

“Alright, Honjou. I want you to look for the whereabouts of Samurai Oni.”

“Yokai-nya?”

“No Yokai. I said it because what I remember is just that.”

“Oh.”

The point of Mizunashi's arrival, is to ascertain where his memory stops and what is strange. Even though he could not remember anything anymore, he still felt the awkwardness. Then, even though he lost that memory, but he did not forget his purpose.

Namely; Samurai Oni aka Akio.

“Help me find him.” For a moment he sighed, and again he spoke, “Tak only you, I also ask for help to others.”

“So important is he?”

“Not only important. I hope to meet him and want to explain the events in the castle that day.”

“Terexistent.”

Honjou downed his drink in one go, then put the cup back before him. Then said, “I'll help as much as possible.”

Honjou keeps his promise to Akio's followers, that he won't divulge Akio's whereabouts that night. However, from now on, he had to accept Mizunashi's request, if he met once more on the Oni Samurai then that was when Honjou had to report it.

“But, what do you want to do with it?”

“I told you not to. I want to know the clarity that only he knows. About that castle, then Shogun's death.”

Honjou Eno was stifled in silence when she got a cynical look from him. Mizunashi was so serious about saying that he no longer suspected Akio of being the Shogun's killer, and switched to killing the Shogun and trapping Akio at the same time.

“Why? I can't believe there's such a possibility!”

“Then, I mean Mikio easily defeated by Akio?” mizunashi Sahut. With the intention of affirming that the real Mikio will not be that easy to defeat.

**

The two clan leaders discussed, the Akio followers who were yokai, and at the same time something had happened to a region, an unnatural snowstorm.