Onmyou Oni
Twist 2 – Their nights
Opening theme: Bonds Kizuna by Antic Café
- Very well, I'll explain about that creature you met last night.
- Nnnn... You don't have to, sensei. Tonight I just want to go home and lay down on my bed.
- Quiet! Listen up what I have to say! After this your understanding of the world will change forever. Many facts, that might seem unexplainable, are doings of creatures like the one you saw.
- I can see that you're gonna tell me that they're mystical entities who control mankind's destiny and all that blabbering about gods and demons.
- Hm? – says Shinsei's master, a little suprised.
- You must know already. Gods, Demons, predestination. I don't believe that bullshit, if they put someone calling himself God before me, I'll just prove the opposite.
Before he could go on, Shinsei gets kicked by his master.
- You idiot! You think I don't know my student? Of course it's about Gods and Demons! In this world the only one to control your actions is your own self! What I have to tell you isn't related to controling destinies. Vut with a massive data manipulation.
- Manipulation?
- Yeah. That OZ is an organization that makes the underground work, while the military take care of manipulating the informations. "Terrorist attacks", "Gang fight", "stray bullets" and many other kinds of incidents that happen are caused by, as they call, Onis.
- Oni? Those horned beasts of japanese folklore?
- Almost. Actually they don't really care about the name, at the beggining theys just called them "monsters", but some time ago, a witness came to the midia. It was a japanese man, he claimed to have seen an "oni" tweaking in the trash, after it attacked someone. At that time people just laughed at him, since the police had already said it was a gang who did it, but it seems like the organization liked that denomination ant started using it. Well, actually it must be the current president's doing who, in my opinin, is a retarded. Looking this way, you two might get along very well.
- What? If I seem like a retarded it's just because a certain someone, in addition to insist in hitting my head, he still missteatches everything! – Shinsei gets kicked again for saying so.
- Whatever. What you had to know was more or less that. About the onis, there isn't much to talk. Vampires, ogres, elfs, pixies, demons, angels, whatever magic creature you can name are oni.
- Oh, like... You hair? – Shinsei dodges a third kick – Hah! You didn't get me this... – Then he gets hit in the belly.
Shinsei's master snaps his tongue and tell him he would stop training him as a commoner. After having seen an oni and getting invited to OZ, he would need skills that people would consider superhuman.
- Like what? You'll teach me how to fly?
- Who you think you are? Superman? To fly you have to be aerodynamic. With that huge head of yours you aren't a bit!
- Wanna die, punk?
- Heh. I see you're pretty heated up. That's good, 'cause your trainings 'till now were just a joke.
Even thought Shinsei trained to death he still said those trainings were a joke. But as he doubted, his master challenged him to fight, so he could show up the limitations of Shinsei's strenght in the new world he came.
A little earlier, Eiji and Kotaro Yamada had just arrived, when they find everything shrouded in the darkness, except for some candles that were lined up to the back of the house, where they have a shrine. Eiji wonders if their parents have forgotten to pay the bills, but quickly finds out he's wrong as Kojiro light up a lamp. But, if they had power, what were those candles for? It could make the house to get on fire. So the brothers decide to blow out the candles. When they arrive on the backyard, their mother welcome them. She was wearing cerimonial clothes.
- Sorry mom! The event is over, It's useless to use this cosplay!
- Baka! – Says their mother, hitting Eiji's head with a bell. – You father awaits you inside the shrine.
They question the reason why they were expected, but she only says to ask their father. They get inside the shrine, which was pitch black inside. As they pass through the door it closes and, instantly, the room lights up. Many candles light up, simultaneously. But, the brothers don't have time to get impresses, because the light reveals five grotesque creatures that stare and rush at them.
- Woah! Get off!
- Gaaah! Help!
