鬼切りと鬼
The Oni Slayer and the Oni


Uzuki: ......It's over?

The presence of Nushi that had flooded the blue darkness in a red haze withers like a balloon and fades.

Uzuki: ............

Uzuki-san must think dubiously of that disappearance, too, confirming the prone Nushi - if he was extinguished, Kei-kun's body - with the power of her kenki.

Kei: ............

As I swallow my breath nervously, watching over her, she moves her blue gaze slowly from the top of his head to the tips of his nails.

Uzuki: Phew......

Uzuki-san exhales a long breath, letting the power drain from her shoulders. Nushi's wakemitama is no longer anywhere in Kei-kun's body.
As I am about to fall over from the broken tension, another bit of good news arrives.

Yumei: Sakuya-san's condition is stable, now.

And that does it.

Kei: Hauu~~~

I collapse into the shape of the 大 (dai) kanji, looking up at the moon shining in the distant sky.
The moon of fifteen nights... the moon of the Obon Festival... the big, round moon... the chilly moon... the mirror-like moon.

Kei: Ah......

In that moon mirror .... is reflected.
It reflects the thing inside of me.
It reflects back the oni inside of me.

Kei: Ah...... Aah......

A red thing coils inside.
A vortex.
A red vortex... draws my surroundings into it, then clamps down and tries to swallow me whole.

Kei: Why.....

When I connected with Kei-kun...
Ahh, that's it. That's what it was...
When it first laid eyes on me, I was probably already possessed by then.

Uzuki: ......Kei-san, is something wrong?

I shake my head at Uzuki-san, as she approaches unawares.

Uzuki: ......Kei-san?

As it begins to succumb to the coiling will, moving my body becomes agonizingly painful...

Yumei: It can't be......

Before Uzuki-san, the Ohashirasama, having a deep connection to that known as Nushi - Yumei-san - guesses right.
I nod, telling her it is exactly as she fears.
Just in time... I am being bound.

Kei: You know, Uzuki-san, I just... cant......

Kei: It looks like... I can't keep it back a long time, like Kei-kun did......

Like my fingers coming off one by one as I hang on a cliff, I could be swallowed up by the vortex even now.
Just barely, I manage to hold on by my pinky finger.
The finger that made a promise with Uzuki-san.
I sustain myself by clinging to that bond we tied together.
But, even so...

Kei: At this rate, I'll become an oni...

Stepping my bare feet into the garden, I slowly approach the place where she stands.

Kei: I'll probably... wind up hurting you, Uzuki-san...

That is one thing I couldn't bear.

Kei: So, I... me... the oni inside me...

So, I beg you.

Kei: I want you to... slay it.

A wind passes straight through the cloudless night sky.
Far beyond its reach, the moon.
A bright moon.
So bright, I can barely see the starlight.

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