If a day passed after we left for London, the train journey takes quite a while, but it's faster than taking a carriage, which is the main means of transport at that time when I reincarnated as an undertaker in another world.
Sakegi: -bones of the craft: bone fists! – looking at the hands with spiritual energy circles formed around them in the way Bartô did before.
Howl: -Very well, you are already able to control your bone craft much better. – with crossed wing feathers. -At least for that the meeting with Bartô served.
Taking advantage of the fact that the train is at a standstill, they are training in the back of the station, away from the prying eyes of passersby or women who have noticed how rich Sakegi is.
Sakegi: -I'm going to show that guy why he inherited Vladis' mantle. – punching the air as if he were seeing Bartô there. – Padfoot cocky.
Howl: -he's not even listed in the order and already wants to make trouble... - coming off Sakegi's shoulder where he liked to stay to analyze the spiritual energy situation. –and with another agent.
Sakegi: -Come here because we have to go to London to enlist? Couldn't someone in the city do that, right? – eating a rice ball that I finally managed to make in that world. – sitting on the edge of the station floor.
Howl: -Go for me, I wouldn't want to receive a supervisor, they are more fearful. – trembling when remembering something. -cruuuu! – drinking tea.
Sakegi: -You are very weird you know? -picking the last rice ball. –"the last melon" –after speaking that expression, he feels a shiver in his body, followed by intense heat and a tingling in his left hand, which finally freezes his spine.
Howl: -Sakegi? – noticing her tense body. –Sakegi! – Swinging the branch he carries around Sakegi. –anti-malignant!
Sakegi: -oooo! – getting back to normal. -what was this? I felt as if my soul had left my body. - drooling a green goo.
Howl: -That's not... - watching him have an adverse reaction.
Sakegi: -What is it? – wiping the juice that ran from the corner of her mouth.
Howl: -It's called agent instinct, some soul must have come into contact with you... - thoughtful when realizing that Sakegi could sense souls even without a basis for it.
Sakegi: -just like that? – still feeling bad with old vomit and a little fatigue.
Howl: -what did it feel like to be touched? – approaching Sakegi with a worried look.
Sakegi: -touched is a bit of a strong word but I felt distress, fear, anguish. – stopping to think a little.
Howl: -Signal that the soul is asking for help. – hitting the stick he carries on his head twice.
Sakgi: -and I also felt a tingling in my left hand.
Howl: -aaar, that means we have an entity close by. – writing runes on the ground.
Sakegi: -You know just like that? – scratching his left hand. – just to hear what it is?
Howl: -a signs that only agents can feel, feelings reveal what the soul is asking for, in this case it's help, tingling in the left hand means entities.
Sakegi: -I don't remember seeing this in the books... - without clearly understanding that situation.
Howl: -There are 3 categories of entities: lost souls, evil spirits and demons. – creating designs in the air. –each event has its subtypes and levels, the most dangerous being the demons, called oni, who assume human form, they are the worst… – he remembers something. –and very powerful. -Getting visibly shaken when talking about this type.
Sakegi: -I mean that a normal entity, like a soul called me to do something against another entity that could be an evil spirit or... - swallowing hard. -a demon?
Sakegi: -Demons...- Goosebumps with what I just realized.
Howl: -whatever it is should be close by. – looking around. -I will use the runes to track the soul that passed by you.
Sakegi: -And is there a way to do this? – stunned by so much new information at once, since he had spent the last few days reading everything about his role and agent, he didn't even see the edge of what really exists, he realized.
Howl: -Stand back. – activating the runes he wrote in the sand. –wind seal: revealing pillars!
Four pillars of earth appear on the ground and join together like a pointer, and point to a village that was far from the station, near a hill north of where they were, at that same moment from inside Sakegi a butterfly comes out in color. blue, measuring about 10 cm, its wings were large and emitted light when beat.
Sakegi: -What is this? - looking at the butterfly that hovered in front of him.
Howl: -a spiritual butterfly. – amazed by that scene to come, it was something extremely unusual even for him, who had already seen a lot in his travels with Eitor.
The butterfly begins to fly towards the village that had already been pointed out by Howl's runes.
Sakegi: -We're not going to follow this thing. - looking at the macabre place that was ahead.
Howl: -Spiritual butterflies are kind souls who help other souls in this world to find light. – flying towards the butterfly. -we have to go.
