Chapter 3
The Acid Ecclesiastic, Arishima Chikao
Chikao glanced at the blacked out Yoshinobu. He seemed to be waking up from his deep slumber.
"Wha?! Where's Kanzaburo?! That bastard! I'll kill him!" he shouted.
Chikao put his arm up to Yoshinobu's face. "It was Kanzaburo's wishes that I fight you instead. Kanzaburo went off to fight that girl you saw earlier."
"Who the hell..." Yoshinobu said before he was interrupted.
"I am apologetic, but I must engage very soon." he said as he punched Yoshinobu. Nevertheless, Yoshinobu felt nothing.
He said to Chikao, "Are you fer real, man? That didn't hurt me at all!" He summarily socked Chikao in the face. Blood was gushing all over Chikao's visage.
Yoshinobu was staggered that one of Kanzaburo's acquaintances was easily bleeding.
Chikao had a grin in the corner of his mouth. Yoshinobu suddenly felt his skin melting.
"My blood is very acidic. It's even more acidic than digestive juices. I can also do this!" He take the stream of blood that was gushing down his face and started to shape it into a whip-like form. He flogged his new whip at Yoshinobu's torso making it bleed further. His abdomen's blood also combined with Chikao's blood whip to make it even bigger. Yoshinobu looked into his hood. He could see heartrending cyan eyes staring at him.
"What is wrong with you? There's obviously something going on that makes you sad. What is it?" Yoshinobu asked.
"It is nothing essential to you!" he said.
"Take off your cloak, Chikao. I do not understand why you conceal yourselves! Maybe I know you just like I knew Benjiro. I do not care!" Yoshinobu instructed.
Chikao slowly took off his cloak. Underneath it was a short cyan-haired man that matched his eyes. He had the outfit that looked like a priest's. However, on his back was a large wooden cross with blood covering most of it.
"I was given this cursed poison blood. I don't know who it was that gave it to me. I can assure you it was way stronger than Kanzaburo though. He put a hole in my back. Kanzaburo saved my life by giving me the Poison Sutra, a rare sutra that could lock away the millstone of poison. I was immune to my blood, but others weren't and so I used it as a weapon. Since Kanzaburo saved me, I voluntarily followed him. Since then, I've been a powerful ally to him. We even became friends. However, I could've died! And I will get revenge on the one who gave me this poisonous blood. But I must first get your sol, Kaki," he told Yoshinobu. "This cross was a large bandage to help keep me from excessive bleeding. It works quite well, actually. If I removed it, I would surely die. I found this cross while trekking through the barren region. I believe that Kaki could defeat the one who struck me."
Suddenly, he flayed his scarlet cord at Yoshinobu. Even more blood came out of Yoshinobu and fused with his whip. Chikao held his hand out and healed Yoshinobu.
"Chikao, that came out of nowhere!" Yoshinobu exclaimed.
"I will avenge my poor blood! You will see!" He said as he lashed at Yoshinobu again, making blood excessively flow into his whip. Chikao healed him again.
"You're getting nowhere, Chikao. Why hurt and then heal, you piece of shit!" Yoshinobu said.
Chikao ignored him and whipped him once again and once again making blood come out. Before it could fuse with Chikao's scarlet whip, it grew large and began to form into a large salamander-like creature. Yoshinobu did not seem to be causing this, because he was unconscious at the time. The bleeding salamander seemed to rip the golden school house and the green clouds apart along with everything surrounding it. The ground began to splinter apart. The salamander began to sprout wings.
Chikao then remembered what Kanzaburo previously said. "The body has three spirits each, a celestial spirit, a secular spirit, and a demonic spirit. Considering the preceding environment, Earth, celestial and demonic spirits cannot easily take over the person's body."
It was perceptible that the gargantuan salamander in front of him was Kaki's demonic spirit. But could he survive against it? Could anyone for that matter?
The salamander slashed his arm at Chikao, knocking him to the ground. Chikao's body was streaming with blood, but he used it to make his whip even stronger. However, he lost so much blood he was too weak to hold the mammoth whip.
He held a scroll in front of his chest.
