Samurai Oni
YOKAI TIME CONTROLLER
A few moments before.
Yasha Manabu arrived early to Tama City, which is close to the capital. Sneaking amongst humans, it was fortunate that he could disguise his smell and existence as he was a cursed yokai.
With a long, dark black sword, he slashed at one yokai creature that had a funny shape. They are both black and have one eye. It is quite easy to defeat him, because the creature can only do mischief. Although it is said not so dangerous, once this creature makes people die because of his excessive ignorance.
Nah!
“Good.” Yasha felt excited because this was the first time she held a sword. But of course he had learned how to use it, through the samurai from the way he saw it as well as the practice directly with Akio before.
“It's over.” That was how he thought after sheathing the sword.
Kizu and Nekomata arrive simultaneously, and they both enter the house, where Yasha is also inside.
“Wah! What is it?!”
How shocked Kizu and Nekomata were to enter. Yasha, who was not so conscious, immediately turned to the direction pointed by her friend.
It was unexpected that Yasha was unaware of the existence of one other yokai.
“Wait a minute, you two can get in here?”
“Home Master let us in, and he is leaving now out of fear. There are no samurai around. No need to worry,” Kizu explained.
“So ..what is this thing?” Then Yasha turned her eyes once more on this one strange creature.
It is round like a handball but the outer surface looks like a fibrous brown bark. Then the strangest thing is, the front is white without a stain.
Sometimes he makes a sound, “Kikuk! Clumsy!” Like the sound of a clock ticking, or maybe a bird chirping. Yasha et al did not know of any such creature.
“Where did he appear?”
“Check the barrier, is it torn or not!?” Yasha gave orders to Kizu.
Soon Kizu went to check on him, and he saw no cracks or damage at all from the outer barrier of this region.
“No, Yasha!”
“He emerged from the ground, just like the other damned yokai. From year to year useful barrier is now weakened due to the absence of Shogun Hatekayama,” said Yasha.
Feeling strange and his vigilance increased, Yasha slowly drew her sword again. The fox-shaped Kizu groaned, as did the two-tailed Nekomata and fire. They were wary of the strange creature.
Clack! Clack!
Strange sounds appear and the yokai also moves sideways, not rolling like a ball. What used to be plain white now appears some black scratches.
“He intends to escape?!” Kizu prepares to chase.
Yasha stretched her left arm and said, “Don't first!”
Yasha was intending to watch her movements. And the longer the ball went sideways, the slower it went and stopped after a few seconds and circled the room.
“He must have tried to attack!” Just as Nekomata shouted, as soon as the ball that had many black scratches on its body part jumped towards them, Nekomata's reflexes leapt backwards.
Nekomata was shocked, and so was Kizu. Yasha immediately pointed her blade to aim for the blind spot of the yokai. But suddenly, Yasha's movement stopped completely, after the ball turned to face him.
“Stop?”
“Not only the movement, Yasha also stopped in that position!” nekomata Sahut.
“There is something wrong.”
Nekomata agrees with Kizu's words, and jumps towards the ball. Intending to use the fire but the same thing happened as Yasha before.
“Hei, Neko! You all right?! Hey!”
Kizu did not really understand because the incident just happened without anything as a marker. Kizu glanced in all directions to make sure of something.
“Nothing has changed. Unless the ball is still spinning up there.”
Kizu changed his form into a man, he took a vase and then threw it towards the ball. And the same thing happened.
“Time ...terhent?” think Kizu.
A second later the vase fell and broke. Yasha and Nekomata move again but because the ball is moving, it causes them to collide with each other.
“Aduh!”
“Nekomata?”
They were also hit by small fragments of vases that had fallen off. Yasha and Nekomata exchanged glances with each other full of questions in their minds.
“Kizu, do you know anything?”
“Time stops when you try to attack that thing. And don't you guys know? I mean what happens when you know you guys stop moving?”
“Stop moving? This Nekomata doesn't really understand what you're saying, Kitsune.”
“Call my name, Kizu.”
“Your name is not cool.”
“Don't poke!”
“You two stop fighting. Then Kizu, is it really time to stop?” sahut Yasha then asked.
“Yes. You guys just look at this.”
Kizu took the vase shards and threw them back at the moving ball. The fragment stopped suddenly as soon as it was about to approach the ball. It was then that Yasha and Nekomata understood Kizu's words.
“Reacted to be right time stopped. I just feel weird. I thought Nekomata was moving too fast, so hit me,” Yasha thought.
“I will even attack after you stop Yasha,” Nekomata said.
“Yokai who came here more and more strange course.”
“I agree.”
This fight will have no end if they move recklessly. If doing anything would bring his time to a standstill, then it would be impossible to even catch him.
“How about we attack simultaneously?”
“Good idea!”
The three of them started moving at the same time. Yasha used a sword, directly aiming at him from the front as a diversion. While Kizu and Nekomata from behind to ambush him.
“Strike!!”
DONG!!!
Such a loud buzzing sound rang out, in an instant they all stopped moving. Time has stopped, with no one able to stand up to it. Like the laws of nature are in his hands.
“Kikuk! Clumsy!” The same sound as the chirping of birds or the sound of the clock.
***
Kama City.
“Akio, we will immediately deliver the contents of the prophecy to you. Maybe tomorrow.”
“Ramalan?”
“Yes. Just look forward to.”
After a long conversation with Sakanoue, Akio left. He quickly headed to a place where his followers were in need of help.
It took a lot of time to take 20 minutes because it had to pass through the capital city in the middle of the island. Arriving at the city of Tama, Akio was silent for a moment while staring at one of the houses that had a barrier.
“Barriers inside barrier? Is he a yokai who wants to cheat? Hm, so silly.”
In a single slash, a blue light like a small meteor slashed through the barrier until it disappeared. Simultaneously Akio also slashed at the body part of the ball that controlled time.
“TUAN AKIO?!” All were shocked to learn of their master's arrival.