Chapter 1- Reincarnation
Sometime long ago, there lived a young girl, a young lonely demon girl. She had no family, no money, no land, and no one cared for her. For a long time, she hated the world, she hated the skies because that's where her family had gone, and she hated every human- for they were the ones who sent her family there.
To show her hate, she made sure to be nasty to every person that crossed her path, she set traps around her home- a cave, she stole from nearby villages, and she laughed as she crunched on the bones of ill-gotten chicken.
One day, in an attempt to really show the world her hate, she kidnapped a child from a nearby village. The rest of the night, she spent scaring the poor child, sometimes even striking her.
This made the angry girl laugh the whole night through, it is believed that she even laughed in her sleep.
Well the next morning, she awoke to an empty cave- the child had escaped!
At first this annoyed the young girl, she kicked at the cave wall until her feet bled, then she screamed until her voice turned hoarse and her throat ached, and finally she collapsed into a pool of her own tears.
"So much hurt I've caused!" She cried. "And I'm still...alone!"
All the hurt she'd caused, and the annoying sun still raised above her sad little cave, those annoying people carried on with their lives, most didn't even know that the lonely girl existed.
The sad, pitiful, lonely girl, cried and cried, until she had no more to give, until she drowned in a pool of her own tears.
How is that possible?
Well I don't know, I'm just telling the story.
See little Ay, this is why you shouldn't feel sorry for yourself, and why you shouldn't hold grudges...
While you're crying about what could have been and what isn't, you could be out there creating your happy place.
So stop crying.
Chin up little one!
Mother...she told me that story a long time ago, so long ago...I know I've forgotten some things, left some things out...maybe even...improvised. But the point of the story still remains, and her reason for telling it is still as relevant.
Back then, I was...and I still am, that girl.
Not in the literal sense but...
With a sigh and a light moan, Aya Yuta turns herself onto her side against the large tree she sat against, with a peeked eye, she watchs the dripping tree branches above her.
Two turns later, and enough moans to create a symphony, she's burrowed even deeper into the moist earth.
She was soaked already, so she didn't care about a little mud, the rain would just wash it away when she finally decided to get a move on.
She hated getting wet really, to her, there was nothing worse than the smell of wet dog but she didn't have the courage to stand again, not while her feet throbbed the way they did.
Aya, was what some would call "A Traveler", she trekked the world by foot, she came and she saw but she never settled, she had too much of the world to see, too many things on her mind, and she was...too smart to allow herself to be tied down.
Or at least, that was how she liked to imagine herself.
In truth, she was a woman on a mission, she couldn't stop if she wanted to, and though she craved the love of a family, she knew that she could never have one.
Dog demons aren't pack animals, but we sure aren't meant to be alone...
She was lonely, painfully so, but she put up with the loneliness as best she could, the non-stop traveling even helped take the edge off.
Sometimes I wonder, if I should just give up...even if I found him...
Aya's mission was that of 'Search and Destroy', she had been looking for her older brother for a long time, many times she'd found him, but he always managed to get away.
Oh Kize, return to me...so that I could...could show you what you've been missing.
Her thoughts turn angry when the image of his face plasters itself to her mind's eye.
"Kize," she growls
In an attempt to calm her racing heart, she begins to scratch her claws against the trees bark, the splintering wood somehow soothed her.
It won't be long now.
She continues to scratch at the wood, until sleep takes her.
'Pfthuck...pfthuck-pfthuck!'
"Hm, Master Jaken was right, this ball is going flat...but I'm not gonna throw it away...Master Sesshomaru got it for me!"
With this, the 'pfthuck' noise starts again, much to Aya's chagrin.
The sound was reminiscent of throwing mounds of raw meat against a wall...- or maybe something more relatable to the average person, like mixing sauce and noodles in a pot, nasty slimy like noises.
Though it was uncharacteristic of her, Aya decides to ignore the noise and the voice, she scoots her body closer to the tree to escape the sound but it only moves closer.
"Maybe I can just-."
'Spoooooooooooosh'
The noise makes Aya wince and her stomach turn, her ears were very sensitive, as a good full-blooded dog demoness' ears should be.
"One more time..."
'Spoooooo-'
Not again.
In a flash of of movement, the ball in question, is knocked out of a small girl's mouth by the back of Aya's hand.
"What do you think you're doing," Aya hisses as the girl stumbles away. "Don't you see I'm sleeping."
