Chapter 36: Interlude: Onigumo
Koenma was at his wits end. The portal was still open. They could tell that it was because of the constant energy shifts in the space between the dimensions where the barrier was. Their only reassurance was that all signs pointed toward the barrier remaining intact. So while countless hordes of yōkai lower in power than B could be pouring into the human world, at least nothing stronger was getting though. Yet.
He had been spanked numerous times over the matter, but Koenma and his team still couldn't tell where. There was no suspicious increase in yōkai magic anywhere within their sensors, no humans were randomly gaining psychic abilities, there wasn't anything going on in the city the portal had originally opened in either. Ambient power was leaking out of the makai and as half of The Spirit World was serving as the makai… that was really, really bad. He was going to get blamed for everything. He just knew it.
"George, make sure that the SDF increases strength of the protective detail following Kuwabara Kazuma. They have my authorization to loosen their seals up to high B level if they must." Koenma rubs his temples and sucks furiously at his pacifier as Gorge scurries out of the office. And Itsuki vanishes from where he had been watching between dimensions.
Itsuki finds Shinobu watching Chapter Black yet again. It was a chronicle of every atrocity humans had inflicted on their fellow human beings, and as far as Itsuki was concerned, watching the video he had nicked from The Spirit World's archives once, was more than enough. He waits until Shinobu's favorite part was over, wondering just which of the alternate personalities was in control at the moment.
On the screen a bandit named Onigumo lay a burnt ruin as his raspy voice agrees to sell his body to a horde of yōkai in order to his greedy hands on the miko that was tending to him. The first yōkai touches him, and the scene changes, the bandit lost to the sands of time as the video plays.
Shinobu's Naru personality had told him once as they lay together after a night spent in passionate embrace, that she hoped that the reason nothing further was shown, was because there had been a happy ending, so much horror had been visited upon that man that in spite of his latter behavior, Naru still wanted him to have a happy ending. But Itsuki knew that the video only showed human crimes. Onigumo no longer qualified as human the moment the first yōkai crawled under his skin.