Chapter 5
—Exterior of King Oni Yamato Castle, Exterior Gate Number: 2976. —
Crash! Crash!
Crash! Crash!
It had been several months since my disorder problem had calmed down with Kurumi's personality.
She had helped me hold back occasionally when this problem was very mild.
Crash! Crash!
Crash! Crash!
Now they began to emerge with more force devouring my mind with the desire to kill my family or also the workers of the castle, I am becoming someone dangerous to all of them at this rate.
I can't allow that disorder to consume me for anything in the world.
Crash! Crash!
Crash! Crash!
At this moment I find myself hitting my head with a gigantic stone to calm myself down, even piercing a hole in the center with the blows given from my head.
Crash! Crash!
Crash! Crash!
I need someone to kill me to stop this disorder.
—Otouto, you should stop! —I heard Raikou-nee's worried voice.
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—Come on Otouto, I'll train you today because next year you'll be old enough to go train with Yoshi-sensei!
Raikou-nee spoke very animated to go to training, she had a point since at this moment I am 6 years old and next year I will reach the age to be trained which was at 7 years old as it was with my older brothers, when this age is reached we will leave the castle with the care and vigilance of Yoshi-sensei to be trained in any way until the night.
Although each of my brothers has different mastery in which we teach each other to be better prepared for the training given by Yoshi-sensei or any unexpected situation or danger, it was better to be safe than sorry said by all of us.
Well, getting to the limit where we can stay, since there is a limit that we cannot cross by orders given by Yoshi-sensei that was sent by our father in case we think of escaping from the castle to explore or do anything to have fun, the only good thing is that the limit also reaches a large waterfall where from time to time we all go together to bathe, picnicking as well as fishing and playing as a type of relaxation and competition.
Something enjoyable can be said.
—We're here, Otouto!
Seeing Raikou-nee who is a little away from me, her big purple hair reaching to her ankle, where her hair on the knee had a purple wooden cube tied to it, she was wearing a kind of latex suit, with a piece of cloth on her breast, with a heart-shaped badge, attached to his neck. A similar piece of cloth sits over his crotch, tied with a rope around his waist, and he possesses some armor in the form of gauntlets fitted to the elbows in black with gold. Their thick-heeled sandals were hooked with purple cords to the calves of armor the same color as the gauntlets. The katana sheath with a badger fur wrap reaching his thigh hung with the purple rope tied around his waist.
"I bet Tsumukari Muramasa that his favorite color is purple."
(You've already won the bet Dad, lol!)
I heard Kurumi's laughter in my mind.
—Get ready Otouto, let's start training.
Raikou-nee said, removing his animated tone from one of seriousness.
—Yes!
Sengo dives in with a quick vertical slash, looking to harness his strength. Raikou nimbly dodges with elusive movements. Raikou responds with a series of quick and precise attacks, attempting to throw Sengo off balance.
Sensing the pressure, Sengo channels more force into his sword, increasing the intensity of his blows. He performs a powerful diagonal attack, but Raikou responds with a deft parry and counterattacks with a series of quick slashes that defy perception.
Raikou momentarily backs away (confusing Sengo), assessing the situation. Sengo began to attack cautiously, Raikou observes Seng's attack patterns and detects an opening in his movements. With a burst of speed, Raikou closes the gap and makes a precise slash, leaving Sengo momentarily stunned.
Sengo, aware that he is being outclassed, decides to bet on brute force. He executes a powerful and determined attack, challenging Raikou to stop him. Raikou, however, uses his agility to dodge the blow and counterattack with a series of graceful and calculated moves. Slashing Sengo in several places, but the cuts weren't doing much damage, Raikou was holding back so as not to hurt his little brother too much.
But something happened that confused Raikou a lot.
Sengo began to attack more aggressively, letting himself be carried away by a beast's instinct.
Raikou understood that Sengo was not in his cavel so he decided to defend himself and looking for an alternative to stop his little brother without killing him like his older sister Oda Nobunaga did, he knew that she killed him every time he lost his sanity, he did not want to follow in his sister's footsteps.
On Sengo's part, he was fighting with himself not to lose himself with that feeling of killing his sister.
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"That shitty emotion again, I already said I don't want to kill my family!"
(Dad, this time that emotion is getting worse and worse!)
