Chapter 16
Meanwhile…
"I knew I was favored… he ALWAYS favored me… there just no denying it."
She was in her own little world, her hide away within the Aokigahara forest. Oyayubi was preparing something for her master. After all, he comes to her when she dreams at night. They all consist of Sukuna. She would say her little affirmation before going to bed, knowing tonight she would dream of him again.
But a few months ago, her dream drastically changed. After all, she controls what she wants to do within that dream, but last night, there was no control.
She remembered it vividly too. She was undressed and awaiting for him to take her as she always fantasized. Yet that night, as he stood before her. There was no look of lust or greed on his face, it was a rather disappointed sneer. "Get dressed," he ordered. "If this is how you wasted a thousand years when I would have used every second of it to get stronger than you are unfit to follow me!"
She knew that moment it was the master. Instantly she envisioned herself dressed, she prostrated towards him and pleaded for mercy. "Master… I only ever thought of you!" she decreed.
"Be silent" he growled and then paused. "What perpetrations have you made?"
She paused to the question. "Preparations master?"
The look of rage came over his face. "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU HAVE NOT PERPARED A SINGLE THING FOR THIS!" he roared. "There… is a perfectly good body for me to obtain, the fact that this fragment originated from ME would be perfect to take over… and you have done NOTHING!"
She froze.
He was right.
She has done nothing but waste her time. She allowed Paum and Chukan to fall at the hands of the demon vessel and the clone of her master, but has not followed up with anything else. After all, she didn't know how to go about doing it knowing how powerful they were! The demon vessel… Yuuji Itadori, possesses a dragon now, how does one fight against that?
"Forgive me master…" she said in a trembled voice.
"That will depend on what you do from this moment on. I WANT a new body. Don't offer the brat that has resisted and suppressed me. Get the one who has been cloned and came from my very essence. I despise having my power be used for such an unworthy and pathetic creature like that. And make this fast, I have a feeling that this moment will not last if it is not act upon."
She nodded to him. "What can I do master?"
He glared at her. "Get me my body… or next time I come to you in this state… you won't be dreaming any time soon. In fact, how would you like to fall asleep and never wake again?"
Since then, she hasn't slept.
Oyayubi was planning, forging and trying to make sense of what to do now, how to accomplish it and to please Sukuna. Yet she kept running into a dead end. She swallowed her pride and decided to take a chance. She called upon one of the others. It pained her to do such a thing, but at the moment, failure was no longer an option.
She sent a pulse of curse energy through invisible spider webs she has made throughout Japan. Other members of the fifth hand can only sense them, and to the destined one she intended to contact.
That message went out no more than a day ago. She was making perpetrations when she froze to the sensation. Someone had tripped her webbing, but she sensed no curse energy. "Is that you… Ryōte Kiki?"
A rather dominating figure entered her domain. She hasn't seen this one in a few hundred years and yet, there was something odd about him. "Not pleased to see me?" he asked curiously. "Then again, you were never pleased to see me, now were you?"
She sneered at him. "I have been given an oracle by the master."
He merely nodded to her as he reached behind himself and took out a simple bottle. "I know, for he came to me with the notion a few months ago. I had just perfected it myself," he said with a rather proud grin on his lips.
She glared at the bottle. "What's so special about it?" she demanded. Snatching it away, she opened the top and took a smell. "Sake?! This is nothing but sake!" she protested.
"Good, it got pass you too," he said proudly.
She had half a mind to smash the bottle but paused. "What do you mean?" she demanded.
He took the bottle back with great care. "You see, my dear, sweet little spider. This is the greatest chance of our master returning. I have taken his essence from various objects and managed to infuse it into the sake. With my curse ability, I have rendered it down to make it impossible to detect. This, all we have to do is get the vessel to take the first drink and the master will have his new body!"
She paused, Oyayubi was very skeptical to his claim. It wouldn't be possible to hide master's essence in such a primitive way!
"You speak utter nonsense." She muttered with her arms crossed. "Master is too strong to be contained and be undetected!"
Ryōte smirked to her. "It only goes to show how much more powerful I have grown since the last time we met. As well… how much you have been lacking. Master would be SO disappointed in you… judging by the bags under your eyes, I would say he made that very clear in your last vision…"
She froze.
"How did you…"
"I have them to, you are not special." His left demon eye peered to the corner of the domain. There, the mummified remains of the master rested and waited. "Be certain you tend to his former body. He said he will need it soon enough… Curious, I wonder what master intends on doing with it…"
"It's not leaving here!" she protested. "I FOUND it… I am KEEPING it here with me!"
He merely smirked. "I had no interest in removing master, besides, he is well taken care of I see…" Ryōte then waved her off. "This is all I am going to do for now until I have more information. I have been observing this… dragon vessel now. The elders are a little on edge about him… curious still, I wonder why they have yet to rid themselves of this Yuuji Itadori..."
She paused to his decree, but he was already gone.
Oyayubi sneered at him. The rumors must be true. Sukuna did favor one member of the fifth hand… and it was Ryōte Kiki.
