For the next two days Mitsuko travelled in the direction where Dodomeki suggested for her to travel. She kept up a brisk pace resting only when she needed to sleep. Eventually she reached the village that was suggested to her at least she hoped this was the right village. On the outside the village seemed to be doing quite well, some of the buildings were larger than average however unbeknownst to her that things were quite dire. The sun began to set over the horizon as she enters the village. She notices quite quickly that people only give her a quick glance before looking away. A part of her felt the rather disgusted and hateful glares from them as soon as she looked away. She clenched her scythe wielding hand quite hard as she didn't like experiencing these glares full of hatred and disgust especially when she didn't know why this was. As she strolls through the village she comes across one that was larger than the rest, she figured that would be a place to stay for the night so she enters. Inside she's met with a rather distasteful looking place. The place was an absolute mess, several chairs and benches were thrown about and had stayed there for quite a while. The wooden supports looked old and started to rot. Behind a rather worn down desk was an old man looking like he was in his late 40s and wore a small moustache. He looked happy to receive a customer when he heard the door open, however as he examined Mitsuko particularly her uniform and armour, his smile was replaced with a miserable frown. Mitsuko noticed this and wondered what his problem was? She walked to the worn out bench.

'Excuse me but is this a place where I can rest for the night?'

'It was until you people sucked our village dry.' He responded which shocked Mitsuko.

'I'm sorry what, you people?'

'Yeah you imperials, taxing us to no end while we're starving and ignoring our pleas!' He slams his fist on the bench and that was when Mitsuko realised she was still wearing her old imperial uniform and sighed. Now she understands why the village didn't like the look of her. She knew from her original time that around this time Dong Zhuo was taxing everyone and being a general tyrant, she didn't think that she would find herself in this situation being hated by some peasants in a near desolate village who harbour an ill will to anyone who work or in this case used to work for the emperor himself. Mitsuko sighed as she didn't want to deal with any hostility, the last two days she had to sleep outside in the cold, something she wasn't in the rush to do so again. She reached to her pouch of coins and threw it on the table much to the surprise of the senior man.

'Look I just want somewhere to stay for one night that's all ok? At the brink of dawn I'll be gone and you will never see me or any imperials again I promise that, all right?' She watched his thoughtful expressions carefully as he stroked his chin before nodding in agreement.

'Go down the hall, first room on the left.' He told her as he takes the pouch of coins. Mitsuko nods in understanding. She makes her way to the room she was told to go. When she entered it she saw that the room itself was completely empty, not even a bed or a window. It was so barren and worn down she couldn't help but wonder if this was on purpose. However she did say that anything would be better that being outside. She sighs as she drags herself to one of the corners and lies down. It took a while for her to close her eyes and fall asleep.

Roughly three hours later the sun completely set, the light in the sky was consumed by darkness lighted up by the various stars and the moon shining brightly. A young mystic covered in a black cloak and hood made his way into the village, his sword concealed aswell as his bright teal uniform. Not a single villager was in sight, this was perfect he could get in and out without being seen at all. He smirks underneath his hood, his thoughts go to his young partner who should've dealt with those two repulsive creatures. He walks into the building that Mitsuko is staying in and finds surprisingly no one available. He wonders why that is, he could've sworn that someone should be here. He's starting to get concerned but thinks that whoever is in charge is just sleeping. So he walks down the hall and enters through Mitsuko's door. He opens it very carefully to ensure it creaks as little as possible and pussyfoots his way across the room to see her lying in the corner grasping her scythe tightly. He smiles he puts his hood down and comes closer to her. He hears the door slams shut, he turns around and sees nothing, he shakes his head and smirks thinking that's just his partner messing around. He kneels down next to her and moves strands of hair away from her face to make sure its her. However he notices there is a small butterfly mark on her right cheek…must be some sort of ink he thinks to himself as he stands up. He unsheathes his sword that he concealed beneath his cloak, he grasps it with two hands and hovers the blade over her resting body.

'My apologies but this must be done for the good of everyone.' He whispers to her as suddenly he feels arms wrap around him making him drop his steel sword just in front of Mitsuko's face penetrating the worn out wooden floor leaving only the handle visible. One arm wraps around his mouth to stop him from speaking while the other wraps his arms together like a snake. The hands wear metal gauntlets. The arm wrapping his arms extends its hand to his neck and clutches it tightly feeling the sharp tips of the gauntlet start to penetrate his flesh. A dark laughter echoed in his ears.

'Did you really think this was going to be successful, mystic scum?' Dodomeki whispers the mystic tries to scream as loud as he can as the tips of the fingers slowly starts to break his skin, he struggles to escape the grasp of the demon but to no avail.

'I bet you're wondering how we found out about you? Well its simple you should blame your partner for not holding his end of the bargain and dying after he told us your schemes!'

'That stupid bastard!' The mystic thought to himself. His eyes open wide as Dodomeki tightens his grip around his throat to the point that blood is starting to escape, making it increasingly difficult each second to breathe.