Even thought they screamed things like that, both defend themselves and manage to defeat the five creatures, with a little effort. After the fifth oni falls, the guys' father comes from the ceiling, where he was hidden. He confesses being the one who released the oni in the shrine. Eiji asks why he was raising such things, but his father tells him he captured them that day, just so he could test them and if they couldn't fight them back they would have died. As he notices that his children were kinda pissed, he tells them he would save their asses as a hero. Even saying so, he had no doubts they would be successfull, since they had received a certain letter.
Then, Mr Yamada shows two sealed packages, just like Shinsei's. He hands over the packages to them. It was the very same letter shinsei received and Eiji and Kijiro ask together if that was fake or some kind of joke. But they soon get remembered of the wonds they got on the fight. They had seen and felt. There was no way they could doubt. Eiji asks if his father already knew "OZ".
- Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have made all this without even reading your letters!
- So, you would read if you didn't know? – Both, Eiji and Kojiro, ask together.
- Basically, what you have to know is that there are no gods, ghosts, ghouls, youkai, etc. All that is resumed in one word: oni! Of courese, this is just the name thay have officially given, but whatever name is ok.
- Is that all we've got to know? Ok, then we're going up to our beds.
- Wait! – says mister Yamada, changing his tone. – You really thought I was make up all this scenery, just to say that? Be aware that tomorrow this kind of oni you had so much trouble to fight will be small fry.
- What do you mean?
- I mean tonight me and your mother will train you to purify this world from the oni! Since you two like those animes, you must know a lot of names for this training. "Ki", "spiritual power", "sohma", "cosmos", "spirit strenght", "magic power", among others. Basically the idea is, besides powering up, learn how to bolt from your bodues this energy that exists inside of you, so you can use it to attack, defend, cure, do whatever is needed. Unfortunatelly, the procedure is kinda drastic, but you can take it.
- WHAT? – and their scream echoes through the night
In Kamo Maeda's house, everything seemed peacefull. He was parked his car and was going up on the elevator, when the janitor tells him he had a sealed package on the lobby. Kamo goes to get the package and receives the same one as his friends. He opens up and reads while waiting for the elevator. As the door opens, he accidentally shoves his head on a girl's boobs. She was around 1.80m tall, had black smooth and short hair, was wearing sunglasses and carried some kind of training stuff.
Kamo apologizes, but the lady was pissed off and called him a pervert as she hit him with her heavy purse. He eventually trips off and falls, knocking all his stuff over the floor. The girl notices the letter and takes it. Kamo states that reading other people's correspondence is a crime, but she ignores him and asks him if he did take part on a strange event the night before. Kamo, unaware of the reason of the question replies that he was on a anime event. Again she asks, but Kamo just starts talking about some weird sushi he had. Finally, impacient, she yells asking if he saw an oni. As she yelled such a weird thing, everyone around start to stare at them. She gets really red and apologizes. Then Kamo answers that all he saw was common people and common animals. But she states he would never receive such a letter if he hadn't met an oni and wonders which was the weirdest animal he saw the day before, aside from himself on the mirror. He gets kinda angry, but says that the only weird things he saw was his friends and a cat of 1.60m The girl gets really surprised that he put his friends before a 1.60m cat.
- Then, you met an oni. Ok! You'll come with me. OZ isn't very trustable.
- Huh? I have to go home and...
- You are coming with ME! – The stare she gives him makes Kamo think it's better to follow her.
She takes him to her car and makes him get in. During the route, she doesn't speak a word, only keeps muttering something about OZ.. Kamo wonders where were they heading to, he never went to that part of the city. It was a quiet neighborhood. It didn't seem dangerous, but it didn't have much traffic too. There were some people walking around, it was really calm neighborhod.
They finally arrive, Kamo questions if it's some kind of nightclub, only to piss the girl off. She says that that is the place where he would be receiving the appropriate training for the meeting with OZ, even though he wasn't even considering to attend, it was more than obvious that it was a prank. But she seriously states that if anyone were to play with OZ's name, would surelly become chased by the government, specially because the package had the OZ pattern all aroung, the signature, the seal, everything.