"This is the last one I've got. Scroll of Liberation, heal me so that I may defeat this brute of blood." Immediately, all of his wombs were healed. All of the text on the scroll disappeared.
"Maybe I can beat you, beast of burden!" he said with buoyancy in his eyes.
He pulled out the large whip and smashed it threw his body, cutting him in half. The beast self-recovered itself. It hacked into Chikao's tissue. Yet again, more blood strengthened his whip, but weakened him. The beast then shot a fireball ate Chikao causing more blood than normal to flow out of Chikao.
Chikao, knowing he would die, pulled the cross off of his back, making a river of blood gush out of his back. He used the last of his chi to give Yoshinobu the energy to stand up. Yoshinobu noticed he was okay again. Kaki snarled at Yoshinobu.
"Holy fuck! What is that thing?! It killed Chikao!" Yoshinobu cried out.
"T... take this... it will destroy that thing. Please... t... tell Kanzaburo I am sorry he had to waste a rare item over me. Uh..." he had said with his final inhalation.
Yoshinobu had never essentially felt regretful about anyone's death until now. He mourned over Chikao's death, but took his scarlet whip. It was way too substantial for him to carry it.
Then Yoshinobu saw a recognizable cloak, Kanzaburo's. And he brought the other cloaks with him.
"Yoshinobu, what happened to Chikao?"
"It is too late for him! I will explain later! I cannot carry this whip! I need you to!" Yoshinobu said.
Kanzaburo said to the other two cloaks, "I want you two to fend this thing while we discuss this matter!" Kanzaburo shouted. "Okay. I do have a better idea on this. I want you to take this Poison Sutra and then rub Chikao's blood on you as if it were ointment. This will make you transform into a poisonous human, but you will still be able to control your actions. I'm going to attack now!"
Kanzaburo began to strike the salamander with the Ichiken enormously fleet alacrity. When the sword hit Kaki, the number on the gage began to change to 72. When it changed, a black hole came out of nowhere and sucked the sol into it.
"What is happening?" Yoshinobu asked.
"It's Ichiken's special power, the Indiscriminate Kismet. It's a random punishment for any creature hit by Ichiken when it's shell is not on it," Kanzaburo answered.
Kanzaburo fell on his face. He had fought Shinobu and Yoshinobu's other sol. What could possibly happen next?
Yoshinobu told Kanzaburo, "Chikao, he said you wasted a Poison Sutra on him. He said that he was remorseful you did."
Kanzaburo perceptibly didn't want Yoshinobu talking about his friend's death. Benjiro wanted to die. Chikao, however, was a different story. He supported him through thick and thin while Benjiro only met him from time to time. After all, his heavenly form and earthly form substituted manifold times. He had to go through school and live his normal life most of the time. Chikao was there all of the time, supporting him.
Kanzaburo cracked a joke, "That's right! I wasted a Poison Sutra on you! You didn't even start to rub the blood whip on you!"
Yoshinobu answered, "You went so fast though! I'm a human, unlike you!"
"You've got a point! I will crop you off at Earth. It's obvious we've done nothing but harm to you AND ourselves," Kanzaburo said in a sad voice.
Kanzaburo held his rapier to the atmosphere and said, "Return Yoshinobu to his world."
Yoshinobu noticed his body was beginning to disintegrate.
"Wait! What the fuck is going on here?" Yoshinobu asked.
The clouds and surrounding environment slowly changed to normal. Yoshinobu was back at the school, except it was nighttime.
Yoshinobu leisurely walked home, fairly skeptical about the events that went on. However, he looked at the full moon and knew that he came to the school in the morning. He reflected on the things he had freshly been through. Benjiro's angelic form appearing before his eyes. Kanzaburo slashing him with his sword. Chikao fighting him. Chikao talking about Kanzaburo's sympathy. Chikao dying. Kanzaburo weeping over his friend's dead body. Perhaps, in the big picture, there is no such thing as good and evil. Perchance, everyone has their motivation. But someday, he knew he may be in the afterlife. He now knew the body had many occupants.
Is this truly the end of Yoshinobu's journey? Now why would that be? The Tome of Idols 3 chapters? You must be kidding me?
The next chapter of the Tome of Idols, "Eijiro, Yoshinobu's Fighting Guru."
