Mayu continued walking. The look in her eyes was not a friendly one. It was not her usually shy look, this look was filled with hate and anger. Anger for Sae.
She continued down to the Osaka house. Nothing was going to stop her. Nothing was going to get away. Cracking her knuckles, she banged on the door, eventually getting frustrated and kicking the door out of its place, crashing to the floor.
Stepping into the small entry she made her way into the house. Sticking close to the wall, she opened the door and slipped inside. Moving from her cover behind the curtains, she walked over to the box in the connecting room. Opening the rectangle kimono box, she stuck in her hand. Before she reached her prize, however, something grabbed her hand.
Pulling it back, she raised the camera to her face and aimed.
Just what I needed. Something to get in my way.
Mayu watched the meter around the capture circle, waiting for it to completely color. She backed away every so often, making sure she and the mysterious ghost were a decent distance away.
She backed away more, she was getting worried, the meter was taking too long to charge and it looked like her opponent was going to strike. Thump, she hit the wall. Pressing herself against it, futilely attempting to put more distance between them. The woman raised her head a bit and the meter glowed a bright red.
Now or never!
She pressed down on the shutter button hard. Watching the woman in front of her recoil from the blast, Mayu ran past her and took her aim again. While the woman was paralyzed, she would have plenty of time for the camera to load the next picture and for the meter to increase by a significant amount.
She didnt blink. Knowing that doing so would cause her to lose focus as well as her target. It was almost there, Mayu was tensing up. The finger above the shutter started to twitch. She wanted to take this last shot. She just had to wait for the woman to get close enough...
Now!
She pressed on the trigger hard, accidently activating the knock back ability attached the lense. The woman hit the floor, shimmering for a moment, then disappeared.
Turning around satisfied, Mayu reached her hand back into the box to fetch her prize. Smiling, she walked out of the room and back into the main area.
The item she had obtained, her prize, was a piece of a mirror. The mirror had been left behind somehow, some way. All Mayu knew about it was it could contain and suppress the Malice within living beings and places. Probably how the village was able to hold The Abyss off, despite the occasional lack of sacrifices.
There were four pieces of the mirror, all inside the Osaka house. Itsuki had intentionally left them there a long time ago.
The four pieces each had something carved into them, a symbol. One for life, the other for death, another for love, and finally, one for butterfly.
If one looked into the meaning carefully, they would know the meaning. The villagers who knew of the mirror and its location thought it to mean "The butterfly loves during life and death" however, the symbols had been carved in the wrong places, and though effective on holding back the malice, the improper location of the symbols caused the mirror to shatter after Sae was sacrificed.
Mayu walked to the fireplace room and picked up another piece, inside of the fireplace. She dusted off the ashes, wincing when she felt the edge of the mirror slice her finger open. Pausing for a second, she walked down from the small platform and walked through the hallway.
Arriving at the end, she walked into the cold room, a large draft coming from the deck. Approaching the brazier, she picked up the mirror shard, turning around unaware to the two figures who had appeared behind her and were slowly walking toward her.
Mayu opened the door and patiently walked down the hall. She wasnt very alarmed, or aware or anything dangerous.
Upon making the turn to go back into the main room, she let out a scream. One of the ghosts had slashed his sickle at her, which normally would have caused a large gash down in her back. Crouching down, she waited before the monster had its scythe raised over its head before dashing off, stumbling a bit, but not impaired as she ran across the room and up the stairs, opening the door and slamming it shut.
Quickly searching through her pockets, she found a small brown wooden cylinder. She opened the container and tossed the contents into her mouth quickly, swallowing despite the lack of water. She sighed, relieved. Tossing the Herbal Medicine container to the floor, she walked left, then north. This was the room she and her sister encountered the poor woman who had entered the village looking for her boyfriend.
Quickly picking up her prize, she ran out of the room, looking left and right quickly to find no sign of the ghosts. Running down the stairs, she rushed out of the house as fast as she could. Heading to Itsukis former "home" when she came colliding into her sister.
Im sorry the chapter took so long, but I had some serious writers block. But Ive finally recovered. Please review and tell me what you think.