Chapter 103 - Volume 6 (1/2)
Volume 6, Chapter 14: The Devil War, Part 1
That’s right! I’m Yurushia!
With those memories back, I have all of my power now. Looking now, I can see my golden hair and pale, porcelain hands after a long absence… It really is a completely different body from ‘Yuzu,’ who was just human.
Both bodies were ‘Me,’ but while being in Yuzu was familiar for my mind, this body of Yurushia is completely optimized for handling my demonic powers.
I thought that this form came from a demon possessing a dead baby, but this body had the same features as ‘Yuzu.’
What do I mean by that?
Not to say that it isn’t still creepy, it’s just that this body has attributes from this [Incarnation].
Eh, it’s fine anyways.
“Where… is this?”
Around me is something like a field of lightning, shining lights suspended in the air.
I can move my arms and legs normally, and can see the daytime sky above, but my other surroundings are blocked by the lights and I can’t see past them.
“Hn?”
Just then, I saw a black dot falling from the sky right above me.
“[Yurushia!]”
“Rinne!”
The same [Black Cat] that I had seen as Yuzu landed on my shoulder.
Honestly… after such a long time apart.
“Rinne… Sorry. It was hard for me to remember.”
“[No, it’s okay.]”
Now that I look closer, the amount of magical power that Rinne feels like he has is much smaller.
“Did you get weaker…?”
“[… I used the seal that Yurushia made to interfere with [The Past]. I could barely even take my ability to speak with me like this…]”
‘… Thank you.”
As I touched Rinne’s face, he gave my face a gentle lick.
“… What was that? You’re really not a dream?”
“[This is unmistakably [The Past]. The history of the world has changed accordingly.]”
… if that’s the case I died not because of sickness at 15, but of being stabbed and dying before I even reached 12.
When I thought that, I got a bit mad.
That woman… If that “Matsuri” is still in this world, she’d better be ready.
“So, when is it?”
“It’s been… six months since we’ve came to this dimension.”
“Half a year…”
It was quite a long time to be sealed.
That reminds me, it feels like my arms and legs have grown.
I see… without knowing it, I turned 12 years old.
This past year, half was spent fighting [Demon Road]’s Hi… Hira… what was it, something like Nurarihyon over and over, the other half I spent in a seal.
So anyways, I’m 12 years old now…
“… I see”
Back then, Onzada said the technique was called something with “12” and “Hourglass” in it.
Maybe the original technique was meant to keep a presence away from being a baby up through being 12 years old.
Since Yusushia was close to 12 years old, was the original ceremony cheated?
If that’s correct, I would have been completely destroyed when Yuzu, or rather Yurushia now, reached age 12, but since I traveled to the past, it couldn’t crush my life and tried to re-start at age 6.
Due to the ambiguity from the memories of “Me” remaining, as well as the interference from Rinne’s sacrifice, I was able to regain my [Demonic] power.
That irritated the [Presence]. So, using a person like Matsuri, who interfered with the completion of the technique, a fight happened that allowed me to awaken before I was twelve years old.
… something like that?
“Rinne, I’ll be escaping form this ‘cage’ for now”
“[… And then?]”
Since Rinne seemed to understand my plan, based on his tone, I gave a little smile.
“An Extermination.”
This is the first time I’ve been made into such a fool…
“…[Shine the Light of Terror]…”
The cage of light isn’t holy attribute, but it had the effect of sealing a ‘Demon.’ So, my anti-demon weapon [Sacred Series] won’t work.
So I was making a new type of magic from the spiritual world, something I’ll need to defeat other hostile non-demons.
“…[Pierce!… Spear of Night]…!”
A jet-black spear more than 5 meters long appeared, and I scraped the cage of light with it.
*Pakyiiiiiiiiin*
The struck light cage made a sound like glass breaking.
… Is this a temple? No, a Shrine? It’s surrounded by forests, but since I can see skyscrapers in the distance, it shouldn’t be far from Tokyo.
“……”
Looking around, hundreds of priests were surrounding me within a dozen meters.
Their eyes were filled with awe and fear as they looked at me. So, as I looked away from them, I took in my unreal features and made a face.
Among the men, one wearing only casual clothes and a leather jacket with another person were being held back by the surrounding people.
That person… where’s he going.
“…Yuzu!”
The voice is different, but something sounds nostalgic about how he said that word.
*Shara*… the thin black chain appeared that stretched from my hand straight to that person.
No way…
“Onzada-kun!?”
When I yelled out, the men finally seemed to get back their bearings after the shock.
“It can’t be…”
“The dark one has been let out…”
“This guy got in the way…”
“Be calm, I will restart the ritual ceremony.”
“… For world peace.”
“Work together.”
“Gyaaa”
“Guuaaaaaa!”
“Who is that!?”