The girl lowers her dark head under Aya's harsh gaze, she pushes her toe in a circle into the earth, seemingly ignoring Aya's question.
"Answer me!" Aya barks.
The little girl bristles a bit at this; she almost anxiously begins to tug a lock of hair in her small fist.
"I am sorry," she whispers, "I didn't know you were there..."
The girl takes a deep breath before training her eyes on Aya, she appeared to be hiding the want to smile now, Aya folds her arms across her body when the girls' eyes sweep over her from head to toe.
"...and if I had known such a pretty lady was resting in these woods, I would have minded my manners...I am so-so-so sorry!" The girl hastily concludes.
The little girl smiled at her now, with a deep curtsy and a respectful bow, she introduces herself.
"Rin, nice to meet you Miss." She extends her hand to Aya, but Aya ignores the child's attempt at getting her to lighten up.
"Gone,"
With one final glare, Aya turns on her heel to leave, she didn't have to time to play around with some-, she pauses to sniff the air, some human girl in the woods.
I have my own humans to care for and I barely see them, what makes this child think I'm interested in her.
Besides, why is she being so nice to me...shouldn't she be afraid?
Rin wrings her hands together as the lady demon moves further away, this morning she had come out alone, in an sad attempt at proving her independence, she had left Jaken and Sesshomaru behind, as far as she knew, they were still sleeping in a glen not too far from where she stood. However, upon seeing the beautiful lady demon, her child-like fear returned and with it came her natural curiosity, who was this tall demoness with face markings not too different her Lord Sesshomaru's?
"Wait for me Lady...what's your name!?"
With a fist-full of lifted skirts the child begins to follow Aya, like an annoying little gnat, she dances a circle around Aya before planting herself right at her feet.
"You're a persistent little human, aren't you." Aya says to the child before pushing her foot under Rin's body, Rin squeals as Aya lifts her away.
With a curt nod and stiff upper lip, Aya once again attempts to leave the child but to no avail.
"Again-again!" Rin sings from behind her.
Aya turns to her with an exasperated sigh, for a moment they stare at one another, until Aya's hard demeanor falters. She couldn't help but smile a bit at the child, with her dark eyes and hair, she reminded Aya of someone she once loved.
She looks a lot like Mio...
"Ok child, come."
With little to no hesitation, Rin rushes over to Aya who held her head away from her to stop tears from surfacing.
"My name is Aya, I am a dog demoness...which means I am the last person you should be trying to make friends with, do you think your parents would be happy with this," Aya whispers to her, she glances at Rin, half expecting her to run away but she only pushes closer.
Rin's smile grows, "my Lord Sesshomaru is a dog demon as well, if you're alone Lady Aya, I am sure he'd have no issue bringing you along, he's getting old you know, and really boring...I think he'd like the company."
Ha, so she wishes to play matchmaker, how cute. However, I not someone worth matching, and I've heard of her Lord...he's supposed to be some big and tough demon, someone worth avoiding.
Nevertheless, I find it strange that such a man would carry around a human girl, a servant maybe?
"Little Rin, you should get back to your Lord, it is dangerous out here...too many stragglers and petty criminals." Aya says in a rushed whisper but Rin pushes even closer.
"Please, I'm the only girl in our group and it gets really lonely, there's no one to do my hair...look at it...ever since my mama passed away, it's looked like this!"
"But Rin-"
"Ah, there you are girl!"
Through trees, comes a small Toad demon, his face turns into a mask of granite when Rin rushes over to him.
"What are you doing out here you stupid girl, Lord Sesshomaru's going to be mighty sore when he finds out what you've done!" He shouts, he shakes his staff angrily at her, as if getting ready to hit her but he stops when Aya steps forward..
"She was just trying to get back, weren't you dear Rin?"
Rin smiles when Aya winks an eye at her, "yeah," she agrees.
The Toad looks between them almost suspiciously, he couldn't put his finger on it, but he could feel dishonesty in the air. He takes a moment to shoot the lady demon a glare before taking Rin's arm, he couldn't stand here and argue with two stupid females, not while Lord Sesshomaru could be searching for them right then.
"Let's go Rin," he hisses as he begins to pull her along but Rin overpowers him.
"But Lady Aya, I really want you to meet him," Rin rushes back into the vibrant red skirt's of Aya's kimono. "I know that once he sees you-."
