127 5.16 The Prologue, Spoilers And Blood Essense (1/2)
I soon woke up with the sound of the yatai vendors that were calling out to the villagers to come and buy their wares. I made a mental note to buy some raw sweet potatoes so we could eat during tea breaks and so on. There might be some vendors in the marketplace selling bananas as, and if steamed, it would go very well with the afternoon tea.
Today it seems like there's quite a number of yatai vendors and I went out and joined Hiko-sama at the terrace. The calling out of the yatai vendors seems to excite Hiko-sama as well as he kept peering over the neighbours' houses as the vendors seemed to be coming nearer to our district.
”Don't buy so much, Sensei. I suggest since there are two of us, we could buy something like 2 of each kind. What do you think? We can keep it for breakfast tomorrow as well as for afternoon tea. By the way, could we go and get some sweet potatoes so I could steam or baked later for the next coming few days?”
”Seems like a good idea, Himura. Buying raw products saves money. By the way, I think today I feel like eating Ramen. How about you? Then we could buy some Mitarashi Dango so we could steam it for breakfast tomorrow.”
”Ok Sensei, the Mitarashi you can request to separate the coconut shavings aside. If it's not spoilt by tomorrow we can eat it with a pinch of salt, if not then it becomes chicken feed.”
”Sure... Sure... As long as we have enough food, we should be alright. By the way, your katana is ready and you will grind it later?”
”Yes Sensei, it's ready to be grinded but before I place some of my blood essences into it.”
”Are you serious in calling your katana the 'Shinrai to yujo'? Doesn't it seems a bit too weird calling it those names as you already made known to other demons that day as a Battousai?”
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”Don't worry, Sensei. The Kodachi you gave me had another wonderful name. It's called 'Ichi Hitokiru' or 'One Hit Kill'. Is it a beautiful name? As for the katana, it is called 'Shinrai to yujo' because I want to use it for reincarnation for those who had fallen. I can't use the word 'Tensei' because it belonged to the brother of the hanyou I was talking about.”
”How come you knew of so many demons? You ever met them in battle or they ever come by passing your village before?”
”It is best to my knowledge, Sensei. There would be other demons who took a human form while some demons are just, demons. There will be a time when you will meet a sister with a younger brother who was demon slayers or 'youkai taijiya' somewhere in the Youkai Taijiya Village somewhere near Midoriko's Cave.”
”Hmm....i have never heard of this cave before. But maybe those senior samurai would be able to know where the location was.”
”Yes Sensei, it can be considered as it exists only in manga or anime world but not in this real world though. But the people I mentioned earlier exists but it's really hard to find.”
”Hmm...wellxot would be interesting if we could find them. Do you think they would accept people like us? I mean if they do exists do they accept samurai to be their companions? I'm itching to kill some demons too.”
”Well, Sensei...if we exist in their world then their series would take a drastic turn. We both are known characters in our own ways. And if we merge with them, then Rumiko Takahashi would have to rewrite the episodes and I am not sure she would do that. But maybe if we enter during their prologue, just like the both of us right now.”
”I see... I see... So in our prologue, this was the beginning that was not even written in the history right?”
”Yes, Sensei... It was not even written in any novel yet. That's why you are 24 and I am 11. We still got about 4 years before I first starred in the Trust and Betrayal episodes. So in these 4 years, I want to see what I could develop into and then move on just before. Furthermore, our story got a bit twisted along the way when we first met and the plot changed so it takes on a different kind of view.”
”That's right Himura, I was supposed to find you burying the bandits and all those fallen villagers but instead I found you in the snow. I was supposed to be passing by alone when I witnessed a group of bandits ambushed a travelling caravan and you were the sole survivor.”
”That's right, Sensei... If there's no change in the plot the story would have fast forwarded and there weren't many chapters to read. That time I was to be called Shinta and you named me Himura Kenshin. You decided to take me as a disciple from that day.”
” Ah... Correct. That's what it's supposed to be by then a change in the plot makes it more interesting to read right? ”
” Yes, Sensei... That's right. By adding you as apart of the Samurai shogunate as well as adding 4 more side characters then this series had wonderful fillers in between. If not we won't even reach 16 chapters in this series.”
”Oh...thats right Himura. I agree with you. At least there are more elaborate reads in this series rather than the normal ones that many people would know about our history. Furthermore, I don't think we could enjoy ourselves if we were to stick to the main plot and this twist, I'd really like.”
”Yes, Sensei. By the way, are you going to drink the sake all by yourself or you want me to boil some green tea later? It would be nice to snack after dinner and then we can go to the Realm of Mind to witness the insertion of my blood essence and the blade washing too. If you have any dead weapons in your collection, you can bring them along to the Realm of Mind for me to blade wash your weapons to make it more harder and durable.”
”Nevermind, it is OK. Maybe some other time I would bring it into the Realm of Mind. At the meantime, just watching you alone doing the work on the katana excites me already. I have never been to this kind of Realm before and never experiences of the visualisation of things that were before you.”
”Furthermore what happened there would also affect our real world right? I was thinking of sparring with a few guys in your Realm of Mind but I better put it off right now. Just concentrate one thing at a time first then.”
”Yes, Sensei. That's right. It's better for us to enter and exit the Realm of Mind together and if we wanted to experiment of our skills, we can kill shadows instead and we can call another person in to assist us. He could call upon” Kage Bunshin no Jutsu” and we can practise taking them a few at a time. These clones, however, would be able to hurt us back, so be wary.”
Hiko-sama was so excited that he was rubbing his hands together and grinning like a boy that received a present on his birthday. It seems he can't wait to enter the Realm of Mind to spar with a 100 Shadow Clones.
Well, if the Realm of Mind were to put to good use, then it would be most beneficial for us. With a mix and match of other side characters to make this series in the Edo period of Japan, hope it would transfix the readers to their mobile phones all the time.
The yatai that was selling Ramen came and Hiko-sama sama gestured two bowls. He then asked me to fetch two of our bowls from the kitchenette and to place it for the seller to prepare them.
I went to the kitchenette and found 2 large bowls, 2 pairs of chopsticks and 2 porcelain spoons and passed them to Hiko-sama as I gave the bowls to the seller. In a short while later, the seller served us the two bowls of Ramen and Hiko-sama paid up for only 1 silver coin for both bowls.
It was cheap and convenient, and soon we began eating the bowl of Ramen. It was very delectable and eating such on a cool winter's evening makes a great accompaniment.
I looked at the fires that I had made in the backyard and now it had completely burned out. There was only the charred remaining in the ground and soon the wind and snow would be able to help to spread the burnt remains and act as compost.
There was nothing much to do except to toil the land. With the help of the Kamehameha, the hoe that would be used to toil the land would melt the snow and sleet and makes it easier to work on just like it was springtime.