- Oh, but I don't even know what that OZ is. I've never seen it on the news, internet, nothing. So I wasn't going to attend to that meeting anyway.
- You can be sure that if you didn't attend they would go for you.
- Oh yeah. – he says sarcastically.
- Come on! If OZ sent you a letter, the old man knows for sure!
- What? It isn't you who's gonna give me training?
- No way! I still don't have enough experience to train someone. – She says as she opened the door of one of the houses, somewhat modest.
The house itself was normal, except for some eccentric furniture, but who doesn't have one or another? The girl guided him to the back of the house. If the house seemed common, that was just the first impression, on the back of the house there was some kind of gym. Lots of practice gears were around like weights, poles, wooden swords and lots of other training weaponry.
- Oshou-sama! I'm here! – She yells
An old man is sitting on the floor before them. He was seemingly expecting the girl's arrival. He stares at the newcomers and smiles.
- I see you broght a friend, Karen.
- Oh, but he's not exactly my friend. I just found out that he received a letter from OZ.
- OZ? So he's probably one of the boys who got attacked by funjata.
- Funjata? W-wait! How come he's still alive? Funjata would never be beaten by common people, eve if they were a group of fifty!
- C'mon! I'm sure your guest usn't quite common. OZ got an eye on him after all. I would like to meet the other three, but I'm sure Aoyama and The Yamadas, Kensuke and Nobuko, will do a great job on them.
- A-aoyama? You mean Max? That rude you always call a clueless?
- Exactly!
- Danm! I would rather have met the one who's gonna be trained by him, not that one.
- "That one" has a name.
- Oh yes, my boy, introduce yourself.
- Introduce? What do you mean? I was dragged here and still have to introduce myself?
The old man laughs and apologizes. He was curious about the guy who was able to hurt funjata even though he never received any training. But how did he know that Kamo never had training? Well, he knew the Yamadas and even though he never met the Max guy, he knew Shinsei who trained under his guidance,
- Yes, you could have received some training, but if you did, I would know.
- You would? How come?
- Your aura. Peoplethat get some kind of training, the slightest bit, have a stable aura. People who never met any kind of suitable training have an unstable aura. That simple.
- Aura? Are you drunk?
- Stupid! Don't talk like that to Oshou-sama!
- Easy, Karen. He just doesn't have the sense to see an aura. But by tomorrow he'll surelly be able to control that big aura he has ohohoho! But well, let me introduce myself. They call me by the name of MIIIIIIIIIYAMOTOOOOOO MUUUSAAAAAASHIIII!
- ARE YOU DRUNK? – Both Karen and Kamo yell together.
- You're mean, you know? It was a joke! My name is Kazuya Muramasa. The girl who brought you here is Karen Musashiro. Very well, now tell us your name, young one.
- Oh well, I'm Serizawa Kamo!
- Are you dumb? Using other people's pranks.
- WHUT? How could you tell?
- It's as obvious as the old man being Miyamoto Musashi! The only way it could be worse is if I said that I'm Sanada Yukimura, but he already said my name.
- Why are you calling me "old man" again, you supersized brat!
- Don't call me supersized brat, you perv geezer!
Kamo thinks the situation is getting awkward, but Kazuya notices it and assures that he would only leave that house skillfull or dead. Karen tells him not to scare the boy, but he says he's saying the truth. She is so sure that he will die in the process that it was better if he didn't even think on the possibility.
- WHAT? Soooooo, I think I'll be leaving, you know? I think I heard my mother calling...
- Boy! – Kazuya says with a smik in the face. – now you won't escape!
- FUUUUUUUCK!
All through the night, you could hear the desperate screams of four young boys who suffered with a horrible training routine. How was the training? You want to know? Are you some kind of saddistic? Oh well... Me tôo! But that we leave to the next chapter!
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Ending theme: Black Jack by Janne da Arc.