Samurai Oni
FACT

When the foggy mind and difficult to control it to make the foreign memories reappear again, Akio feels bad. Very bad at dealing with such a thing. How many times he hit the wall is useless and makes him sick and bleed more.

But the voice of his followers. Akashi, Nekomata, Kizu and Yasha make it back to consciousness, he fully awakens. It was as if the fog had disappeared, and the various negative emotions that were about to devour his soul had now disappeared unceasingly.

Just from hearing their roaring sounds, Akio reopened his eyes. Then unconsciously tears flowed out.

“Cih!” He reflexively said it while rubbing the two watery eyes.

“Mr Akio, is it okay?” Out of thousands of questions, this was all that came to their minds for the first time.

“Ya.” Then Akio answered him without looking them in the eye. Not because of fear but anxiety still lingers in him.

Anxiety for thinking this is all an illusion.

“Thank God!” they all four at the same time.

How shocking to Akio, he was suddenly hugged by them. Their embrace was very warm and made Akio's heart ache for some reason. Ras was afraid and anxious as if it was gone, as if everything he was thinking was spoiled in an instant.

“A-what are you all doing?” The voice shook, the nervous asked.

Yasha replied, “Man will embrace each other both friend and lover then family.” Reasonably.

“Mr Akio feels cold, maybe this will warm you,” Kizu said.

“This cat also thinks so. These feathers must be warm too, Mr.” Nekomata sat on his lap.

“Mr Akio, I'm so sad. I just suddenly thought what if Mr Akio died? After thinking about it again, I became so stupid.” Akashi who most felt the whole feeling of his master, he cried his own stupidity for this first time.

Warmth, friends, family, followers, whatever the expression between them. But in fact the relationship between them began to connect with the absence of blood but a strong bond of their respective desires towards Akio.

Akio too, realized. He shies away from what is called friendship. Indeed, he had become blind, always sloppy and warm-blooded without caring about or himself. But now, it has changed.

***

Kuran Region. Close to fresh water lake. The house that had just been built though not how much it was, was being inhabited by a grandfather.

“Grandpa! We're home!”

Tengu grandfather who saw them together at the door then denied it, “Ya. I told you he'd be home.”

“Not! We picked him up!” akashi Sahut.

“Ya, yes. What's wrong with you all?”

Grandfather's eyes may have weakened but he still knew that something had happened to them. Including Akio.

“I'm fine.”

Akio, who had been helped to walk, now stepped in by himself and accidentally dropped the oni mask from behind his clothes. Then he fell down, on his stomach, and in an instant he fell asleep.

“Mr Akio!”

“Tenace. He's only been asleep for a while. It seemed like his mind and energy were drained away. He also looks battered. Just this first time I met him injured.”

Retsuji and Onryou's swords are still intact. There is no visible scratch or something that impurity him. While the user does not look healthy.

“Grandfather, Mr. Akio is really involved with that woman's yokai.”

Hearing that from Kizu, it seemed that grandfather was very surprised.

All eyes were on Akashi. Akashi himself was confused as to what to say. He then kept his head down, remembering everything he had heard and seen.

“Akashi, you must know something, right?”

“Yes. Right, that woman exists. He appeared in front of both of us. And before Mr. Akio came to his senses, I had a chance to hear a conversation between them.”

“They?”

“At first Bama was hit by a blizzard, I found Mr. Akio chained and unconscious. Then the Snow Woman spoke to him.”

“What? You heard them talking but you didn't do anything?”

“How can. Because the Snow Woman froze my inner and outer body. But somehow I can still survive, and thanks to that I can hear them even just a little.”

“Then? What did you hear?” ask Kizu.

“Because I have a form exactly like a human being, then God cannot kill him. That's what I heard,” said Akashi.

The situation became quiet after hearing the words from Akashi. They were all confused as to what they should say or respond to what he was talking about.

“Those words sound complicated because you heard them a little. But Dewa?”

“Yes. I didn't hear wrong. The god they mentioned was Mr. Akio.”

Not only grandfather, everyone who was there was very surprised to hear another fact revealed through Akashi's mouth. Kizu, who felt Akashi was joking, yelled at him.

“Are you kidding?! Don't talk weird!”

“I'm not kidding. I heard it with my own ears as my body slowly recovered at that time,” Akashi said, shaking his head.

But everything that is heard is not yet certain enough that it is a fact or reality. Kizu, Nekomata and Yasha and Naruhaya's grandfather are masked tengu, they have the same thought; this is still not completely.

“Yokai that woman doesn't look hostile to Mr. Akio. But I'm sure he'll do something related to in the past.”

“Last time?”

“Iya. Mr. Akio seems like a person in the past.”

“Not.” Grandpa was denying. Then everyone was surprised and then looked at him question mark.

“Not people in the past but people who are reborn in this present era,” he continued by revealing something.

“Grandfather, what exactly are you hiding?”

“There is nothing to hide, but I can't say much other than the person himself saying it,”.

Grandfather did not reject the story, but did not really know the clarity about Akio himself.

It could be said to be connected by destiny in the past. Reincarnation of people in the past. A beginning of the birth of the cursed yokai and the secret of the establishment of Shinpi-tekina. All of that will slowly be connected in one point because of someone later.

**

The next morning. Every day they went on as usual. Enemies, comrades, or neutral people rarely exist. Habits that are often done, fighting and thinking have become daily food.

Samurai Oni—Akio Included.