Sakegi: -I was hoping not to say that...aaa - putting the top hat on his head and holding tight to the cane he's carrying with him. -so let's go. – running towards Howl and that spiritual butterfly.
The path towards the village is surrounded by tall, dry trees as if something had taken their lives, the atmosphere was terrifying, it felt like a Halloween setting, thought Sakegi, the closer they got, the more the odor of death became stronger. and suffocating, the sun was gone and the moon was shining in the sky, but soon it would disappear amidst a dense fog that was forming, until they reached the village that seemed abandoned, but only seemed.
Sakegi: -What happened here? – Seeing piles of bodies lying around, torn apart, it was a real carnage in the open.
Howl: -It was a massacre... - seeing torches lit as if trying to expel an entity. -Sakegi, be careful, we're dealing with a being higher than 2... - feeling his chest tighten.
Sakegi: -I know I already asked that but do you know that just by looking? – trying not to vomit as the inedible odor penetrates his nose deeply.
Howl: -The torches...they can drive out levels 1 and 2, but this one managed to kill so many people. – creating runes in the air. –let's send those poor souls to the afterlife.
Sakegi: -Okay, bones of the trade: bone elevation! – creating runes in the form of bones.
Several souls begin to appear through the village, their features were a sadness to be pitied, Sakegi is shaken by the sadness stamped on the face of those poor souls.
-ooooo! – a scream is heard farther into the village.
Sakegi: -Is anyone still alive? – looking at Howl.
Several spiritual butterflies appear from the direction where the cry of despair heard a little while ago, seemed to be trying to warn about something.
Howl: -The entity is still around. – getting a serious look. – we have to eliminate her.
Sakegi: -oh dog life... - holding his canes over his left shoulder.
Sakegi and Howl go to the place where the scream was heard being guided by the butterflies that were there and find a body with only the top half, guts and blood coming out of it still fresh.
Howl: -We arrived late, he killed this woman with a clean cut. – analyzing the hypotheses through their experiences.
Sakegi: -What would do that? – putting his hand over his mouth.
Howl: -a "people eater." – looking at more half-empty bodies scattered on the floor.
Sakegi: -But what is this? – scared by that name.
Howl: - Legend has it that they are frightened souls who will suffer some mutilation while they were in this world and could not have peace in the other, and returned to this world in order to get revenge.
Sakegi: -I'm even afraid to ask the level of it there. – closing the dead woman's eyes.
Howl: -they aren't high level, they only get to level 3. -putting the souls to rest. -but they walk in a bunch.
Sakegi: -Perfect, if one would be complicated, then it's just the filet. – placing both hands on his head.
Sakegi until that moment had not faced anything that could cost his new life, since he started this new journey, he had faced a witch and an agent but the danger was now real, what he was being trained to annihilate was around him and he did not knew where.
Sakegi: -the fog is getting thicker - a cold sweat running down my spine.
Howl: -Stay close, they can control fog due to the cold of the soul - looking at where Sakegi was but there's no one there. -not this one. – with eyes shining a yellowish green in the fog.
Sakegi: -Howl? Lol, let your stupid owl playfully. – Uncomfortable with that situation. -Howl?...I'm lost. – looking around and seeing only fog.
At that moment something stalks them both, and they start walking, making the noise of many legs touching the ground, the sound of flesh being ripped and the air getting heavy.
Howl: -Sakegi, if you hear me, run back and hide! I'll find a way to call a more experienced agent! – shouting loudly but Sakegi doesn't hear anything due to the feeling of earth that took over the place.
Sakegi: -I have to get off the street... - heading towards where I knew there was a shack. -Oh damn, Howl, why did you have to disappear right now!
When I opened it, the part had several bodies without jaws, more bodies without faces on the stairs, so he decides to go up to the attic of the hut where the cattle's hay is. -I have to hide, my scent must attract them. – taking the guts of bodies and ironing clothes in order to deceive the scent of the creatures.
Sakegi: -there's something coming... -hearing the creak of the stair boards...
A figure appears in the light of a torch burning in the hay beside it.
Sakegi: -Don't come, don't come. – shaking all over. -ooooo! - yells when he sees the face of it.
-ooooo! – screaming when touching something.
Sakegi: -Want to scare me kid! – with the heart in time to come out of the mouth.
-me? You were the one who screamed first... - shaking with nervousness.
Sakegi: -Only kid, you come out of nowhere, I thought it was one of those things. – fatigued. -shit brat.
