"𝖨'𝗆 𝗁𝗈𝗆𝖾"
"Purify all the defilement"
A bright light coming from the red painted yellow talisman that quickly made a transparent blue barrier surrounding us.
When they said that the medium has a possibility of creating a time distortion, I just thought that is the only reason why I get thrown here, but it turns out that I'm wrong.
It's around a thousand years before my original timeline, and a few years later there will be Ryomen Sukuna. It's not much of a surprise since in this timeline, there shouldn't be any humanoid curse exist, but here in my place.. There are many of them wandering around with some poor shaman's dead body laid unmoving on the ground.
I bit my lip in frustration at the situation I'm in. "If only I had my katana with me, at least I won't be a burden for them"
Just standing here and doing nothing won't make the situation less different, if something.. If something that even I can do, I'll do anything.
With that, I braced myself and looked at the sapphire eyed male with a strong determination flashing in my eyes.
Akio looked busy chanting a spell in the talisman he spread around before and sat with crossed legs. His brows furrowed as a big amount of cursed energy flaring from him and activating the seal in every direction within his range.
"Akio-san!"
He peeked through his right eye and with sweat that rolled down his face. Take a deep breath, I assure myself that everything will be alright. "At least, this is the only thing I can do for now"
"Let me help you"
A tense silence taken down upon us as I keeps my gaze sharpened to show him just how serious I am about my statement. I'm amazed at how his concentration didn't waver with all of this, even the amount of cursed energy he let out didn't weaker even for once.
I see him taking out a few yellow talisman with a more complex calligraphy and throwing it at me. Quickly, I reached out for the paper and caught it before it could touch the ground.
"If you really are what we thought, I'm sure you know how to use it". He focused back on what he was doing before. "The spell is the same as how you took down an ordinary barrier"
I nodded at him and walked forward, so we had each other back. Both my hands raised up with the paper were placed between my fingers then concentrating on activating it.
"I've heard them do it before, so I believe that I can do the same"
I let out a heavy breath to lessen the nervousness and anxiety that slowly clouded my judgement. No, I won't let myself be protected all the time. Now is the time I'll prove myself.
With newfound confidence, I started chanting the spell with a determination to protect people around me.
"That which frightens more than darkness itself... That which is darker than black... Purify this defilement"
Suddenly, a surge of cursed energy coming from my body and creating multiple chains that fly around me. The previous talisman I used to activate Akio's spell starting to disintegrate slowly, and disappearing into thin air.
I looked at my hand surprisedly, feeling the familiar feeling I started to missed envelope me.
"Yuuta.."
The familiar hoarse voice of the vengeful spirit echoing through the empty space that makes me freeze in my place. I started to forget the sapphire eyed male's existence as my head slowly lifted up, to see the creatures in front of me looking straight into my soul.
Immediately, I started to dash forward to hug the person I love and began to tear up from the sudden happiness.
"So, have you done with whatever you do there?"
His voice snapped me out of my state. Quickly, I snapped back my head to look at him.
He looked less tired than before. Just the same focused expression still remains on his face.
I reverted back my hand and turned my body to face him fully, then nodded. "I can help you on my own now, you don't need to—"
"Stay there. I'm almost done"
I choose to obey him and stay in my place with the curse hovering over me. A realization flashed through my mind. "Wait, why didn't he be surprised by her appearance?"
"— Return to their place where the dead belong to. I offered my whole soul, to send them into an afterlife"
A bright blue light shining from our place, creating a wide-ranged seal that lifted up the darkness and instantly exorcized every curse around us.
Amazing, I never once saw a cursed technique that could be that beautiful. How the round spell revolving over us and suddenly dispersing and exorcizing all of that.
A bright blue particles from the previous seal releasing floating around make it look like a snowy neon surrounding us.
Akio stood up and approached me. He put his palm on my shoulder and gave me a soft smile. "We're done now. Let's go to Aiko"
After he said that, he walked away in the direction where she went before, leaving me frozen from the fact I never expected.
