IV Of how Mati Ramachandra became Maria Hearn and at last Yukari Yakumo.
After Hiranyakashipu a far cousin of Hecatia Lapislazuli decided to restart the same plan following the same guidelines. This time he became a devotee much like Hecatia and when his penitence was to be rewarded he asked for the same thing, though this time he asked not to be killed by the same thing that killed the last Ashura emperor, though he forgot to ask to be killed by a human in all his wish making. Brahma realized what mistake he had done but still rewarded this new enemy since he was a god who kept his word.
The story of how this new Ashura who decided to rebel again, Ravanna is quite known. Vishnu reincarnated again this time in his strongest form. A simple human as one may think but humans have the ability to reach new limits each time. This ability made Rama so powerful that he was often confused with a Rudra (destroyer god), though he had always been an Adyita (protector god).
Ravanna was way more proficient at war and made it hard for Rama to take him down, but eventually his cold temper and sheer power made it possible. The story was quite long and it is not what we are trying to analyze here. It is quite known that Rama married a girl Sita who was born fluctuation, a human whose mind is capable of controlling certain things. Sita had the ability to control borders in a small scale. She was beautiful which caused many to ask for her hand in marriage, but her fear of being judged caused the rejection of those many marriages. Rama being an oddity himself showed a possible consort for her, and he accepted her knowing that they two would be happy together.
They had a daughter which they named Mati, a gift from god, and she later on accepted the surname Ramachandra which was the full name of her father. She inherited the ability of the mother, along with the sheer strength of the father which made a very strange being. She could control not only borders but boundaries, to move limits at will, break them and put them too. She was indeed the epitome of a protector which pleased much the father since his time was counted in earth. After ten thousand years Rama finally passed away, leaving his role as a demon slayer to a certain major goddess. Mati decided to keep living in India until it started to be out-shined by western powers.
Seeing that helping in India would only cause chaos she decided to go to England where help seemed more appropriate and change things from there, though she later on realized that there were bigger problems than human invasions. In England she realized that supernatural beings were turning rarer every time. The old terrors vampires were afraid to go out even at night, they lived underground feeding themselves from rats which did not defend themselves.
She kept on living there for a few years aiding monsters in need, Maria Hearn was her new name, she always took on a different name easier for the locals to pronounce it easily. As the time went on she realized that monsters were disappearing, some of them leaving the country after hearing of an utopia for them. It did not take long until Maria heard about this, she wanted to go and see what this new land was like. If it was a trap from humans she would come back and tell the monsters in Europe about it, if not things were already going well for them.
The trip did not take long for her since she was capable of controlling boundaries. The issue was knowing where this new land was located, in Japan their monsters were even rarer, apparently they had already left for that place. "Youkai" as they were called had been either hunted down or escaped for other places. Maria was a bit disappointed to see that this land probably was never reached by many European monsters.
She looked in the forests where local legends were common, but usually they were just frauds the locals did to scare off foreigners. Until one day Maria found a youkai fox, she was six hundred years old, and as expected had five tails on her back. Foxes were known to be smart and well behaved, she asked for money in exchange of being guided to the youkai land. She was asked to be payed in advance and so Maria did it so trusting the fame of Japanese fox youkai. However after three days she realized they were walking in circles.
Ran was waiting for Maria to get bored and leave giving up the idea of finding a youkai land. The fox knew as much as she did about the location of that place. In fact Ran's appearance made it obvious that she was struggling. As a youkai she was hated by people too, now they had started to stop giving offerings to youkai and humans were harder to kill for food as well. Ran was a good spirit but desperation got the worst out of her.
Maria was not angry at all, she instead offered food and clothing for Ran and they both agreed to look for the youkai land they both wanted to find. It was easier to ask for information now with Ran's shape shifting. As it seemed there was a land that every human feared, the locals near there talked about a crow lord who always asked for tribute. Youkai gathered around that place feeling safe for a conjunction of two different things, the isolated mountain where the crow lord lived and a mad hermit who protected youkai over humans.