-I don't call myself that! - yelling.
The person who emerged has shoulder-length black hair, brown eyes and brown skin, her arms were scarred, she wasn't wearing shoes or underwear only a very large blouse covered her entire body.
-You're not from around here, are you? – finding strange Sakegi's clothes.
Sakegi: -No, I came here to help. – feeling vigorous.
-then why is it hiding here, shouldn't it be after the people eaters? – even more strange.
Sakegi: -eee... -awkwardly. -I'm still learning.
-I can't believe the butterfly I sent found an idiot to help. - slapping his forehead in disappointment.
Sakegi: -huh? Did you that butterfly call me? – intrigued by what he heard.
-Yes it was, do you think I'm a freak, because of that? – looking at Sakegi.
Sakegi: -No...I wish I had that. - with envy. – would be of great help at this point.
-... - Not believing what he said.
Sakegi was surprised that the one in front of him spoke because Howl had told him that ordinary humans couldn't see spirits like those boobs or talk to them, but this one could see them and communicate with them.
-I need to find someone who really knows what he's doing and not a useless person. - speaking with disgust.
Sakegi: -That's what you have for today. – Rebutting the offenses received. –and you will help me with this.
-me? I'll get out. – one of the butterflies crosses the wall. – things went to the other side behind an owl? But what is an owl doing here? – the butterfly seems to talk. -She makes a lot of noise and is attracting them? - smile. -better impossible.
Sakegi: -Howl.... - shook his head in displeasure.
-It's my chance to get out of here and if I'm smart, which isn't, I should leave too. – looking down through a window.
Sakegi: -Hmm. - thoughtful. -Wait, where did the people eaters go? – holding the shoulder of the one who talks to butterflies.
-went to the church side, why would you know? – noticing his face. -don't tell me you want to go there...
Sakegi: -I have to help Howl...that annoying owl. – cleaning the blood from the clothes.
-You were just trembling with fear. - looking at the boy who was different from before.
Sakegi: -Yeah...I'm not proud of it, but it's in these moments that we have to show that we're not cowards. – taking courage.
-you're going to die, like the rest of the people in this shitty village. – spitting on the floor.
Sakegi: -You're talking about your own people...
-they weren't my people, nor do I have any family, I'm an orphan, I was left here to die, they mistreated me just because I could talk to spirits, and now they're all dead and I live thanks to that. – running his hand over the scars. -You don't know the hell I went through here.
Sakegi: -this boy...
-Very well, if you want to die, go on faith, I'll give it a go.
Sakegi: -You go with me. – taking his arm.
-go dreamed. - Trying to take his arm away.
Sakegi: -You know the city and can communicate with these butterflies is our only chance to survive and kill those things, there's already a lot of blood spilled.
-and what makes you think that? – Bleaching.
Sakegi: -If you really wanted to run away, you would have already done that...you haven't left yet because there's someone here you want to know if you're alive or not.
-you do not know anything. – getting serious.
Sakegi: -I'm your best chance here.
-... - Looking at him. -Okay, I want to find a lady who fed me, we were together but I ended up separating from her.
Sakegi: -I knew it wasn't a dick. – Looking at the boy. -I'm Sakegi Tomoya Vladis, undertaker.
- Undertaker... kkkkkkkkkkkk – laughing out loud. -What the fuck could an undertaker do?
Sakegi: - speak in your low scrotum of shit, go call them here. - screaming loudly.
A loud bang shakes the hut and a large body rises towards the two, it was the white-skinned entity, with 4 legs and 4 arms, each arm wielded a sickle, its face was hideous, it had a mouth full of teeth and a tongue huge, it was full of bloodstains, but they weren't his.
Sakegi: -See what I said! -yelling.
-You were the one who called, you idiot! – screaming louder.
Eater: -aaaaa! - growling loudly as he passed through the doorway and thrusting his scythe towards the boy.
-...!- Feeling that his time had come to realize that the creature was aiming for him.
Sakegi: -a man-eater... - taking a deep breath. –bones of the trade: skull smash!
Sakegi uses the same blow he used against Bartô and manages to prevent the entity from hitting the boy, throwing him out of the hut, but not before being hit by the scythes that hit his body at various points.
Sakegi: -Damn... - Feeling the ground give way. -not this one!
The shack can't withstand the impact of the blows and starts to fall apart taking everyone together.
-ooooo! – falling towards the fire that spreads through the hay.