"He really can't see nor sense her presence". I glanced back at the calm curse behind me and walked forward, catching up with his figure.
After some minutes, we arrived at the very old looking shrine with Aiko-san sitting on the stairs, awaiting us.
She tilt up her head, and notice out presence. Her eyes lifted up with a happiness as she running forwards and embrace the black eyed male.
"Nii-san..."
Akio lifted up his hand to pat her back. His eyes softening at the sight of his sister embraced him tightly with a hidden sadness inside his eyes.
"I'm home, imouto"
And a spike of a long spear thrusting him into his back. His blood splattered all over the ground with my white yukata tainted by the red paint. I lifted up my hand and caressing my cheek then looked at the red substance on my palm.
My eyes widened in horror with the sight I've witnessed. "What the—"
I can feel my breath ragged as I looked up at the female twins.
Her magenta eyes that shines with happiness and passion turned into a cold, lifeless eyes. A bitter expression were planted on her face as she slowly releasing the lifeless body of her brother.
The previous spear that went through his chest disappearing as soon as the owner backed away from him. His lifeless body falling forward with a loud 'thud' right in front of my eyes.
Aiko kneeled in front of him and embracing the dead shaman with an unreadable expression on her face. "I love you, nii-san. I love you more than I love this world. I love you more than I love myself. Rest in peace, Sasayaki Akio"
Something invisible striking through my head, makes me forced into an unconscious as my body falling forward. Before my sight completely blacked out, I see something I haven't noticed before.
On top of the shrine, a word carved on the stone. Although it's carved for a long time, I can still see clearly the word on it. A mix of surprise, terror, sadness, and confused swirled in my eyes. A sense of familiarity on it makes my chest squeezed. There, on the stone, a word I didn't think I'll ever see again makes my brain clicked with the event of these past few days, into all of my life history.
‘「 [Last Name] Shrine」’
Then everything went black.
—「𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬?」—
The black haired young shaman asked with a shaky voice.
Amaya smiled softly at him and jumping down from her place then approaching his bowed figure.
Yuuta slowly lifted his head with a tears that streaming down his face and absolute terror on his eyes. The black haired female kneeled down and embrace him. She leaned her head forward and whispered with a sweet voice.
"Because we were cursed to lose our beloved, as a same person who the curse bestowed upon, I know very well the feeling I have that day"
"And as someone who held a same fate, at least, I want someone to remember, I want someone to knows. Just a little bit is enough... Because all my life is..."
—「𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧」—
I leaning my body forward in a katana with a ragged breath. I barely can standing straight after fighting the equally strong curse user I fought before, before she suddenly disappearing between the shadow.
I lifted my head and trying to walking forward, just a single step. "Yuuta.. I need to find... Yuuta"
Inside my head is all about Yuuta's disappearance. I need to find him. No matter how, I have to find him.
A swirls of black mist appeared in front of me and a foot coming out from it.
I readied myself with a limited energy I have to fighting the enemy.
What comes out of there is beyond my expectation.
Yuuta's figure coming out with the vengeful spirit's presence lingering around him. His eyes looks lifeless, but I know that his heart is still beating, and he's alive.
I throw my katana aside and rushed forward to embrace him. My eyes began to blurry as a sob escape through my lips. I tightened my arms around him and inhaled his scent that I miss dearly, without an intention to ever letting away.
After a moment, he lifted his arms and put it around me. A surge of happiness from his figure that embrace me make me nuzzled my head in his neck.
"I'm home"
"Welcome back"
— ◈◈◈ —
"Did you know how the [Last Name] family was founded?"
"I don't know, how is it?"
"A long time ago, someone made a sacrifice to saving people from the evil spirits by letting his souls corrupted by them. As how the name was formed, the savior has to kill her beloved in order to save his souls— with an old [Last Name] Shrine as reminder with her beloved's death"
【Untold History: END】
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So far, this is my favorite chapter. Fight me.
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