Samurai Oni
YUKI ONNA I'S

The day before Akashi's arrival. Kazuki Eichi who returned to his territory from the Capital, was silent on the border between the regions.

“Snow at the moment? It's freaky. It feels impossible for a season like this to appear suddenly.”

Kazuki along with his countless followers some were brought back, they started to enter a realm that seemed to no one else.

“Mr Kazuki, is there a cause that gives rise to anomalies in the weather? In the capital alone still feels hot.”

“It should only be Kuran who does not change the weather. But now Bama? I don't know what to say after seeing this peculiarity.”

“Mr Kazuki, a blizzard hits the region. What should we do?”

“There's nothing you can do. In addition to thinking this possibility was yokai.”

Since when it began, no one knows other than witnesses in the form of residents who live in Bama. However, no one Kazuki met during the trip. Until finally the group was scattered and lost.

***

That was the day before Akashi's arrival. But now it is a pity that Akashi got a less fortunate fate. He almost blends in with the snow.

“Excuse me, you live?”

“E-En ..tah.” Akashi answered in a very soft voice and trembled.

Now he saw the presence of a beautiful woman. Long black hair in a white kimono, he carried something as a head covering.

“You want me to help?”

Akashi has been difficult to answer. And then the woman helped him to stand up and put a straw head covering on Akashi.

As he said, “I'll help you.”

In his mind Akashi thought that this girl was very kind to unknown people. Akashi as a man may not be able to feel happiness when men are approached by women, but even so, he is quite happy because it turns out there are people who care about him other than Akio.

“Will I take you home. So I lead the way huh, lest you let go of my hand.”

“Good. I remember Mr. Akio like this. Really I ...very ..missing him,” lantur Akashi who almost fell asleep again.

Although the head covering was not so effective, but at least Akashi's head was not as cold as ice cubes before. Now, he was being led by the long-haired woman to his house.

“Hey, what's your name? Can I find out?”

“Ya.” Akashi nodded his head and replied, “Akashi. That's my name.”

“Oh, is Akashi? That's a beautiful name. Surely your parents thought that you were a bright light for the family.”

“Why can that be? I don't have parents anyway. And who gave me that name, I also don't remember.”

For a moment, the woman's steps stopped. Makes Akashi hit his shoulder. Then, the long-haired woman turned around while whispering softly,

“Then ...honey once.”

I don't know why it brings invisible horror. Akashi flinched silently, pecking himself with his eyes wide open at the foreign woman.

“Ka—!”

“Sst! Don't noise. In the snowy mountains, you can't be noisy at all. Let's continue the journey.” He fizzed softly with one finger held out to the front of his pink lips.

“By the way are you not cold?” ask Akashi.

“Cold is common for me. Oh yeah, you don't know who I am?”

“Hey, what's up all of a sudden?” Akashi, who was shocked and confused, did not know what to respond to other than asking the reason he was laughing.

“No. There is nothing.” The woman replied, shaking her head while holding back her amused laughter.

After a while he finally fell silent as well without taking Akashi to chat like before. The blizzard did not lessen in the least, Akashi felt restless since his encounter with the woman who was about to lead him to a house.

In which direction it went, he did not know. Even just learned that this place was a snowy mountain range. As usual, there were only snowy streets, snow-covered trees, as well as the sky that dropped thousands of pieces of snow. The cold continued to cling to his sensitive skin, hoping for at least something hot like fire but Akashi clearly knew that it was impossible to find in the snowy storm state it is today.

“Come, speed up your steps again. We'll be there soon.”

“Alright, but that sebim—”

“Already. Don't babble much,” he said as he pulled Akashi's hand and started walking faster.

A few steps ahead, they stopped after that. What was in front of him was not a house.

“Here?”

“Ya.”

Except cliffs.

“Hah?!” Akashi's eyes were wide open. He was surprised and unexpected. Thinking that, “Your house is across there?”

“Eh, not.” This woman was then confused as to what Akashi meant.

Let alone him, even Akashi himself was confused about what to react like after being faced with a steep cliff certainly.

“You mean think like that what, Akashi?”

“I think your house should cross the road across,” Akashi thought as he pointed ahead.

“You can see across? Wow great, I can't even see it because it's out of my reach,” said the woman with a forced smile.

“Then, what do we have to do in order to cross?”

'He's really stupid. Where might I live across what should be the borders of another territory, ' the woman's inner being.

From the beginning the intention of the woman with the white kimono and long black hair was not to help Akashi. Now, his original temperament has been revealed and Akashi is unaware of it at all.

“How to cross it, Akashi the Red Hand.”

“Eh?”

Akashi's body was pushed forward towards the cliff, Akashi looked back and briefly saw the ugly face of the woman. He looked very happy, a big smile on his back and the frown on his forehead was very clear.

Without having time to react due to being too easily fooled, Akashi was free-falling there. It went down the cliff in a pretty terrible snowstorm.

One of Akashi's faults will be flown away from there, it could also be that he fell into the sea because of this cold gust. Frozen to death due to extreme weather in Bama.

“Why am I being pushed? I'm not wrong anything. Ah ...don't tell me I was tricked?” That was how he thought even though it was too late.

Akashi was resigned once dropped, but somehow the back of his clothes stuck a branch that was strong enough, it was stuck in the inner wall of the cliff.

“I haunt ya?”

He had lost his footing, and now his life was just a matter of time. When he will survive, no one knows. Moreover, the purpose has not been implemented.

In addition to all that, Akashi who was already in the cliff, himself who might soon fall to the bottom, saw there are many skulls of both animals and humans.