Sakegi: -bones of the craft: bone wave! – creating a wave of bones below them so they could be carried out of the wreckage and escape the fire.
-That was disgusting. – coming out of the bones.
Sakegi: - spoke the boy who speaks to souls. – dusting off her face.
-Look here you... - Heard someone's screams. –Mama?
He runs away when he hears the cry for help coming from near the church, the butterflies appear along the way.
Sakegi: -Wait there boy! – with a pain in the leg bothering him. -aaaa, I hope I never have to create a plague like that. – a little awkward starts to run after him.
Sakegi goes in the direction the boy took, but the fog gets thicker and the odor stronger.
Sakegi: -Such a stink. - Until he sees the reason for the stink. -What the hell.
In front of the church, the boy was standing in front of a pile of broken bodies, but that wasn't all.
-San... - a woman having her organs ripped out by one of the entities and throwing away the rest.
-mama... - looking at the woman who took care of him being discarded as a carcass on top of the pile of corpses.
At that moment the people eater who devoured the woman approaches the boy who was in shock to see that woman who took care of him dead in pieces.
Sakegi: -boy, get out of there! – realizing that he wasn't listening to anything. –damn, bones of the trade: "this has to work" spear of bones!
He fires three bone-tipped spears from his hand at the creature he's hit and starts spewing mist from his mouth as a shield.
Sakegi: -boy, are you alright? – approaching him.
-She's dead... and I wasn't here to help her... - crying. -I should be dead...
Sakegi: -Don't talk nonsense...her death won't be in vain, I promised I will destroy these things once and for all.
-but you're really bad at it. – with a hopeless look.
Sakegi: -It kicks dead dog. – seeing that the entity of the hut has returned. -Stay behind me. –seeing another entity rise after being hit by the spears. -oh beauty...
The two entities begin to surround Sakegi and the boy preparing to attack.
Sakegi: -Howl, you bastard, wherever you are, come help me. – pointing his cane at one of the people eaters. –bones of the craft! – the entity starts to go towards them with the scythes spinning in the air. – bone barrier!
He manages to create a bone barrier that pierces the approaching entity, it makes a loud noise of pain and stops moving right away.
-look you got it, you killed one. – Impressed. -Looks like it's good for something.
Sakegi: -looks like? – finding something strange in the creature's body.
get down! – pulling Sakegi's tie so he can dodge.
The other entity attacks them by jumping over the barrier.
Howl: -biting wind - creating wind blades from its crooked branch.
The entity is hit and jumps out of the barrier in order to avoid a confrontation under those conditions.
Sakegi: -At last you showed up, your useless owl. - smiling. -Where have you been all this time?
Howl: -after we parted, I managed to escape one of them with the help of that lady, she protected me, but unfortunately she was caught being torn apart when trying to attract the entity, and I couldn't do anything... - a little tearful.
-Mama... even at these times you think of others... - with tears running down her face.
Sakegi: -we've got to put an end to this, I'm done with...-realizing that the entity that had been caught in the barrier is no longer there. -That's not it, it's gone.
Howl: -but they are entity, they can ignore wounds like that. – Looking at the barrier losing its effect and disappearing back to the ground. – there's something wrong here.
A Eater tries to attack Sakegi from above again using the fog to get closer.
-over! – a butterfly tells its master.
Sakegi: -Bones of the Craft: Skull of Bones! – when attacking the creature, it sees the marks of blows it had given to different entities that night. -Hmm?
The entity is hit and thrown against the church bell which makes a very loud noise.
Howl: -Are you guys alright? – going to Sakegi's shoulder.
-Now that I realize... is it a talking owl??? – looking at Howl on Sakegi's shoulder.
Sakegi: -Yeah...it has its perks. – looking around. -use your butterflies to find them
-OK! – closing his eyes. -This one doesn't... there's more coming... much more of them. – with the butterflies hovering in the air.
Sakegi: -It was just what was needed. – feeling that something bad was about to start.
10 entities gather around them after the bell sounds loudly attracting them.
Sakegi: -Howl...what is known about these creatures? – creating another barrier around them. -anything goes.
Howl: -Only that they walk in groups, that they use the fog to attack, and there is always one in the rear.
Sakegi: -Now I get it. – passing his tongue over his lips.
Howl: -Understand what?
Sakegi: -This thing doesn't run in packs, it splits.
Howl: -what?
Sakegi: -look, they all have marks of blows we gave, their winds and my bones.
