Samurai Oni
YASHA'S BEING TARGETED?

“I was from the beginning wondering, what is the ambition as strong as? But without knowing it, and just by looking at it I already know. Mr. Akio will be able to do it.“

Clataks!

Inside the newly formed house, Yasha placed her tea cup onto a stone coaster.

“Then, I will excuse.”

Something like smoke swirled around him, and in an instant Yasha's existence disappeared and in an instant she moved to the Capital City. Not as Yasha, a polite and smiling man but a small child with a short weapon tucked behind his waist.

“Even this existence, no longer wrong!” Then, coinciding with Yasha's arrival, the four-eyed Yokai feels an existence as powerful as oneself.

He felt restless, he seemed to panic a little and began to be wary of the existence he felt. Whether it was because of Yasha's arrival or because of something else, it was still unclear.

Because all this time Yasha always hid her presence. As a complete yokai in the absence of human blood flow, no one knows the true figure even Akio himself never knows.

“Mr Akio disappeared in that big castle. Well, do I have to infiltrate inside to find out something?”

The four-eyed Yokai, whose origin is unknown, will not let the figure he feels roam for longer. Yasha is near Hatekayama Castle.

There, the female servants paced. To there and here. While the men look to fix a hollow wall that is on the 3rd level in the castle.

Yasha was about to go inside but her steps stopped because of something. He glanced back while saying, “What do I have guests?” She smiled at his little smile, then walked away from the castle.

At first glance there is nothing strange, but the clattering of one's feet is very different from those of humans. So that Yasha also easily distinguish and know that the figure is eyeing him.

“Guests arrive at times like this. I should be happy or just annoy ya?” he rushes by speeding up the steps.

The figure was getting closer even though Yasha had accelerated her path even to the point of running. Once he turned and changed his form into a cat, he still did not change his initial position. He continues to be pursued by the same figure, no matter who it really is.

“Hm, this is troublesome. What should I do?”

“Stop doing the no-no! I know it's you!” exclaimed the figure with a loud male voice booming in this narrow alleyway.

Yasha stopped walking, but did not wait long after that she again ran using all four legs. Run as fast as possible, from one street to another to blend into the crowd and hide behind a small board.

“I hope he stops stalking me soon.”

“Or not?” continued. Yasha still heard the enthusiastic footsteps, was in a hurry and made Yasha have no choice but to turn herself into a bird.

Using two wings, it spread wide and flew into the sky. That way a figure who is a four-eyed yokai won't be able to chase after him that easily.

“Ck, she escaped!”

***

After a few minutes had passed, Yasha bumped into a woman with the same form of a child as before.

Bruk!

“Ah, sorry.”

“No. No. ..no? Wait a minute!” That soft voice slowly turned into an extremely resolute like a man.

And it turns out that the woman Yasha hit was Kizu. Coincidentally Kizu has returned from the Kama region and is in the Capital with the form of Kinata.

“Kizu 'kah?”

“Ya, right. It's me, Yasha Manabu. I was being chased by a heartless creature, so I turned myself into this.”

“From that, why are you here? What about the Yama area? Mr Akio has not been found, has he?”

“Yes, as you expect. Mr. Akio is still unaccounted for. Where it went I did not know and was trying to find it. But as Kizu saw, I had to deal with the heartless creature,” said Yasha, complaining and trying to find another way.

“Don't be pessimistic that way. But the Yama area is a little further away from the Capital City. How did it get here?”

“At first I want to investigate starting from the castle.”

“So you mean, just started looking but already chased yokai so?”

“True, true.” Yasha nodded her head repeatedly while commenting on the smile looking at Kizu with cold eyes.

“Nekomata doesn't seem to have made it to the Capital yet, which means he's still looking for Mr. Akio. Same with Akashi 'does?”

“Better we find a hiding place now.”

Yasha who is chased, then Kizu who has no other choice should take her. But at least Yasha with the form of a small bird. He was perched on the edge of Kizu's indoor window in the House of Flowers.

“What is this place safe?”

“Don't doubt it. There are a lot of people in the house. So I think he won't be able to show himself here.”

“Why does Kizu think so?”

“If thought through the way he chased you, surely he had some sense and was unlike any other damned yokai. Plus, the samurai did not act then it means he is good at hiding his existence.”

“Oh, true too. Really smart, Kizu.” Yasha complimented.

“Stop. Don't praise me. Then, how should we now?”

Kizu had previously been in the Yama area, intending to meet Akio's mother but he could not because of Yamamoto Kaeda, Akio's father. That was why he could only circle around other areas within the Yama region, after which he immediately returned to the Capital.

Moreover, there were things that Kizu could not do carelessly, and it had something to do with the hiding place of the two of them at this time.

Namely; House of Flowers. This place is Kizu's workplace as a geisha. He was called because there were customers who wanted to meet him. And because the owner of the Flower House refused to refuse, especially the customer was fairly rich.

“So therefore Kizu came early in the Capital?”

“Yes. Such is. Yasha, by the way why don't you go to the other side?”

“I just want to find a shortcut. If I find a little clue through the place where Mr. Akio was last, then maybe we will soon find his whereabouts.”

“I've tried it, but there's nothing left. Besides I told you the other day.”

About what Kizu meant, was a woman with a thin bridal dress and hood. Even so the woman's face was completely invisible except for the lip line with her reddening.

“I think the person chasing you is that woman. That's why I thought that he wouldn't dare to act in front of so many people.”

“But the one who found me was a man. Not a woman,” Yasha said.

Kizu was stunned to hear it. Then ask, “So there really are two yokai who are after Mr Akio? And you too?”

“Yes. Maybe.”