"You stupid girl, he has no use for such a woman...why she's too stupid to even know what's good for her, when the Lord sees her here, he will have her head!" The Toad demon, clearly feeling at an advantage, brandishes his staff in Aya's face, she only turns away.
"Sorry Rin, but this Toad is getting on my nerves...I've got to go." says Aya as she starts for the distance.
This time, she manages to the ignore Rin's cries, and before long, she's a good distance away from them, only their smells remained. Aya lowers her head to get a better whiff of what Rin had left behind.
How didn't I notice before, the smell of the Lord is pretty well in there...he smells pretty young and virile, best stay away, not looking to get poked.
"Though it has been a while," Aya yawns as she says this, but her feet kept moving, as strong as her libido may have been, she didn't want to be conquered by some random dog demon.
In my younger days, I was a bit looser and my parents hated it but what could they do, what Aya wanted, Aya got. She...got it all.
"You two may be perfect, but I'm not...if you're all so perfect, if I'm such a disgrace then just leave me alone!"
How I wish I could take those words back. Now that I am alone, I'm afraid...though I hide it, I just...I just want to be held again, by my father and mother...and Mio...sometimes even Kize.
I want to know that I am loved.
That my living wasn't a mistake...
When the thoughts take her mind, Aya again is able to forget about the pain in her feet, she walks and walks...and walks and walks, until her feet scream louder than the damning voices in her head.
She nearly falls but she manages to catch herself with the blade of her katana, beads of sweat fall from her forehead to the ground as she fights to catch her breath, the pain in her feet had taken her breath away.
Some dog demoness I am, defeated by the ground...
She struggles to keep herself standing, but she could feel her knees giving out, she grunts as she turns her head to look at her surroundings.
Another clearing, but this one was in familiar territory, when she sees a dark spot against the trunk of a tree at the distance, she allows herself to fall.
Someone will find me...
It takes them a while, but someone does.
"Mio, grab her ankles...her feet are bleeding, I'll take her arms!"
Aya smiles to herself in her half awake state, she knew that that they would come, and though it made her feel weak to allow them to do this again, she knew she had no other choice.
"Ay, you did it again..."
Sorry.
Without another word, her "saviors" carry her away from the clearing, and into a very familiar smelling village.
Yurime, I guess I could call it home...
Almost seven years ago, Aya stumbled into Yurime, bloodied and broken. Originally, the townspeople were hesitant about keeping her, but they could do nothing about the dangerous dog demoness taking up residence in a small shack in the shadowy part of the village. With time came tolerance and acceptance from most of the villagers, as expected there were some who were hesitant but they were far between.
"Ugh, Mio open the door!"
"I'm trying, why don't you help!?"
"Because I'm already pretty much carrying her, just set her legs down...gently."
With a loud 'thack' the house door is opened and Aya is carried over the final hurdle, upon entering the house, she's enveloped in the familiar smells of her humans.
Almond milk...Lana. And roses...Mio.
The girl who barked orders- Lana, quickly places Aya on a mat in the middle of the floor, she pauses at her side to watch her for movement, but upon seeing none, she turns to her sister expectantly.
"Get her a blanket, and some bandages!"
Mio, her reluctant follower, hesitates for a moment, but she follows her older sister's orders. In a short flurry of footsteps and bunch of banging noises later, Mio returns to Lana's side, holding the aforementioned items.
"Thank you, Mio."
Lana leans over Aya's body to look her over again, she takes note of her feet, which seemed to be the most pressing matter, sheruns her eyes up Aya's body before placing her gaze at Aya's face.
At her lips, there was a small smirk, the kind that Aya wore when she was causing trouble so it only worries Lana more.
"Look, she smiling." Lana whispers more to herself than to Mio.
She lifts the skirts of her tattered kimono as she crawls over to Aya's feet, upon seeing them, her stomach turns.
There was a lot of blood and torn flesh, pebbles and bits of dirt at lodged themselves within the wounds creating dark brown patches at parts of Aya's feet.
"Oh Ay, why do you do this to yourself?"
Lana takes Aya's feet gently into her lap and begins to work at removing the pebbles, with a toss of her head, she beckons for Mio to retrieve water from the outside well and seeing the hurt on Lana's face, Mio listens without opposition.
Ay, how long has it been since you started on this road...to destruction? Lana wonders to herself.
