Samurai Oni
THE TERRITORY CHANGED

Losing the Lord is like losing life. They become meaningless even to the point of cursing themselves. But they all decided.

“Let's split up to find Mr Akio!”

“Yes! I agree with you!”

Already this whole day Akio did not come home, of course they were all very restless. Except for the tengu grandfather who had always been relaxed from the beginning as if he had never lost anything. Or maybe resigned because Akio is very happy to disappear.

“Be careful all of you!” Grandpa waved his hand, letting them go.

“Yes, we'll go. Whether it takes some time or a few days, we will be back soon, grandfather,” Yasha said.

“No need to say goodbye to the old man,” said Kizu coldly.

“True. There is no point in saying goodbye,” Akashi agreed.

The four of them will split from one region to another, in order to expand the search to the fullest. However, this method will take a lot of time regardless of how many days.

And Akashi, currently in Bama City. The territory of the Kazuki clan, Daimyou in place of Kazuki Eichi. Something has happened to a region, an unnatural snowstorm.

“Any, what is this place?”

The weather changed drastically. It looks like a natural disaster rather than the usual weather changing. No clouds but white mist rained down on him violently, then the footing on his feet was softer than he thought. After Akashi lowered his gaze, he knew that his land was snow.

“Worthy cold. Uh, wait. Is it winter now?” thought Akashi.

He began to shiver in the cold, his whole body trembling. Akashi could barely move, but he forced himself. He walked over the snow piles while hugging his own body tightly, hoping that the piercing cold would not hurt his body.

“Mr Akio ..is here? Mr. Akio, answer my call, Mr. ..” call Akashi with a great vibrating voice.

Smelling smells like his usual habits now he can't do in the middle of a snowstorm. Moreover, he had to break through to which direction the blizzard attacked, not to mention that he had to refrain from the cold that would make him freeze to death later.

“Hold, hold, hold, hold. Hold this cold!” akashi encourages himself. The more he exclaimed strongly, the stronger he ran on the thickening pile of snow.

But, it is useless that he can hold it. Next to his physical strength was half yokai and half demon. Where the endurance of his body is much lower than any yokai, Akashi will not be strong enough to withstand it. In the end, he fell on the road.

On his stomach over a pile of snow, his dimly-witted eyes tried to keep his eyes open. He is maintaining a consciousness that is increasingly thinning.

“Ah, price. Mr. Akio ..not found yet. He disappeared, where did he go? Someone ...please,” murmured Akashi.

A second later he fell asleep, but a second later he immediately woke up.

“Wire!! Can't! Can't die!” peekik Akashi while wagging his long hair, to clean the snow that accumulates on top.

Hurry up and get back on the journey. I don't know which way it went, because since entering the Bama region, no house was seen let alone humans. He simply saw a snowy forest, snowy land, then a blizzard that produced a white mist blocked his view.

Honestly, Akashi had trouble handling this kind of thing, but he continued to struggle until he finally found a clue, after one of his legs reddened by the cold stumbled across a stone.

While complaining of pain, he kicked the stone. That's when Akashi finds a clue in the form of a torn cloth belonging to someone. Akashi tried to pick it up carefully, then sniffed the remaining smell.

“This smell, Mr Akio?!”

Using his dog-like sense of smell, though he doesn't quite remember what clothes his master wore, but at least Akashi's sense of smell is quite useful.

“Mr Akio is in this place. But where else do I have to find him? There were no traces or smells left. Ah ..sucks.”

Akashi grew tired, and he began to lay down his snow-covered body. Let him feel cold, until his whole body continues to tremble endlessly. In addition to feeling pain, Akashi also felt warmth from nowhere it came from.

“Eh?”

Slowly something happened to his pile of snow. He felt his body getting more and more mired inward. Intrigued by what happened, Akashi got up from there and then dug into something he thought was a source of warmth.

After digging through the snow, he found nothing but the rest of the ground. Akashi seems disappointed because he thought there would be something that would make him warm.

And then left without knowing that the fire appeared behind the rest of the land earlier.

“Mr Akio, Mr Akio ..”

There was nothing left but a snowstorm continuing to hit him. Akashi only keeps a rag tearing that is supposedly Akio's. As he walked, he continued to search for his master's whereabouts and hoped that Akio would meet him.

“What about Kizu and others? Should I go back and ask them for help?” akashi thought, he stopped moving. Turning around, finding no other way but his last trace there.

“No! I am the sword of Mr. Akio, so why ask for help obscure creatures like them, hmph!” A sense of prestige has twisted his brain that was about to freeze, Akashi resumed his search without the help of anyone.

There was little intention that was later suppressed easily by him himself, for He did not want to be useless to Akio's "Switch", which is why he was trying to reach it himself.

“Please wait for me, Mr Akio!”

That's how it happened. After a futile struggle. Akashi without wearing thick clothes and even barefoot, he who forced himself to continue moving through the blizzard, had ended horribly.

The second time he fell in a prone position. Akashi's consciousness weakened in such a short time that he himself was unable to revive his consciousness.

“Tuan ...Akio ...,” Frozen lips call the name of the master. Fingers are hard to move as if they are gone.

A woman dressed all in white appears, but her clothes are very different from the yokai she knows. The woman appeared in the middle of the storm even greeting Akashi with her gentle smile as if the two of them were in a flower field.

“Sia ..pa?” Akashi asked.

“Happy day.” The woman spoke up.

Like a dream, no. This must be a dream. Nothing else and nothing is a dream. Because an oddity has happened to Akashi's body. He who had been buried in snow, then a woman who had just come was like a dream.

Thinking in his mind, 'I never felt like a woman. Then why am I dreaming of an angel?' thought.