Samurai Oni
SAKANOUE BENJIRO

From season to season, the cursed yokai become more and more. The barrier that was outside Shinpi-tekina was rendered useless as if yokai was not needed to break through the barrier.

However, even so. The barrier also blocked their power. Once upon a time, the barrier was torn down easily and it was because yokai were much different in level compared to the other cursed yokai. If the ordinary level of cursed yokai is on average black and smoky but if it is at an extraordinary level they have a real physical form. Some are even very similar to humans.

For example, Yasha. He claims to be a yokai; a memory. Whether it is true or not. He is very different from Nekomata or Kizu the Fox of the Undercover Expert. It is very different from a half-life like Akashi.

“Why should it now rain?”

For now, after deciding how his life is next. Akio was heading to a place where someone he was going to meet could help him for something.

Close to the City of Dama but also not too close. The most angular area, the waterfall part of Kama city.

A bare-chested man was sitting under a waterfall with his hands together in front of his chest. He meditates while closing his eyes, solemnly making the waterfall flow to avoid him.

“There's someone?”

In a position of not so heavy rain, the man realized the arrival of Akio.

“Yes. Sorry to interrupt.”

“Oh ..it turns out it was you Akio. Why did you appear before me after all this time evading the samurai?”

“I just thought that the founding clan already knew of my whereabouts. Without killing intent but cooperation. There's something I need through you. Am I bothering you?”

For a moment he was silent. Then ending his meditation, he approached Akio.

“Ya, slightly. But if Akio needs me, then I don't mind.”

“Aren't you going to get sick quickly when training in a waterfall when it's raining?” akio thought as he raised his head.

“Ah, true too. But I'm not a sick person.”

Akio is with a man. Yasha Manabu, the polite man Akio once knew was hunting a one-eyed yokai, black in color and looking like urchins. Yasha hunts him down with Mikio's black sword, with the power that Yasha can touch and control, then Yasha will easily use the great sword to slash the target creature.

It was pretty easy to do it yourself. He even had to hold back in front of many people so as not to issue his existence as a cursed yokai. It desperately held its energy out of the body.

“If there is a Mr Akio here, then I am very happy and may get a compliment. Is that right, Mikio?”

Back to Kama, the corner.

“So what do you need until you have to meet me?”

This smiling gentleman was one of the leaders of the samurai clan, the founding clan of the country. Bakanoue Benjiro's. He was a man who was as strong as his own other clans, yet also very diligent in any case. Too diligent no matter what comes his way.

“I heard from someone, regarding rumors of women in wedding dresses. Is it just a rumor or just really there?” ask Akio.

“You came all the way just to ask such a thing? Very rare.”

“I didn't just come to ask that. But before revealing my other purpose, then you must answer me about it first.”

“Buffed son. Well, it's not just a rumor. Not only was the woman even a man as well. He may be part of the Warrior of Hell.”

“Hm?” Suddenly there were interesting words for Akio to hear. Curious what Sakanoue meant, he asked, “Soldiers of Hell?”

“Speak as if you can defeat them alone.”

“Oh yes? I never said I could do it. So, what's your other goal?” Sakanoue again asked about the second reason Akio came to him.

“How is Mrs Hima?”

“I thought you had something to do. Lady Hima who forgot about the red baby was really unexpected. But you can't possibly do such an interesting thing.”

“He forgot it?”

“Ya.”

“Sorry, my second real reason is ..jasad Mikio.”

Sakanoue gasped in surprise. He fell silent with wide eyes, not expecting Akio to ask that.

“Jasad Mikio experienced a strange thing, from your expression you must have known it.”

Sakanoue Benjiro, not only him, there are several other samurai who know the condition of Mikio's body. Especially the samurai clans of the country. As Sakanoue recalled, the body once emitted black smoke just like a cursed yokai and certainly made him very anxious.

“Indeed why are you asking that?” From the tone or manner of speaking, Sakanoue's eyesight and expression changed drastically once he discussed it.

“You all accuse me that I killed him and killed the Shogun, right?”

“True. But that was the first time we saw it happen. His first victim was Tadashi, a servant in the Mizunashi clan. Then it's Shogun.”

“Ka—”

“But not anymore. We didn't accuse you after knowing something about Mikio's body. The first time I saw him was me,” said Sakanoue.

“But it wasn't Mikio. Since the beginning Mikio has been dead a long time,” said Akio.

“Ya, I also know it.”

“And the real enemy is Ikiryo. She once appeared behind the shadow of a dreamy yokai, just ask Satsuki if you don't believe,”.

“Yes, I also know about it recently. Yesterday Bama was also exposed to a terrible incident from Yuki-onna. Geez, there is no end if hunting them one by one.”

“Take it easy. Both Ikiryo and Yuki-onna (snow lady), they have disappeared. Mikio's body had been empty from the start and his soul was swaying. I want to know how to free him as soon as possible.”

“So that's your second reason for coming here. Asking for answers to restore the wandering spirit ..'kah?”

On the one hand, the place where Yasha is located is Uchigoro Region, Tama city. Close to the capital. It seems that Yasha found another yokai, and now Kizu and Nekomata are with her.

“What kind of yokai is that?” ask Nekomata. He has changed. In its large, hairy form, it has two long tails. There was a fire around him that was his.

“I don't know. It's best to get rid of him as soon as the host here comes,” thought Kizu in her fox form.

“Do not rush. He's this is a little weird.” Yasha said otherwise. It was Ruh Mikio who warned that the yokai was a little different from the one he first exterminated.

The Yokai had a form as small as the previous yokai. Its dark brown color is exactly a log and there are white colors on the front a little strange.