After being in Yurime for some time, and after recovering her body, Aya took her still bleeding heart on the road to find revenge. It had been nearly six months ago, on the very last day of Spring, that she left Lana and Mio behind in a rush of red and cherry blossoms. The young girls had begged her to stay, but her resolve could not be swayed, they didn't know what had caused her sudden need to go, but all they could do was hope that she'd return home safely.
And return she did, but the safely part was subjective.
It had become a trend that every 2 months, Aya would return to Yurime, bloodied and beaten- by herself.
Sometimes, Lana questioned if Aya was really searching for anything but death, the thought hurt, but she knew Aya more than anyone. The woman that now lay before her, had told stories of challenging entire Akuma no Satsujinsha villages, who but a demon searching for death would do such a thing?
"More water!"
Lana's face darkens as she continues to chip away at 2 months worth of dirt and stone, and when she's done, the expression she wears is grim. Mio tugs at her kimono and Lana looks down at her.
"Will she be OK," Mio whispers.
Lana bends down to pick up the dirtied supplies that littered the floor, "yes Mio...she'll be OK, let's just let her rest now."
As they move away from her, Aya peeks an eye open.
Lana and Mio, my little girls...I've raised them for the last 5 years, after their mother died. They never had a father...so somehow, I ended up with the job.
The villagers tried to stop it, saying that a demon could never truly care for a human but...the littlest one, Mio...that girl fought to be with me.
With her strong will and...wail, she got them to leave us alone and we lived happily until one day I just got this itch, the itch to go figure things out and get my revenge. My brother, Kize, he...he messed up and now I suffer for his evil.
Aya raises a leg into the air to look at her tightly bandaged foot, "thank you Lana."
"It's...nothing."
Aya dies a bit inside when the smell of salt reaches her nose, she turns her gaze to where she had last seen the girls, they both still stood there, tears in their eyes. Lowering her leg, Aya reaches for them and they crowd around her, both crying and holding her close.
So much for pretending to be sleep, I didn't want this to happen...I love them...I don't say it and hell, I rarely show it but I don't want them to hurt.
Once again, some demon I am, having humans cry at my absence...
For the rest of the night, they stay this way.
The next morning in Yurime, was a very dreary one. The rain had come and gone again, and it left the ground moist and the air filled with fog. The sound of birds chirping rouses the children in Aya's home, Lana and Mio open their eyes sleepily and upon seeing the other staring back at them so closely, they push away from one another.
"You're so weird!"
"Oh grow up Mio!"
They glare at each other for a while but Mio breaks it first by turning her attention to Aya who stood before a large mirror at the corner of the room, she was a vision in white, her black hair was tied up into a long flowing ponytail and she was actually wearing shoes.
"I'm getting ready to go," she whispers without looking at them.
She turns to them with a small smile, she raises her arms in a manner that says 'well, how do I look'.
"Your appearance doesn't matter if you're going to die," Lana grumbles bitterly.
Aya sighs.
I knew I should have left before they woke up.
"I'm sorry, but my mission has not been completed and so, I must leave you again."
Aya sheathes her katana as she moves for the door, she slides it open and immediately she's hit in the face with morning mist. She glances back at the girls before stepping down from the house and to the outside, but upon her feet landing, she's attacked from the back by Mio, who wraps her arms around her leg.
"No Ay, you can't go!" She screeches.
Aya looks down at the child with a small sigh, she gently shakes at her leg but Mio held tight.
"Mio, let me go."
Mio ignores her request even as Aya begins to walk and drag her across the mud, pretty soon they're almost to the middle of the village but Mio showed no signs of letting go, and Aya- no signs of stopping.
They are so entrapped in their own struggle for supremacy, that they don't even notice Lana approaching until she's but a few feet away, Aya raises a brow as Lana lunges for her, she grabs Lana's arm, tossing her into a nearby mound of mud.
This shocks Mio into letting Aya go, they both stare at Lana who lay silently into the mud. Her body shudders violently before she begins to cry.
"Lana," Aya starts but the feeling of being watched stops her, she looks up.
Nearly the entire village stood around them now, some wore genuine faces of sadness but some looked on with the expectation of Aya to show her demonic side, Aya narrows her eyes at these ones, their malice could almost be felt.
Once again Aya goes to speak but a familiar sounding voice stops her.
"Lady Aya, how nice to see you again!"
