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Chapter 5 - The Cliff

5 kilometers away from GreenValley High is a cliff overlooking the town. On its opposite direction is a beach with its soft pebbled white sand and turquoise water. Looking from the cliff towards the beach, a building is currently on construction. A man who who seems to have the same race with Mr. Taishi is tracing something from a map inside the cavern of the cliff. The cavern is huge and it has been transformed into an office but more likely a modern house. This is very an unexpected and unusual. The engineer and architect must probably be brilliant to be able to make a cave into a modern house in the inside but to look like just an ordinary cave on the outside. No one in GreenValley have been to this cavern except for the man who has built this. But he is not an ordinary man. He was a man who have felt pain and loneliness for decades. He has witnessed wars, famine and outbreaks of epidemic diseases and plague. He was tested by time and has been in search for an answer for a long period and finally this time he thinks he is soon to get one. Kenji is very sure of this.

The night he buried Miyaka on Mount Hakkyu was also the same night that he died. But was it really death? And how do you describe the feeling of being reborn into a person you seem to question the purpose of your entire existence. This is what Kenji has been feeling for all those years. He followed the instructions that was written on Miyaka's letter because somehow he was under Miyaka's spell. He was instructed to prick his ring finger with a lancet and drop a blood on Miyakas dagger as if making a blood compact. He wasn't expecting that a venomous animal would bit him after covering Miyaka's grave but he didn't know it was part of Miyaka's grand plan.

He met Miyaka in Kyoto one autumn afternoon and he immediately fall in love with her beauty. However, their was something mysterious about Miyaka. But like those people who tend to love without hesitation, Kenji decided to accept everything about his lover.

Miyaka was a witch and was a dropout from Mahoutokoro School of Witchcraft & Wizardry in the island of Migijima, Japan. Her descendants were from Kunlun in the mountains of China. She was an orphan and was adopted by a Japanese daimyo who happens to have a lot of hired samurais.

Kenji was always amazed how clever Miyaka was even until that very night that he found Miyaka daggered on her chest.

Unknown to Kenji was Miyaka's hidden secrets and plan. Because women was not regarded highly as man in Japan,Miyaka killed herself so as to give the task to Kenji.

It has been 83 years but Kenji doesn't look like his age. Kenji was also curious as to why his aging is delayed and over the years he has found some answers and this time he is certain as to what his task is all about.

He joined the Japanese army because he want to test his talent. On his quest to the Philippines he brought him the dagger that was used by Miyaka which he always put on his side pocket and it served as an amulet for him. But Kenji betrayed his own country, Japan. He sided with the American and Filipino soldiers but his contribution to the Japanese-American war was never recorded in history. He decided not to return to Japan and settled in the East Philippines for he was told on a vision to stay. The time he spent in the Philippines have been devoted in researching and studying peculiar diseases that has been endemic in the country. He also studied the movement of the stars. Before General Douglas Mc Arthur left on 1942 he worked as a doctor somewhere in the capital of Manila but people get to notice that he doesn't look like his age so he decided to transfer to a remote place in the East Philippines and built an infirmary in GreenValley which has now become the GreenValley Med. While he was building the infirmary in GreenValley he discovered a cliff and with it he was able to device a a plan. With his power and strength he was able to make a secret passage that leads to the cavern from the infirmary. He practiced for a few years as a doctor and told the locals he will be going back to his homeland but he never did. He become a hermit and lived in the cave which he transformed into a modern house after quite some time. He lived a decade of peace because he was able to live in cognito.

Kenji's return to his own country was a part of the mystery of Miyaka's plan. Even her death seems mysterious to Kenji. However, it was time that give him the answers.

One night when Kenji was asleep Miyaka appeared thru him in the form of a dream. Miyaka was wearing a white floral yukata and she was looking at herself in the mirror. But the reflection she saw was not herself but of another woman. The woman was talking to Miyaka and it was telling her to flee from Japan because the curse of Emperor Sutoku is real. Moreover the curse will not only fall on Japan itself but to its neighboring country.

Emperor Sutoku rose to the throne when he was a child. After his abdication he lived as a monk and later on after his death become an onryo - a vengeful spirit. And it has been predicted in the wizarding world that Emperor Sutoku will be reborn along with an evil descendant from Kunlun China and it will wreck havoc that will secretly wipe out the lives of innocent men and women in Asia. After seeing Miyaka on his dream Kenji slowly realized what his task is all about.

Kenji has been studying the movement of the moon and stars. And this time he has been busy in tracing the possible location of the upcoming Meteor Shower.