Kanibora hurriedly went there. The place they had left the beast alone, there were only the ropes left, covered in purple and red blood.She inspected the area. The blood was indeed red. But because it was covered in blue mana, it looked purple.
" What a pain.", Kanibora sighed. The beast was much more stronger than she had assumed. So much strong that it even got itself out of the entangling ropes and got away.
" Now there's only one way left.", She thought. She needed to search in the book of ancient creatures and find a way to kill it. But it didn't seem like an actual creature to her.
" Now I have even more reasons to go back to nirvana.", She thought. It was the only place she could get some answers. She secured the whole mountain and left for Nirvana.
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When Danachi reached his village, the restless lives of the villagers soon urged him to go back to his own life. Knowing that the fishes might've came back already, he headed for Aya almost immediately.
On his way, a few villagers asked him about kani and he told them that he had gone back to his village.
Surprisingly reaching the Aya, Danachi didn't see anyone fishing in there.
" They probably don't know yet." He wanted to be sure of it himself first so he took a boat along with his net and went inside the river.He threw his net and waited for a while. When he pulled the net out, many fishes were caught in there.
" That should do it," he thought.
He got out of Aya and called the fishermen. Soon they gathered around and were surprised to know that they could go fishing again.
" I heard the man who had come from Faraka forbade us to go into Aya?", A fisherman asked Dan.
" He said to wait for a few days before we go in again. But now it's safe. ", Danachi replied.
" Great then.", Said the man.
That day, the villagers got more fishes than they had expected. It covered up their losses for the previous days. At the end of the day, they sold them and got their money. Danachi was heading for home in pleasure when he heard someone call him.
" Brother Dan!! You're back!!" , Kamiru came running.
" Oh, Kamiru. I've been back the whole day!! Where were you?",Danachi wondered because he hadn't seen him anywhere during the day time.
" I felt a little sleepy today. I was sleeping the whole day.", Kamiru's face was still looking very sleepy.
" It's okay to oversleep in a while Kamiru. But don't do it often, okay? You might become a lazy boy. You don't want that, do you?" , Danachi patted his head.
"Uh-huh", Kamiru turned his head from left to right. He asked," Brother Dan, did bother Kani not come back?"
" He went back to his home Kamiru", Danachi replied in a soft voice.
" THEN, WON'T HE COME TO PLAY WITH ME AGAIN?" , Kamiru started crying.
" Oh Kamiru, don't cry. You'll see him again.", Danachi tried to confront him.
" He lied to me! He won't come back!!", Kamiru didn't stop crying and ran away from there.
Danachi let out a sigh. Kamiru was like that forever. He would take a liking to everyone, no matter who it was. Kani was no different. Just after meeting a single time, Kani had become one of his favorite persons. Danachi was instantly reminded of Kanibora. He wondered what she was doing.
Dan went back to his house. He found that he had no water in his house. All the pitchers were empty. He had to go to the well to fetch water. But it was late and he didn't want to go but he went out anyway.
The well was located at the middle-corner of the village. Dan went there and threw the bucket inside the well. After pulling out the water he headed for home. But suddenly his pitcher felt heavy. He put it down to do see if he had accidentally pulled out a stone. After watching closely, he saw that the water was black. And now that it was close to his face, he sensed that there was an incredibly disgusting smell coming out of it . He put the pitcher upside down . A bunch of intestines came out of it. Dan was dumbfounded. There was never a time when the water of the well was found dirty ,let alone having intestines in it. He thought he might've seen wrong and went back to the well again. He pulled out some water and checked and the result was the same. The water was black along with the strong rotting smell and intestines. It was dark to check if there was something in the well. But Dan leaned forward to check it something really was in there but could see nothing.
At that moment, a strange thing happened. A few crows came flying and sat on the wall of the well. They called out loudly before all of them jumped into the well together. Dan found this a lot eerie. He went to the well again and tried to see something desperately. Almost then, he saw something glowing. It took him no longer to realize what he was seeing. He had seen them before. It was the pair of eyes that he saw in the mountain the previous day. Suddenly, a tail sprang out of the well and strangled Dan's neck. It was trying to pull him into the well.
Dan caught into the wooden pile beside and somehow prevented himself from falling into the well. He tried to break free but the tail was strengthening itself around his neck. It was getting hard to breath.
Dan grabbed the rope of the well and tried to make it thin by parting it. But it was hard. He couldn't focus on it. Somehow, he managed to do it. When the rope was thin enough he put a string of it around the tail and started to pull it. He used all his strength in it. Because the rope was very thin, it started to cut into the beast's tail. Soon, the tail was bleeding rapidly and finally the beast let him go.
Dan quickly ran away from the well.