Howl: -How did you not realize this before? – it had never been written about it or talked about, but the history said that all agents who were attacked by this type of entity never survived so it made sense to have nothing in the records.
Sakegi: -We have to know which one is the real one and eliminate it absolutely.
Howl: -what do you want to do? – a believer that Sakegi had a plan because he did the same face as Eitor when he planned something.
Sakegi: -boy...
-me? – behind Sakegi.
Sakegi: -order the butterflies and see which one will retreat instead of continuing, ok?
-Okay then... - Closing his eyes.
Sakegi: -Bones of the Craft: Bones Bloom!
Sakegi causes several sharp bones to stick out of the ground beneath each of the entities that go one by one taking damage or swerving towards them.
Sakegi: -Which one? – yells after attacking.
-Wait...there! – pointing to the side of the church.
The butterflies surrounded one of the creatures that retreated after the attack instead of advancing.
Sakegi: -That's the real one. – bringing together the greatest flow of energy you can. –Howl, prepare the wind circle.
Howl: -okay! – writing runes in the air.
Sakegi: -Very well you ugly beast of disgrace, bones of the trade: bone wave!
He creates a wave of bones that shoot out of the ground towards the entity he thinks is the only real one there.
The entity feeling threatened jumps up to dodge the blow and the others attack the 3 who were outnumbered.
Sakegi: -It fell right, now Howl!
Howl: -activate! – pointing towards the entity.
A circle of wind forms behind the creature that is sucked into it, smashing its body to pieces the instant it is hit by it, so all others disappear with the scream of pain if its true body, as well as the fog.
Sakegi: -whew, glad I was right. – relieved.
Howl: -and if you weren't you idiot, you put our lives on the line like that. – yelling at Sakegi.
-rs...kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk – laughing out loud. – you are hilarious...
Sakegi: -What are you laughing at...
-I... - starting to cry with joy. -Mama...everything turned out well.
Sakegi: -He's just a kid after all. – sighing.
Howl: -who talks to spiritual butterfly... - on Sakegi's shoulder.
Sakegi: -yeah... - sitting on the floor after tiredness hit.
After a few hours the day clears, the village was still burning, but it was already under control, Sakegi and the boy finished burying all the bodies in the village and Howl took all the souls to the beyond, along with the spiritual butterflies that he helped.
Howl: -and now, there's only him left here... - at the entrance to what used to be the village of Grerhelar.
Sakegi: -He should be fine, he's a strong boy. – starts walking.
-That's what I decided. – hitting his face. -I'll go with you. - smiling.
Sakegi: -is what? – with the face of someone who doesn't believe what was said.
-I'm going with you. – showing white teeth. – I will be a great apprentice.
Sakegi: -More not even if you're born again, brat.
-You just said I was strong, and I know how to talk to spirits something you don't.
Sakegi: -Oh, I lost in the argument... - unhappy about having to say that.
-besides you're really bad. – pointing his finger at them. -you will need someone to help you.
Sakegi: -who was it that defeated the man-eater em, em, em? – Catching the boy by the middle of the blouse. -Huh?
As I did this, Sakegi felt a bulge in the middle of his chest, and the shirt had come up and showed the underside.
Sakegi: -Are you a girl? – dropping her on the floor after being ashamed of what she saw.
-I never said I was a boy. -Ashamed. -besides who gave you the right to look at me, you pervert, I'm already 16!
Sakegi: what?! You don't even have the size of a person! – without crediting what he saw. -brat!
-My name is Alessandy, but you can call me Sandy. – pouting.
Howl: -That explains a lot. -listening to the whistle. -Let's go before the train leaves without us.
Sandy: -hey carry me on your back.
Sakegi: -No way, you're not wearing anything down there.
Sandy: -See, pervert just thinks about it.
Sakegi: -It's none of that yours...arrr
Howl: -Come on you two there.
Sakegi: - about your brat soon.
Sandy: -but don't you dare touch me. – on Sakegi's back. -upa little horse.
Sakegi: -aaaar, I deserve it...
The three manage to arrive in time to catch the train, Sandy looks at her old village and thinks about everything that happened, takes a deep breath and looks at Sakegi with happiness on her face, because he was the second person who accepted her the way she was.
After a few hours...
-The train... - Listening to the whistle of the train arriving at the station. – I feel a sweet smell – someone looks out the window of his mansion. -It must be my luck changing.