After Tomo blessed the sword hilts for Ei while she was in an unconscious state, he was walking back to the sword hilts near Serpent's head.He then feels his head being heavy, as he was suddenly got out of the puppet's control.
Tomo was brung back inside the euthymia, as it was Ei's turn to control the puppet "Ei must be awake now..." Tomo suspected and he was right.
The katana stood tall, as the strings around Tomo disappeared.
Tomo reviewed his side of the story while Ei was unconscious.
//Replay//
(When Tomo was still controlling the puppet)Tomo walked to the beach below Higi village where him and Ei saw the blessed sword hilt.
Tomo hummed and observed it closely "Somebody must've blessed this already..." Tomo mumbled and pulled out a dead vision.
Footsteps can be heard behind Tomo, as he turned around and saw a shrine maiden. Her clothes were not from Narukami but from Watatsumi and she was wearing a dragonlike mask.
Tomo backed away "Raiden Shogun?... or should I say... fellow spirit" the maiden said with a giggle following after "oh... you noticed?" the maiden nodded "But don't worry, I'm not going to expel you from the body" the maiden said making Tomo relaxed.
"Are you the one that cleansed it?" Tomo asked with his index finger pointing at the sword hilt. The shrine maiden nodded in response "Yes. Although, I doubt that it's still not fully blessed" she said.
"My name is Tsumi, a shrine maiden from Watatsumi. I have been scouring around the island to cleanse these swordhilts, as villagers were disturbed by the strange energy coming from the sword hilts" Tsumi explained and Tomo nodded while humming.
"Tsumi... do you know the story behind these sword hilts?" Tomo asked and Tsumi nodded slowly, probably unsure of it.
"It's about 9 samurais from 2,000 years ago. Their story is also included at the history of Sangonomiya.
The Boukyaku clan were the ones that opened the portal that was sealed between Enkonomiya and Inazuma.
Though, nobody knows the reasoning behind it.
People from Enkonomiya were found and took the name Sangonomiya as their own.
Years after that, a young samurai named Sangonomiya Kohaku had himself curious of the origin of their family and seek to uncover the truths that led him to Enkonomiya.
His friends and brother, Sangonomiya Kojuro also known as Sangonomiya Kokomi's ancestor(Kokomi's great100x grandfather) noticed Kohaku's disappearance but they didn't worry much because they're well-aware that he likes adventures and exploring the lands.
After a week later when Kohaku came back from his journey, his personality became different from he usually acts.
His samurai friends grown concern about his unusual behavior and..."
"The rest of the story was unclear to me. All I know after that was a war broke out between Watatsumi and the rest of Inazuma because of the people of Watatsumi crossed the borders to Kannazuka to find a decent land to plant crops or whatsoever" Tsumi and waved her hand around with the word 'whatsoever'.
"Why are you telling me that anyway?" Tomo asked "Its because you've asked and this historical story is not something forbidden to the public, it's just low on fame" Tsumi said and the place gone quiet.
Tomo then observed the dead vision while rotating it to side by side "...Did you know that you can see a glint of color from a dead vision" Tomo said "A glint of color of what?" Tsumi asked "The color of its element" Tomo said.
"Tsumi... why do you think you chose not to expel me from this body?" Tomo asked curiously while examining each dead visions inside Ei's sling bag.
"It's hard to come up with words... I have my reasons" Tsumi said and added "I have to go now. Stay safe, spirit, and may I wish you a pleasant afterlife" Tsumi waved at Tomo goodbye and walked her way to a small village nearby.
While Tomo was walking his way towards the last swordhilt, he can't get rid of the thought about the ghost samurais died back then in 2,000 years ago.
"There must be a bigger story than this..." Tomo mumbled to himself and arrived to the last swordhilt
He activated it with an electrograna and a ghost samurai appeared before him.He fought and eventually, Tomo taken it down and buried the dead vision on its grave.
Tomo sighed and crouch down with his knees against his chest "The time seemed have slowed down... it's been raining endlessly" Tomo groaned with his cheeks resting on his palms.
He stood up and stretched up the puppet's arms out "Let's finish this before dawn!" Tomo exclaimed and flipped the puppet's hair, on his way to finish the quest.
Tomo went up the mountain above Serpent's head to find the circle of swordhilts.
//Present time//
Tomo hummed while rubbing his chin with his thumb "H-how did the vision hunt decree got their hands on visions from 2,000 years ago???" Tomo asked himself confusedly.
\Meanwhile with Ei\
Ei looked confused of the place she was in "Where am I?" Ei rubbed her head and feels her hair being tied up in a high ponytail.
She was in the middle of the circle of swordhilts with an electrograna by her side.
"How did I got here in the first place? I remembered I was Fort mumei. Why am I here?" Ei asked herself.
The flowing electro energy on the blades of the swordhilts were then lifted, as two ghost samurais appeared.
It was Kazuki and Nozomi. Instead of fighting her, they were fighting against eachother.
Ei watched the ghosts fight, as Ei slowly approached them to stop themselves from fighting.
The two samurais' attention was on Ei and then launched at her like she was an intruder need to be banned.
Ei summoned her naginata and swift her weapon around to fight back.
She dodged their attacks but almost tripped by her own foot because of the ground being soggy and muddy.
Ei was able to defeat the two ghost samurais, as her eyesight became all blur and when her vision cleared up...
She saw light and soft music can be heard with sakura petals swaying in her surroundings.
To be continued
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Guys, do you want a part 2 of this book? I think I'm just gonna postpone the second festival and move it to the second book...Story leak:
"Let us meet again... someday... somewhere... and somehow be friends again...":)
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