The Acid Ecclesiastic, Arishima Chikao
Chikao glanced at the blacked out Yoshinobu. He seemed to be waking up from his deep slumber.
"Wha?! Where's Kanzaburo?! That bastard! I'll kill him!" he shouted.
Chikao put his arm up to Yoshinobu's face. "It was Kanzaburo's wishes that I fight you instead. Kanzaburo went off to fight that girl you saw earlier."
"Who the hell..." Yoshinobu said before he was interrupted.
"I am apologetic, but I must engage very soon." he said as he punched Yoshinobu. Nevertheless, Yoshinobu felt nothing.
He said to Chikao, "Are you fer real, man? That didn't hurt me at all!" He summarily socked Chikao in the face. Blood was gushing all over Chikao's visage.
Yoshinobu was staggered that one of Kanzaburo's acquaintances was easily bleeding.
Chikao had a grin in the corner of his mouth. Yoshinobu suddenly felt his skin melting.
"My blood is very acidic. It's even more acidic than digestive juices. I can also do this!" He take the stream of blood that was gushing down his face and started to shape it into a whip-like form. He flogged his new whip at Yoshinobu's torso making it bleed further. His abdomen's blood also combined with Chikao's blood whip to make it even bigger. Yoshinobu looked into his hood. He could see heartrending cyan eyes staring at him.
"What is wrong with you? There's obviously something going on that makes you sad. What is it?" Yoshinobu asked.
"It is nothing essential to you!" he said.
"Take off your cloak, Chikao. I do not understand why you conceal yourselves! Maybe I know you just like I knew Benjiro. I do not care!" Yoshinobu instructed.
Chikao slowly took off his cloak. Underneath it was a short cyan-haired man that matched his eyes. He had the outfit that looked like a priest's. However, on his back was a large wooden cross with blood covering most of it.
"I was given this cursed poison blood. I don't know who it was that gave it to me. I can assure you it was way stronger than Kanzaburo though. He put a hole in my back. Kanzaburo saved my life by giving me the Poison Sutra, a rare sutra that could lock away the millstone of poison. I was immune to my blood, but others weren't and so I used it as a weapon. Since Kanzaburo saved me, I voluntarily followed him. Since then, I've been a powerful ally to him. We even became friends. However, I could've died! And I will get revenge on the one who gave me this poisonous blood. But I must first get your sol, Kaki," he told Yoshinobu. "This cross was a large bandage to help keep me from excessive bleeding. It works quite well, actually. If I removed it, I would surely die. I found this cross while trekking through the barren region. I believe that Kaki could defeat the one who struck me."
Suddenly, he flayed his scarlet cord at Yoshinobu. Even more blood came out of Yoshinobu and fused with his whip. Chikao held his hand out and healed Yoshinobu.
"Chikao, that came out of nowhere!" Yoshinobu exclaimed.
"I will avenge my poor blood! You will see!" He said as he lashed at Yoshinobu again, making blood excessively flow into his whip. Chikao healed him again.
"You're getting nowhere, Chikao. Why hurt and then heal, you piece of shit!" Yoshinobu said.
Chikao ignored him and whipped him once again and once again making blood come out. Before it could fuse with Chikao's scarlet whip, it grew large and began to form into a large salamander-like creature. Yoshinobu did not seem to be causing this, because he was unconscious at the time. The bleeding salamander seemed to rip the golden school house and the green clouds apart along with everything surrounding it. The ground began to splinter apart. The salamander began to sprout wings.
Chikao then remembered what Kanzaburo previously said. "The body has three spirits each, a celestial spirit, a secular spirit, and a demonic spirit. Considering the preceding environment, Earth, celestial and demonic spirits cannot easily take over the person's body."
It was perceptible that the gargantuan salamander in front of him was Kaki's demonic spirit. But could he survive against it? Could anyone for that matter?
The salamander slashed his arm at Chikao, knocking him to the ground. Chikao's body was streaming with blood, but he used it to make his whip even stronger. However, he lost so much blood he was too weak to hold the mammoth whip.
He held a scroll in front of his chest.
"This is the last one I've got. Scroll of Liberation, heal me so that I may defeat this brute of blood." Immediately, all of his wombs were healed. All of the text on the scroll disappeared.
