The Dead One: The Final Grudge

Chapter 68

A beautiful woman who held a sad face wearing the black and red yukata...he immediately knew who this woman was...

Kuro: Are you...the Geisha Woman... Koizumi Aishiteru...?

Koizumi:.......

All of this was surprisingly nocturnal...

Kuro couldn't believe he was actually seeing the Geisha Woman who was Chibi's paternal grandmother who was a relative to Mei as well...

The only thing that surprised him was that she wasn't an actual vengeful spirit...

Just a sad broken spirit of her former self...

How she coped was different from the other Aishiteru family that suffered everyday in misery.

Kuro:......

Koizumi:....

The Geisha Woman stared at Kuro for a moment for reaching for something in her yukata.

Then she pulled out what seem to be a small test tube.

Kuro: What is this?

Koizumi:....

Kuro then looked at the small tube. There seemed to be something inside.

Kuro: Could this...Help Mei?

Koizumi:.....*Nods*

Kuro: Why...are you giving this to me though?

Koizumi:.......

Not really expecting an answer Kuro just shrugged it off. But...now he understand...the Geisha Woman wasn't a game...

It was a test...

A ritual...

It was totally different from the other death traps that were mustered up by Yokai-chan.

But Kuro knew what he had to do...

Kuro: Can you tell me where the shrine is...along with the mirror that holds the Realm of the Dead...

Koizumi pointed into another direction...

Where she was pointing was another room.

Kuro: Arigatou...

The Geisha Woman made a small smile...before she vanished inside the mirror...

Kuro: Maybe...the reason why she gave me this is because she wanted all this to end...I don't blame her...I want this madness to end as well...

Kuro then leaves the mirror and walked into the same direction in the halls.

The hallways grew eerily quiet as Kuro finally made it to the door.

He opened it up and looked inside.

Kuro:.....Why am I not surprised...It took me a while...But I found it...

The Shrine and the Mirror....they both were in Mei's bedroom...

Kuro: So this is where Yokai-chan put it at...

Kuro walked over to the Sacred Shrine...

The Shrine that supposed to be respected for the Dead One...

The Mirror was set down onto the shrine that held the Realm of the Dead...

Where Yokai-chan is keeping Mei at...

Kuro: Okay...I'm here...so now what?

Kuro then looked at the small tube the Geisha Woman gave him...

Kuro: I wonder what inside...

He opened up the tube and looked inside...

Kuro: Is this... spiritual incense?

The type of things that are used for clearing negative energy in the room. Kuro then realized why the Geisha Woman gave him this...

Kuro: In order to free Mei from the Realm of the Dead...I have to cleanse the mirror! That makes sense now!

Because since the mirror holds so much negative energy coming from it. Enough spiritual incense can get rid of all the negative energy and turn it to positive...

Kuro: How did she had this...even in the afterlife...?

Kuro decided to leave that answer unsolved for now...

Time is running out...

He better hurry.

Kuro: Shouta...Hibiki...

Kuro quickly got to work and did the ritual.

Kuro poured the spiritual incense onto the mirror and watched it glowed.

He then grabbed the mirror and aimed for the shrine.

Kuro: Reveal her to reality!

The mirror started shaking rapidly as the whole room shake as well. Kuro watched a large ray of light shoot out of the mirror as heard screams coming from inside.

That's when he saw a hand coming from out of the mirror.

Kuro: Mei?!

He quickly grabbed her hand but she wasn't budging.

Kuro: Mei! Hold on! I'm getting you out of there!

He came this far! He isn't going to lose her again!

Kuro: Bare with me Mei! You can do it! 1...2....3!!!

Kuro pulled as hard as he can.

Like a miracle had struck, Mei was completely pulled out of the mirror...

Mei: Aaah?!

Kuro: Whoa!

Both of them fell to the ground as both the mirror and the room stopped shaking.

Kuro looked at the mirror for a moment before looking down at Mei...she was back to her normal self. Her short black hair with her grey eyes that still held a little light in them...she also still had on her school uniform.

Almost like the other form she had never existed...

Kuro: Mei...?

Mei:....K-Kuro?

Kuro: Oh Thank Goodness...Mei... You're... You're...

Mei: Kuro...You saved me...You...

Mei then passed out from exhaustion...Kuro didn't blame her...

After all she been through...after what Yokai-chan had put her through...She needed some rest...

Kuro: (I saved you Mei...For once...I actually saved you...We better get back to Hibiki...)

But Kuro knew...even though Mei was safe now...However the events that were happening now was far was over...