Kagura had left the house and was walking the old and safe road towards the inn. She was still thinking about the idea of a holiday with Leo. She had wanted to visit the north because of the snow and northern lights. She had been there before but didn't have time to enjoy it, she had wanted to go back and genuinely enjoy it.
The sky was getting dark, a storm was coming. Kagura got a bad idea of the clouds but decided to worry about it later. She had a weird feeling in her spine that she couldn't describe or had not felt in over 28 years.
The feeling of danger, a coming battle of blood, tears and death. She worried a little, her instincts had never failed her and she had become to trust them. Even if they had not said anything in years, they had no need to lie to her.
She hurried to the inn to see if anything was happening there. She ran, the falling leaves were following her, because of the speed that she was running. The guard could only step back and fall when she approached.
She opened the door to the inn and saw him. It was Tony with his bodyguards and servants behind him. She had her lowered because she right now couldn't think rationally because her instincts were screaming that something was going to happen.
She didn't know what was going to happen, that was the problem.
"What is the Baron's son, Sir Tony doing here?"
He smirked before answering.
"Nothing much, just wanted to ask, if you had changed your mind about my offer?"
"Sorry, but I've not.
Kagura was starting to doubt her instincts, maybe they had gotten rusty over the years and just warned her about the storm.
"Well, that's bad to hear. Because it would be very helpful to be my wife."
Kagura didn't like the tone that Tony was speaking with.
"What could you possibly mean?"
"Well, nobles have a lot of resources, to find missing people for an example."
Tony was smiling, but Kagura was not. She raised her head, the look on her face made Tony almost piss his pants. Her yellow eyes, which normally were calm and warm were now the complete opposite.
They were red, pitch red. They were emitting so much bloodlust and anger that he had never seen before. Even his guards, who were war veterans, could not stand straight when such a look was given to them.
Kagura stepped outside and saw smoke rise from the forest. Her pupils shrink and she dashed towards her home. She almost broke the sound barrier and woke everyone in the village up. She wasn't like anything before, right now she was acting like a worried animal for her kin.
The forest was like it had always been but something still felt wrong for her. She soon saw her house and it looked completely normal. But she knew, she knew that something wasn't right. There wasn't any fire.
Someone had started a fire but calmed it down quickly. She sneaked closer and opened the door and inside she saw her son, on his knees on the ground. He was being held down by two guys and behind them was a woman and three more guys.
Yellow color returned to her eyes when she was Leo, he only said one word.
"Run."
Then he disappeared. He turned to shining ash and went away with the wind.
"How does it feel Kagura? To get someone important taken away from you?
Kagura wasn't listening, she was only thinking about what had happened. Leo, her lovely and cute son who she just got back from depression, and now he was gone. She didn't know these people.
She raised her head and saw the people smirking at her, like they had just achieved something amazing. And thirty years ago they would have, but now it was their biggest mistake. They had just taken something away from a mother.
If before Kagura was acting like a scared mother worrying about her child, then now. She was a beast. A lonely wolf and the most dangerous one. She was a wolf, who had nothing to lose...
Kagura appeared to the person closest to her and stabbed her hand though his neck. She took hold of his vocal chords and ripped them out while he fell to the ground.
These people had no idea how she had done it. She had done it with something that not many people could. It was aura, aura was a substitute for mana. Some who could use magic like electricity didn't use it but for swordsmen it was important.
With aura, you could reinforce something that use used for fighting like a sword or a spear. Some used mana to coat their weapons and it worked but some magic were not suitable for that and that's why they used aura.
However they mostly could use it for only one object. But Kagura had so much experience with fighting that she could use it for whatever she was touching. Was it her hand, foot or a nail. Everything could be coated with aura.
These people actually had no idea who Kagura was. The woman was a brother of a dead soldier who had died on a battlefield and just knew that a mercenary named Kagura was fighting for the opponents and possibly the one who killed him.
So when she was the request she headed towards the location expecting to find Kagura but found a man that was so exhausted, he didn't offer a challenge so they waited for the evening so that Kagura arrived.
She arrived sooner that they expected and panicked and gave him the pill. Nothing really went wrong and didn't expect the woman to do something. She was just a pale and skinny woman.
But when she raised her head, she saw them. Those dark almost black eyes and the killing intent that she gave made her stiffen up. So when she killed Eric with piercing his throat with her bare hands, she fell onto the ground and started tearing up.
They had made something terrible. They had touched something they should never have touched. They had touched son of a mother and sent him away. They had awakened a demon; this is when she remembered something.
There was a legend almost 30 years ago, it was about a woman. She was calm and everyone felt safe around her. However, in a battlefield she was the last one that they wanted to be around with. Because with a good enough reason her eyes changed.
She was called Kagura the sleeping demon.