"Maybe I can beat you, beast of burden!" he said with buoyancy in his eyes.
He pulled out the large whip and smashed it threw his body, cutting him in half. The beast self-recovered itself. It hacked into Chikao's tissue. Yet again, more blood strengthened his whip, but weakened him. The beast then shot a fireball ate Chikao causing more blood than normal to flow out of Chikao.
Chikao, knowing he would die, pulled the cross off of his back, making a river of blood gush out of his back. He used the last of his chi to give Yoshinobu the energy to stand up. Yoshinobu noticed he was okay again. Kaki snarled at Yoshinobu.
"Holy fuck! What is that thing?! It killed Chikao!" Yoshinobu cried out.
"T... take this... it will destroy that thing. Please... t... tell Kanzaburo I am sorry he had to waste a rare item over me. Uh..." he had said with his final inhalation.
Yoshinobu had never essentially felt regretful about anyone's death until now. He mourned over Chikao's death, but took his scarlet whip. It was way too substantial for him to carry it.
Then Yoshinobu saw a recognizable cloak, Kanzaburo's. And he brought the other cloaks with him.
"Yoshinobu, what happened to Chikao?"
"It is too late for him! I will explain later! I cannot carry this whip! I need you to!" Yoshinobu said.
Kanzaburo said to the other two cloaks, "I want you two to fend this thing while we discuss this matter!" Kanzaburo shouted. "Okay. I do have a better idea on this. I want you to take this Poison Sutra and then rub Chikao's blood on you as if it were ointment. This will make you transform into a poisonous human, but you will still be able to control your actions. I'm going to attack now!"
Kanzaburo began to strike the salamander with the Ichiken enormously fleet alacrity. When the sword hit Kaki, the number on the gage began to change to 72. When it changed, a black hole came out of nowhere and sucked the sol into it.
"What is happening?" Yoshinobu asked.
"It's Ichiken's special power, the Indiscriminate Kismet. It's a random punishment for any creature hit by Ichiken when it's shell is not on it," Kanzaburo answered.
Kanzaburo fell on his face. He had fought Shinobu and Yoshinobu's other sol. What could possibly happen next?
Yoshinobu told Kanzaburo, "Chikao, he said you wasted a Poison Sutra on him. He said that he was remorseful you did."
Kanzaburo perceptibly didn't want Yoshinobu talking about his friend's death. Benjiro wanted to die. Chikao, however, was a different story. He supported him through thick and thin while Benjiro only met him from time to time. After all, his heavenly form and earthly form substituted manifold times. He had to go through school and live his normal life most of the time. Chikao was there all of the time, supporting him.
Kanzaburo cracked a joke, "That's right! I wasted a Poison Sutra on you! You didn't even start to rub the blood whip on you!"
Yoshinobu answered, "You went so fast though! I'm a human, unlike you!"
"You've got a point! I will crop you off at Earth. It's obvious we've done nothing but harm to you AND ourselves," Kanzaburo said in a sad voice.
Kanzaburo held his rapier to the atmosphere and said, "Return Yoshinobu to his world."
Yoshinobu noticed his body was beginning to disintegrate.
"Wait! What the fuck is going on here?" Yoshinobu asked.
The clouds and surrounding environment slowly changed to normal. Yoshinobu was back at the school, except it was nighttime.
Yoshinobu leisurely walked home, fairly skeptical about the events that went on. However, he looked at the full moon and knew that he came to the school in the morning. He reflected on the things he had freshly been through. Benjiro's angelic form appearing before his eyes. Kanzaburo slashing him with his sword. Chikao fighting him. Chikao talking about Kanzaburo's sympathy. Chikao dying. Kanzaburo weeping over his friend's dead body. Perhaps, in the big picture, there is no such thing as good and evil. Perchance, everyone has their motivation. But someday, he knew he may be in the afterlife. He now knew the body had many occupants.
Is this truly the end of Yoshinobu's journey? Now why would that be? The Tome of Idols 3 chapters? You must be kidding me?
The next chapter of the Tome of Idols, "Eijiro, Yoshinobu's Fighting Guru."