"Shit, shit, shit, Raikou-nee won't try to kill me!"
Crash! Crash!
The clash of katanas could be heard, Raikou focused on defending herself and evading so as not to get hurt by Sengo's aggressive attacks.
Crash! Crash!
"At this rate it will be a pity."
(Dad, I think you need to quickly control your body and kill yourself with the katana, Aunt Raikou may die today if you keep getting out of control!)
Seng's body began to move like a robot, the katana in his hand had raised it; It looked like he wanted to slit his throat, but unfortunately the katana in his hand came loose preventing his suicide.
Sengo, thinking fast as he was near a giant stone, began to use his head as a hammer, breaking each time in the center of the stone where the eerie sound of the skull bone breaking again and again could be heard, where Raikou felt a little disliked by that sound.
—Otouto, you should stop! —Raikou's worried voice was heard as he approached to stop Sengo.
Without warning, his katana was snatched from his right hand. She quickly saw Sengo who had his katana, he had raised the sword and feared for her life thinking that Sengo was going to kill her when he was not conscious himself.
Squish!
There was the sound of blood splattering, soiling Raikou's face with horror as he saw Seng's dead body falling to the floor with blood gushing around him on the floor.
—Really, there's no other way?
Raikou said, worried and hurt, unable to help Sengo stop him from committing suicide.
He picked up the dead body and began his walk back to the castle.
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—Several days later. —
Ugh... Seriously what a pain...
I don't know how many days have passed, but I can still feel the blade slashing my neck.
At least everything went well, no one died.
(Except your dad.)
Nothing important, really.
I got out of bed and saw the bandage on my neck covering the cut for sure, although it seems a strange thing, I don't have any scars every time I commit suicide or Nobunaga killed me.
It was a perfect regeneration with no scars, seriously Gaia doesn't allow me to die.
Changing my clothes and then leaving my room, I went to the kitchen to get some food and make up for the lost blood.
Arriving at the kitchen I asked a chef to cook with the [Unicorn Horn], as it has purifying and healing properties, a way to recover lost blood all the way to my room.
As the minutes passed and I finished eating, I now went to my forge.
I plan to waste my time improving my skills.
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Several months had passed and I was already 7 years old.
Later I would go with Yoshi-sensei, right now I'm in my forge before the sun rises.
I am accompanied in this mandatory training regimen.
Since we were born on the same day, we would receive at the same time the training given by Yoshi-sensei, right now Tomoe is still sleeping in his room, there is 1 hour left before the sun rises.
I wasn't sleepy, so that's why I'm forging shuriken for Katō.
She seriously wastes the shiruken by throwing them far away from our father's territory.
—Finished, I hope she doesn't waste this 50 shuriken I made for her all night in the wee hours of the morning. —He sighed. —What a hassle not to be sleepy, I'm going to the waterfall to keep wasting time.
The only good thing is that my forge is a little away from the castle so as not to disturb the sleep of the screeching sounds of the hammer hitting the steel.
Walking through the dark forest, though being born into this race called oni, has its privilege; I can clearly see the forest as if it were daytime, there are also other upgrades such as strength, stamina, stamina, agility, speed, durability and more, where it surpasses a mere human.
When I was a kid, I couldn't easily grab a hammer that was too heavy for me to forge steel.
Now with this new body, I can forge with ease without wobbling from the heavy weight of the hammer.
Rhine!
Listening to the sound of the water falling down the waterfall where I approached and then undressing and starting to bathe.
Sigh. —Haaah... What an incredible feeling of pleasure from the cool water wetting your body.
I began to relax in the river pond and stretch my arms on the rocky ground where I rested my body.
—As always, the full moon is beautiful.
Also seeing the twinkling of the stars in the sky accompanying the beautiful brilliance emitted by the moon dazzling this place.
—I think I can fall asleep peacefully right now.
I said muttering as my body relaxed more and more.
Little by little, my body relaxed, and I felt sleepy as well.
Crack!
The sound of a branch breaking disturbed my relaxation and about to fall asleep.
Quickly lifting and grabbing my clothes to get dressed as fast as I could and then looking at the place where the sound of the branch breaking came from.
Looking into the depths of the forest that continued into the other territory that we are forbidden to enter by our father's orders, I managed to look at a girl my age.