Aya's other leg is taken by another small person, when she's looks down, her gaze is met with Rin's happy one.
"Hello Rin," she offers the girl a small smile before pulling away from her.
Mio, who had by now gone to help Lana, watches them with what looked like mild suspicion, Lana did as well but with more anger than anything.
"What a coincidence, we meet again!"
Rin raises her arms above her head in such a delightful manner than Aya has to laugh a bit, she nods to her before turning back to her hurting girls.
"Lana, I'm sorry...but you know...I cannot stay, not until...not until Kize is dealt with." She whispers as she makes her way over to them, but as she approaches she notices a darkness in Lana's eyes that she had never seen before. "Do you hate me Lana...," Aya looks down as she says this, "if you do, then good...that's the way it was always supposed to be."
She turns to leave again but she runs right into the chest of another demon, she runs her eyes slowly up his chest, straight to his amber eyes.
Lord Sesshomaru, I presume?
He had the soft yet striking features that most Inu Daiyoukai possessed, and their white hair as well, everything about him was perfect. Aya couldn't help but marvel a bit at his appearance, even though she wasn't usually attracted to other demons.
"Excuse me," she mumbles as she goes to move around him, when she does she sees the toad demon from the day before, he glared up at her as she moved past.
"That is her mi'lord, the woman who Rin met in the woods!" He cries while pointing an accusatory finger at her.
Sesshomaru narrows his eyes at Jaken, "I know."
He looks down at Rin when she rushes to his side, she grips the bottom of his pant-leg in her fist, "see my lord, pretty right?"
Sesshomaru ignores her question, he was too busy trying to figure out what was happening around him, two crying human girls, a bunch of stagnant villagers and a clearly hurting dog demoness, all in one place, neither side tried to hurt the other, it was just strange.
"Ay," Mio cries, "please don't go!"
Aya pauses for a moment, she looks over her shoulder at Sesshomaru.
What was I thinking, I can't leave, not while he's here...who knows what he'll try.
"What brings you here, Lord Sesshomaru." She makes her way over to him, he studies her with a cool eye but he doesn't answer her question.
Aya cocks her head, "well?"
"The great Lord Sesshomaru does not owe you an answer, wench!"
Aya bares her teeth at the Toad demon and he rushes away from her, to hide behind his master's leg.
"Well if you're not going to answer me, I suggest you leave, this land is not on the Western side, so you have little to no authority here."
With this, Aya goes to move away from him but he appears before her again.
"I don't need to be on my lands to kill anyone though." He says through gritted fangs.
Aya sighs, "oh so afraid, the big bad puppy is going to hurt me...someone...someone please stop him."
Sesshomaru's glare turns even fiercer when she laughs in his face.
"Death does not scare me, puppy." She says in a sing-song voice as she makes her way over to Lana and Mio, who cling to her now.
Jaken shakes his staff at her angrily, "you do not speak to mi'lord that way, you flea-ridden harlot, he will have your head for this!"
Aya laughs, the toad amused her, he stark belief in his lord was commendable but stupid, anyone who put all of their belief in one person, was stupid in her eyes.
I did too at once, I believed in Kize...
"I will stay, until he goes." Aya whispers to Lana who nods.
"Ay, I'm-."
Aya presses her finger against Lana's lips, there was no need for Lana to explain what Aya already knew.
"Now, let's go...clean up that house, you two are worse than a litter of pig demons."
Aya lifts Mio into her arms and they begin to walk away from Sesshomaru and his group, but Rin gives chase.
"Lady Ay, can I come...I'm really good at cleaning!" Rin says with clasped hands.
Aya looks down at her before setting her eyes on Sesshomaru.
No wonder the girl clings to me the way that she does, he's like a statue, nice to look at but overall...soulless and boring.
"Well Rin, I would say yes but your Lord looks like he's ready to go, wouldn't want to keep him waiting." Aya says with mock concern.
Rin turns to Sesshomaru who shakes his head.
"I don't care what you do, I will be nearby...we leave at sunset." Sesshomaru says before turning away.
Aya gasps, she hadn't expected him to allow Rin to be with her, and why would he stay in a human village that long?
"Well...come Rin...I guess we can clean up enough to entertain."
She takes Rin's hand and they start for home.
Jaken looks up at Sesshomaru with large buggy eyes, "b-but Mi'lord, why? Why would allow such a thing and why would you allow her to speak to you that way!?"
