Chapter 41

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Ei woke up in a sitting position, as she could hear the rain hitting against the wooden tiles of the rooftop.

Ei suspected it was still early in the morning, as she saw Aether sleeping in a fetal position in the corner with Paimon beside him. Ei picked up the blanket and tuck it over them.

She cares for the travelers like a mother, the last time she felt like this was the time when Kuni Kuzushi was still around.

Ei never treated Kuni like a weapon or a prototype, she saw him as a son to protect. To protect him from chaos reality has to show him.

\\Flashback\\

"Mother..."

"Yes, dear?"

"When can I be allowed to see the outside world?"

"..."
"I'm sorry, my dear but... the outside world is a dangerous place for you. You can't go"

"How so?"

"It's good for you to not know..."
"I want to keep you in my care... in my eternity... eternally with me"

"I understand what you said, mother..."

\\end of flashback\\

Handing her duties as Shogun to her puppet was a mistake she can't wash off, as it stained her soul full of guilt and regret.

Ei often wonders where Kuni is, as the Shogun let him wander off the outside world without informing her.

The travelers were a great help towards the archons and their nations. Ei left the Sangonomiya camp without waking up the traveler, as she doesn't want him getting involved on any problems anymore.

Ei walked around the storm, on search for the sword hilt.

Ei slightly coughed and wiped her face being soaked by the rain. She saw the sword hilt with electro energy flowing around it.

 She saw the sword hilt with electro energy flowing around it

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Ei activated it with an electrograna on her side. A geo samurai appeared and pointed the tip of the blade infront of Ei.

The geo samurai summoned geo spears that pointed towards Ei, as she dodged the elemental skill.

The geo spears sent waves of damage, as Ei pulled out the samurai's vision and used it as extra buff or support to deal damage within every seconds.

When Ei finished fighting the geo samurai, it was strange how she didn't received any memories of previews from the samurai.

Ei buried the vision on the ground, as her vision became blurry and her surroundings turning dark.

Ei was not in a preview of the geo samurai just like Genkei's.

She was in a preview of a hopeless samurai with a blade in hand while he panted for air.

"KENTA! STOP THIS! Can't you see this is wrong?!" the samurai yelled at Kenta(geo samurai) "I am doing this for the sake of Enkonomiya! Our homeland, Nozomi(electro samurai)!" Kenta shouted and charged at him.

Nozomi crossed his arms to block his attack "I don't want to hurt you... I don't want to hurt you..." Nozomi greeted his teeth, as he fumbled and spat out blood.

Kenta's eyes were blurred by his tears, as he doesn't want to end his friend's life by his own hands.

"Is it because of that outcast named Hikaru? I want to stop bu-but the... curse Aku is binding me in is taking over me" Kenta's hand trembled and was frozen in place, as tried to fight back with the curse.

Out of rage, Kenta threw the katana from his hand and gripped his face "Go! Escape! Before the curse consumes me fully!" tears flowed out his eyes, as Kenta collapsed on his knees.

Nozomi quickly stood up and ran away from Kenta 'I will save Kenta! Hikaru! Daiki! and bring back Aku!' Nozomi thought

The preview of Nozomi became blurry and Ei came back to the real world.

Ei slowly puts the pieces of the puzzle together, as it makes sense now "These samurais are not from Inazuma but in Enkonomiya? Except for Hikaru... then how did the vision hunt decree got their hands of unalive visions that are about 2,000 years old?" Ei asked herself while staring at the sword hilt.

Ei's next destination was towards Fort Mumei. While walking her way there, she tried to further understand the samurais' chronicles.

"Nozomi is the electro samurai from near the edge of Serpent's head in a beach and Hiraku is the cryo samurai that saved me hours ago... maybe when Hiraku was young after he received his vision and ran away from getting executed, he bumped into Nozomi and they became friends until years..." Ei theorized

"And Aku may had been possessed by something or someone..." Ei rubbed her chin with her fingers "Maybe Kawatare didn't escorted them to the afterlife because of their misery and suffering they can't let go of and needs someone to bless for their souls..." Ei muttered, as she was just meters away from Fort mumei.

The sword hilt was surrounded by the ocean water, as Ei summoned an electrograna to be able to touch the sword hilt.

It then summoned a dark entity with a large katana in both hands, Ei summoned her naginata.

The dark entity charged towards Ei. Ei almost got herself cut by the sudden attack.

She then tripped on her legs, as she was pushed away by an impactful attack from the entity.

Ei hit her back against a broken cement pillar making her wince in pain.

The entity then attack her with its consecutive attacks that gives rapid strikes from his two blades.

This made Ei be flung backwards making her hit the wet cement.

Ei can't move her body, as she tried to reached out for her naginata. It was like she was drinking the same medicine how she gave it to Aether.

The entity spared no seconds for Ei to stand up, as it kicked her stomach area by using its katana.

Ocean water got inside of Ei's mouth, as she tried couching the saltiness out of her throat.

Ei slowly stood up and summoned her naginata and tried slashing through the entity, as she was forcing her puppet body to fight back against the entity.

'This must be Aku...' Ei thought, she then failed to dodge the entity's attack making her fell to unconsciousness.









To be continued...

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