She was wearing a reddish kimono with a yellow sash, has white hair pulled back in a ponytail, reddish-pink eyes, and hair accessories with bell ribbons and a red oni mask on the side of her head.
Her oni horns are different from mine in size and color, hers are pink and white dyed and a little smaller where her left horn has a black cloth wrapped in it.
(N/A: The oni horns that Muramasa has as well as the other Servants that have been seen and born in this oni family, all of them have the oni horn of Tomoe Gozen in his ascension number 3, so you get an idea of that, and also in that territory lives another race of oni with the difference of the horns. And yes, it's Nakiri Ayame, her character design of course.)
—So that's the reason, there's another race of Oni living in the other part of the forest.
We continued our gaze for a few seconds until she started to leave.
—The sun is starting to rise.
I went back to the castle and once I got there, I started to go back to the forest...
The training was in another location in this immense forest where I ended up fighting with Tomoe an amphibious monster the size of a horse, with the jaws of a boar and an elephant's tail.
He used his fangs and horns to attack us, Tomoe being a little far away raised his bow to shoot it with his arrows where the monster escaped with great agility.
—This critter is formidable, has incredible strength and good agility.
Around us were some parts destroyed by the force of this monster.
—The Eale is an incredible monster that will serve in your training.
Yoshi-sensei spoke with enviable calmness.
—I'm seeing him, and his skin is also very strong, I just scratched him a few times with this katana.
If Tomoe were to hit him with a crush, he surely wouldn't do much damage to this monster's skin.
—Then you have to make an effort! —Tomoe exclaimed, leaping into the air.
A sudden fire rose up on the arrow that ended up descending with strength and speed.
Bam!
The flame arrow hit the Eale's head where a quantity of dust kicked up covering the monster.
OOOOAAAAAAAHHH!
The Eale attacked us with unwavering fury.
—Congratulations, Tomoe.
I said sarcastically, pointing to the monster that was coming running towards us.
—Change of strategy, put down the bow and let's attack with the katana.
—Yes!
—We hit his legs; I hope he gets off balance in his career.
We advanced on different sides and with the katana we hit with brute force on the legs where two things happened.
The monster lost its balance, falling and rolling several meters away, where its body was staring at the sky without the possibility of turning due to the guilt of the horns.
The katana broke.
Tomoe said sadly.
That was the other thing, the katana broke because of the durability of the Eale's skin.
I'm not surprised to be honest; katana are built with ordinary steel; So, its durability is also low compared to other weapons forged with a more robust material.
—The training is still on; they haven't killed the Eale.
Yoshi-sensei said, warning us.
—Yes, yes. Come on, Tomoe.
Tomoe just nodded and we approached the monster trying to turn to miss.
—Sengo-nii... How did we kill him?
I put my hand to my chin as I thought of some answer.
—I have in my possession the broken orichalcum spears, which I had forged for Senshi and Sensō.
—I thought you burned it in the furnace of your fire.
—I had really thought about it... but I can no longer repent on the guilt of Senshi and Sensō's death.
Tomoe looked in wonder at her brother who began to have a change, his gloomy and desolate aura beginning to turn to a little bright and friendly.
—Don't look at me like that. Sengo looked away, embarrassed that Tomoe would see the change she began to make.
Sengo took out the tip of the orichalcum spear where he brought it to the head of the monster that could not turn.
Crack!
The monster's head was pierced by the spear, where blood began to come out and stain Sengo's clothes a bit.
—Congratulations, now seeing what you are capable of working as a team, now you continue your individual training.
Yoshi-sensei said that he had come down from the giant tree.
Sigh. —This will be all day...
—That's for sure, Sengo-nii.
And he continued our training that ended at night. Seriously, the training was tired and sore.
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What did you think of the chapter?
When it comes to describing someone's outfit it's a pain in the ass, you have to go to the character's wiki to copy and paste, and modify a bit when it comes to the first person view of Muramasa.
Thinking she was wearing something like a poncho, I decided to look up Raikou's wiki of her outfit so I wouldn't be struggling.
Last but not least, it doesn't happen to me, I used to easily reach 3k words and now I barely pass 2600 words, I'm devastated by myself.
Well I'll say goodbye, chao, chao.