Sesshomaru's glare silences him, he turns away before jumping into a nearby tree. Jaken lifts his arms as if asking for help but Sesshomaru ignores him.
The day stretches on, with no sign of Sesshomaru leaving, even as the girls fell asleep on the floor, Sesshomaru did not come for Rin. Aya growls at the full moon from her place in the window, he had ruined her plans. She grabs the handle of her katana as she moves for the door, she could still feel him nearby, pretty close too.
However, once she begins to follow his scent, he begins to move away from her, she quirks a brow at this, did he know she was coming to him, if so, why run away?
His scent though...it's...strange.
Though something tells her not to, she follows him and his scent to a glen not too far from her home, once there, he stops a mere 10ft away from her but she still doesn't see him, for some reason, he hid in the trees.
"Lord Sesshomaru," she calls, "we need to talk!"
Suddenly, he falls from a tree before her, for some reason his presence felt more ominous than ever, as he looked at her with red glowing eyes.
Aya raises a brow at him, he appeared almost angry but his eyes held a feeling or emotion that she had seen many times, but lately more so on human men.
Dammit, this is what I get for staying around humans so long...he's in heat, he probably thinks I want him.
Is that why he gave Rin to me, to protect her from himself?
Well if that's the case, he sure doesn't care about taking his...frustrations...out on me.
"I'm sorry for bothering you," she says backing away. "I did not know."
She turns to leave but like earlier in the day, he blocks her path. Aya groans when his scent fills her nostrils. As a demon woman, his scent was tantalizing to her, as her own hormones rise she begins to wonder if her need to follow him was as innocent as she thought it was.
Maybe that's why I was so attracted to him earlier, my body wants him.
"Undress," he whispers taking her by the hips.
He rubs his lips against her earlobe as he pulls her body into his, both of their breaths become weighty at the anticipation of coitus but Aya's will was a bit stronger.
"No," she whispers weakly, "I've got to get back to the children...they might wake up...they might come looking for me...what if they find us...like...like this?"
Sesshomaru ignores her breathy excuses as he begins to untie her obi, she reaches weakly for his hands but a sharp growl from him makes her stop.
I can't believe this is happening, but I want it...I want it so badly...but...but...I can't.
She yelps when he throws her into a nearby tree, he rushes between her legs before gripping her thighs, lifting them until her legs were wrapped around him. She pushes her hands into his shirt, spreading it until she sees his chest.
Where the fuck is the toad when you need him, somebody...stop me!
He leans in to kiss her but the smell of rotting flesh and sulfur interrupts them, Aya squirms out of Sesshomaru's grip and onto the ground.
I know that smell...
"Dear-dear Aya, being a slut again?"
Aya covers her half exposed upper body as anger fills her chest, "Kize...why don't you come and be a good big brother, stop me!"
Kize's raspy laughter fills the glen, it has a sobering affect on both Aya and Sesshomaru, he looks to her with light orange eyes.
"Who is that," he growls but Aya ignores him.
"Why do you keep running away, face me...or are you afraid!" She draws her katana as she gets to her feet.
"Dear Ay, if you really want to see me, come to the Southern lands...I'll be waiting for you there, but be quick, for if you're not...our game of cat and mouse shall continue."
"Stop playing with me," she shouts but as she does, his scent disappears.
Aya stabs her katana into the earth angrily, how did he always manage to do that, to dangle his life before her and then snatch it away. Why make a game out of their very serious feud, when they both wanted the other dead?
I'm going to find you Kize, and when I do...I'm going enjoy picking you apart.
She watches the sky with red glowing eyes as she pulls her katana out of the ground, she places it over her shoulder before turning her attention to Sesshomaru, he was watching the sky as well, he seemed to have forgotten about his need to breed because he turns to her with that same stoic gaze from earlier in the day.
"Leave me, now."
Aya nods, "you don't have to tell me twice and don't worry...," she holds her breath as she walks past him, "...I won't tell Rin of your bad behavior."
He snorts before turning away to sit on the ground, Aya watches him for a moment before leaving him to his self.
Well, that wasn't the interruption I was hoping for, but it worked. Tonight should have been the worse of it, he should be better by morning, so Rin will be safe to go with him again.
Good, then I can continue my journey.
Kize, I'm coming.
Next Chapter: Interest in the Broken Demoness