Prologue
At first I thought it was curiosity what made me move to the woman in the water. Hijikata-san saw she was armed with weapons, knowing Edo, no, whole Japan is at war he ordered the Shinsengumi to take her with us, creating a new secret to be kept. One was the rasetsu, something which only the high ranking officers knew about, something I discovered by fate, when I first met them. When I got attacked by those ronin and two of the rasetsu killed the ronin. The second secret was me being a girl and being kept alive while living at the headquarters of the Shinsengumi, not only that, the fact that I was an oni was also kept secret. Now one more burden came across, the moment we took her in.
She wasn't severely wounded when we arrived at the headquarters at Shinagawa, Kamaya, Edo. However, she had also something to hide, something which surprised us all. The longer the Shinsengumi kept her alive, the more Hijikata-san and the others started to doubt whether it was a good idea to take her in.
Her name was Unggu Fasi, an oni from the Indonesian Islands.
What all seemed good to be true turned out far more worse when her true motives came to the light. Together with the truth of her coming, even my destiny is about to change with her arrival. What will this chain do to us?
Shinsengumi Headquarters is where I was taken. Not only in Indonesia, no, whole Asia is at war. The west started their journeys to the east, to the countries with either rare species and spices or for new strategies. Their so called discovery journeys, turned out be an excuse to steal all the money and power from the country. This is also what happened in my homeland, the native people are used as slaves. We demons are butchered like mad dogs. It appeared that only he could see through it all. The journey starts all with a 'peaceful' partnership between two countries, with many mysteries between two countries. Until the harvest is no more, gone and a total war is inevitable. The real warriors are dying, one by one, while we once powerful, feared by man, oni, are butchered, killed only because we differ from the humans.
What is happening to the world we are living? One arrival is the trigger for another happening, the arrival of the west in the east was the trigger for end, destruction and war.
Humans are forgetting their ancestors, us demons. Thinking they can live peacefully by letting the west in. Bullshit. When miracles happen they treat us like gods and when things turned ugly for them they treat us like trash and horrible creatures. Our lives ended up being dependant on the ones we used to feed. No matter for how long, there will always be war.
Or it is the era of demons ruling the lands once more.
However I would never thought that this group of men could mend something, I thought I had lost for more than a hundred years. A heart.
I swore to myself, that fateful day, I would never let someone in, for I knew it would all turn into sorrow and sadness.
Then why can he break my defense so easily?
Follow our story. Through the eyes of two female oni, see what cannot be seen. Follow us on our journey as we travel between the demon world and the human world, as we travel towards a new life and love. This is the beginning of the…
…Demonic Chains…