'It was a good thing aswell otherwise she would've been dead and then what would we do? Even if you didn't come here the villagers here would've finished the job. I'm quite surprised that they would take out all their frustrations by murdering her even though she wasn't even a part of the problem. Pathetic insects should've knew their place before attempting to take her life over something that wasn't in her control. However I figured I would let her sleep but putting on a charm on her to make less likely to wake up After all we can't let her knowing about you yet right? She needs more strength first but make no doubt about it, if you mystics go after her she will slaughter you like cattle soon enough. Before then however you will not lay a single hand on my lady got it?' Dodomeki clutches his throat grabbing his windpipe and tearing it out completely. Dodomeki unravels his arms from the mystic as he drops backwards and crashes to the floor. It takes all of his strength to move his arm that was draining rapidly to cover his huge wound in a desperate attempt to not let the blood surround him in a puddle. He struggles in vain as Dodomeki kneels down and stares into his eyes with his soul piercing gaze. His blood stained gauntlet pierces the mystics stomach with a quick strike leaving him wanted to scream but nothing came out of mouth but more blood. The wound in his throat bubbled and gurgled as he attempted to scream in agony. Until eventually it stopped, his body turned limp as Dodomeki smiled dastardly behind his mask.

He grabbed the arm of the mystic and dragged the fresh corpse outside leaving a trail of blood behind it. He exits the building and drag the body deeper into the village where various bloodstains and blood trails began to appear and lead to a stable of some sorts. He opens the corpse and saw Gyuki patiently sitting behind a pile of corpses mainly of men including the old man that served Mitsuko earlier. He saw Gyuki's face light up with excitement as he open the doors.

'There he's now eliminated, you can now devour them.' He throws the fresh mystic corpse on top of the pile.

'Thanks I was starving!' Gyuki yells with happiness as he grabs the mystic corpse and began to eat it head first. The bones crunched like wafer from a bar of chocolate. Immediately after Gyuki bites the head off the body blood drips from his mouth and down his face. Dodomeki shakes his head in response.

'A sloppy eater as always I see.' He said to his companion who took no notice and continued his feast. Dodomeki stared at this sight for another ten seconds before he heard something from outside. He decides to investigate and tells Gyuki to keep eating. He exits the stable and the noise is louder and it sounds like…a baby crying? He walks nearer to the actual village and passed by one of the supposedly abandoned buildings where he hears the cry loudest. He opens the door and is surprised to see a young woman looking shocked and afraid covered in plain clothes as she cradles her child which still looked relatively new not more than a month old. He walks closer to her as she closes her eyes and holds her child closely to her chest as a last ditch attempt to protect it. He kneels down and asked a question.

'Were you part of the earlier…upset with the rest of the villagers?'

'N-no I was here tending to my boy when I heard the shouting when I finally put him to rest and he started to cry again. I-I tried to calm him down when I heard the screaming I held him tightly and hid here hoping y-you would pass.' She starts to tear up in fear as Dodomeki closes his giant eye.

'I see…'

'W-why did you have to kill them? What did they do to you?' She questions fearfully as Dodomeki stands up.

'If your child was in danger would you do anything you can to protect him? Including attempting to kill his attackers?' He questions.

'O-of course! I would do anything for him.' She speaks up in confidence.

'Then you should know that I have at least that much if not more devotion towards my lady, they were going to take her life when she couldn't defend herself I had to protect her…you understand that don't you?' The young woman nods partly in understand but partly with fear. To her surprise he started to walk away.

'If you truly were not a part of that mob then you present no threat to my lady, even now so she may have…reservations about ending you here so gather your supplies and leave immediately with your spawn. What you do then is up to you, see if you have the strength to survive.' He said as he starts to walk out he surprisingly hears a hesitated thank you from her which stopped him in his tracks for a moment aswell as silence filling the air for the first time since he entered the house.

'Tch don't thank me, I simply have no reason to kill you that's all you both are not worth the effort at this moment.' He replies as he walks out and headed towards the abandoned stables. He sees Gyuki sparing no time devouring the corpses, trying to fill his mouth as much as possible.

'No one's going to be taking them away Gyuki do slow down I'm not going to take care of you if anything happens to you.' Gyuki struggles to swallow the amount of flesh and bones in his mouth and let out a loud gasp of air before he spoke.

'Don't tell me what to do I'm still hungry! Oh by the way what was that noise?' He questions before he took another bite, tearing the corpse apart with his mouth like an animal.

'A feeble female human and her spawn were hiding in one of the homes.' Dodomeki answered as Gyuki looks around.

'Where are the bodies?'

'There aren't any, I let them go.' Gyuki was surprised by this statement.

'Are you sure that's a good idea? She could notify everyone about us.'

'Tch, even if she does they won't find anything of substantial value so they'll just think she's crazy. Besides she wasn't a part of the earlier mob I had to deal with and they don't present any threat to our lady so we have no reason to eliminate them. That and I'm sure she wouldn't like to hear we killed someone innocent…at least for the moment.'

'Yeah I guess you're right. Still I didn't expect you of all people to spare them. I think you're-'

'Finish that sentence and I'll be devouring your corpse!' Dodomeki interrupted which scared Gyuki.

'I-I was just going to say how frightening and intelligent you are of course.' Satisfied with his answer Dodomeki had a slight smile beneath his helmet before sitting down.

'Do you think there's any more of them in this realm that we don't know about?' Gyuki questions as he swallows the remains of another corpse.

'Most likely but I suspect they may not know about each other to help with their secrecy and infiltration, it would be troublesome for them if one was captured.'

'Then what are we going to do about them?'

'We keep an eye on her as we always do and be extra vigilant. We must make sure she doesn't come into contact with them, it'll leave her with questions and she must focus on her development not defending herself from mystics.'

'Ok but we will explain things to her eventually right? It doesn't seem fair to keep her in the dark.' Gyuki responds with concern present in his voice.

'Don't worry we'll tell her everything soon enough. Anyway keep eating the corpses must not be discovered.' Dodomeki orders.