This website provides a fan translation of the Playstation 2 game Akai Ito.

修羅

Carnage

Sakuya: What's going on!? What's this smell of blood---

By the time Sakuya-san's voice rang from the hall, the mirror-bearing kugutsu had just disappeared from the room.

Sakuya: Hey, Uzuki! What the hell-

Her words freeze and her movement comes to a stop.

Of course, you would be speechless...

If you took a bath with a drink, and came back in a good mood, only to find many people collapsed in your room.

Furthermore, the room has become a sea of blood, with me as its origin, her best friend's daughter.

Uzuki: Ah......

Sakuya: Uzuki! Explain what happened here, right now!

Uzuki: I......

Sakuya: You what?

Uzuki: I killed Kei-san......

Sakuya: You killed Kei? That's crazy-!

Uzuki: That's right, I killed her! I was made to kill her, with my own hands!

Sakuya: ---Eh?

Uzuki: I can't forgive them. Because of oni, I end up killing people precious to me... because of oni...

Taking hold of the fallen Ito and its sheath, Uzuki-san drops her eyes at me, under Yumei-san's care.

Uzuki: Damn them!

Sakuya: Hey! Uzuki!

Her frayed hair swinging behind her, she leaps from the room.

I want to chase after her, but Kei-kun's body won't do as I tell it.

Sakuya: ......Hey.

Still without a good grasp of the situation, Sakuya-san asks Kei-kun, with a troubled face.

Sakuya: ......Don't tell me... did she really?

Kei: Because of their strategy. They set her to kill me, and Kei jumped in the way.

Sakuya: Kei...... how could you do something so crazy......

She runs her eyes over me, receiving Yumei-san's healing, and whispers. Those words... as if she were angry.

I wonder if, by doing that, I made the situation worse...

If so, then I'm such a---

Yumei: You know...

Yumei-san finally raises her face. She turns to look directly this way - at Kei-kun.

Her eyes, suffused with nostalgia, are much the same as when she looks at me...

Yumei: You should go after Uzuki-san. She's not in a state that you can leave alone.

Being the god, Ohashirasama, does she know that I'm inside Kei-kun?

Yumei: Against herself, for cutting Kei-chan... and against the oni that forced her hand... the feelings of resentment are swirling inside her, and she's about to be swallowed up.

Yumei: If this continues, she'll turn into an oni.

Uzuki-san, an oni...

Yumei: If she does, Kei-chan will be sad. Please, stop her.

I want to stop her.

I want to go after her right now, and stop her.

But this body isn't mine, and I cannot move as I wish.

As I writhe with frustration, the one who comes to save me is---

Kei: I got it. I'll go.

The owner of this body, Kei-kun.

Kei: Out of all of us, I'm the one most closely related to her situation. With our common origins, I think I can bring her around.

Kei: I'm the most qualified to do so.

Yumei: ............

Kei: Sakuya-san, those two might come again, so take care of Kei and Yuune...

Sakuya: Yeah, I know.

Yumei: Please. That person is important to Kei-chan......

Kei: I know. It'll work. I'll make sure it works...

Kei: After all, the end is close for me, too.

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