Samurai Oni
Punishment Changes

Mizunashi Kage bowed his head respectfully. Keep smiling as long as he comes out of Hatekayama's Shogun room.

“I have to deliver this immediately to others!” sengas excited.

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Mizunashi Kage has just come out of the castle, meeting someone he knows. The man's name is Uchigoro Tamura. Just like it seems, Uchigoro Tamura is one of the founding clans of this country alongside the Shogun.

The man who has a snare wound on his neck, is caused when he once hung himself on a large tree. Suicide which then failed, then devoted himself to the country as he helped build it along with others.

“You just got out of the castle, met Shogun Hatekayama?”

“Ah, it was you. Yeah right, I just met him. Hey listen.” Mizunashi gets excited when she tells him something interesting.

Mizunashi Kage whispered, “Akio's punishment has finally changed a bit. The Shogun told me that from not being able to fight now to not being able to fight against humans,”.

“Wait, what's the difference?” tanya Uchigoro Tamura did not understand.

“Do you not understand what I mean? From who absolutely cannot fight and by not being able to fight against humans?” clearly again. Meant to compare between the two sentences that Mizunashi just uttered.

For a moment Uchigoro thought, for a few minutes he continued to cleared his throat while his mind was slightly distracted.

“Oh, I get it! Akio's punishment became lighter. Which means besides humans she can fight him?” Uchigoro.

“Yes, that's right! Great right? Ah, I am so grateful and relieved for it.”

“This is good news. Akio will be the greatest sword in the land. What's the name .. eradicating yokai!” uchigoro started to get excited.

“Your reaction is the same as mine, Tamura. I can't wait to tell the others this. In this way, Akio or Samurai Oni do not need to move around.”

“But, Kage!” Uchigoro yelled, holding back Mizunashi's footsteps about to leave.

“What's up?”

“Why has the Shogun ignored what he has done over the past year? Samurai Oni has shown her fangs, hasn't it?”

“You yourself have already reported about Akio's actions on the Shogun, but the proof is that the Shogun did not take action to punish him?”

Mizunashi shook his head for a moment before finally coming back to say something. “But that doesn't mean Naruhaya's grandfather has hidden that fact.”

“I see your point. Akio himself who slipped up to the mother ..city.”

The sentence Uchigoro slightly paused because he saw the shadow of someone on the roof of a house nearby. The curious Sontak Mizunashi followed his friend's tail.

“Samurai Oni?”

“Why did he show up in the morning? In the capital too,” he said he could not believe what they had seen.

The shadow is not only from the roof but from a samurai dressed in yukata complete with oni masks commonly seen at night.

The Oni samurai, who usually shows the trunk of his nose at night, has now appeared in the morning by noon.

Since his whereabouts had already been discovered, Akio rushed away from there. Running on the roof of the same house without leaving a sound with both feet that do not wear the pedestal.

“Mr Akio!!”

“Wait, Samurai Oni!!”

However, shortly after his departure, Mizunashi and Uchigoro gawked when they heard and saw two people chasing Akio.

“Eh who are they?”

“They call him Sir? Akio has followers?” ask the unbelieving Uchigoro.

It was not only the two of them who were chasing Akio on the same roof. Even the law enforcement seems to be moving.

“CAPTURE! CATCH HER! CATCH SAMURAI ONI!” exclaim them in groups, and rush in pursuit from below.

“We have to take care of them one by one, can you take care of them?”

“You mean you're the only one going after Akio?”

“Indeed so.”

Law enforcement, then two yokai of unknown clarity regarding them. Akio was really unlucky because he ran without direction until he finally touched the capital in broad daylight like this.

Although the blazing sun dazzles the eyes and makes himself who turned his back on the light will not be seen clearly, but still in the end he was pursued until obtained by all of them.

Akio's punishment change has been light, of course this will make Akio happy but now is not the time to attach importance to the punishment.

“Wait a minute!” Uchigoro Tamura stopped law enforcement from moving, he blocked him.

“What are you doing? We are busy now.”

“Please wait a minute. I want to ask what caused Samurai Oni—”

“He's been burgled. There is no clearer reason, because he should have been arrested!”

“Good, I quite understand. But, don't you give priority to the red hand?” Uchigoro.

“We also saw it with Samurai Oni. They must be related.”

Uchigoro flinched, a stiff smile on his back showing how much he could not believe the talk.

'If they knew that the Oni Samurai was Akio, would they lower the jitte in their hands?' thought Uchigoro.

“That, actually ...,” Uchigoro was about to buy time until Samurai Oni went further.

However,

“Do not hinder our duty. Because the Samurai Oni has done a tantrum in the soba store.”

“Ya?”

“Samurai Oni hit the mobile store, until it made all its food spill into the street. And not only that, the Oni Samurai also disturbed the residents. Especially the old man who was dropped into the fish river.”

“Hah? Seriously?”

“Yes, I'm very serious. Uchigoro Tamura.”

The whole mistake cannot be solved anymore. Uchigoro now feels that the change in punishment was useless for Akio and his behavior since childhood until now has not changed at all.

“Not only that, he had a chance to peek at me shower!” one of the women who came to them.

“What? That's not possible. There must be a mistake, he must have accidentally done it,” denied Uchigoro.

“What is your defense, Mr Uchigoro? It's like recognizing the Samurai Oni. Ah, don't tell me that Tuan–!”

They brandished the jitte at Uchigoro without hesitation after thinking, “Master must have recognized the Oni Samurai huh?”

“Eh, no! No, no!” As soon as this man panicked, he shook his head while raising his hands forward. Slowly he moved his legs to move backwards.

“Hm, the longer Mr. the more suspicious.”

“Please forgive Mister!” But not long after, came another samurai, he was a follower and man who was always beside Uchigoro Tamura.

“My master just thinks like that because every real man would not be able to do a profanity on purpose,” he explained and make them all understand.

“Then, Sir. There's someone who wants to see you,” whispered.

A man dressed all in black also wearing a shabby robe just as black came over.

Meanwhile, Akio had already returned to the top of the mountain.