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.