Chapter 52 A Philosophy of Blood
Wei had lost his leviathan. He didn't particularly care. While he would have preferred to keep it as a trophy, it had served its intended purpose: it had bought him the time to complete the summoning and provided the distraction he needed to kidnap Kagome.
He was however, more than fed up with these wolf youkai. Particularly the blue eyed one who had tackled him into the mountainside and was now twisting his arms behind his back and pulling upwards in an attempt to tear them out of their sockets.
"Kouga isn't it?" Wei asked nonchalantly, while simply dislocating his shoulders and rotating the arms around. "This body was made to take on Sesshoumaru and in fact killed you earlier, so don't think you can compete with me."
Delivering a swift elbow to Kouga's stomach, Wei knocked him back, swiftly reversed their positions now with Kouga pressed against the wall and his muscles screaming as his arms were forced into an unnatural position. "Don't count on Sesshoumaru resurrecting you a second time, he is next on my to do list."
Gore and a shaft of red stained bone suddenly burst from Wei's right eye socket as Isamu joined the fray. Using a shard of bone as a spear, he stabbed it through Wei's head and drove its point into the mountainside. "I know this won't kill you Wei, but I hope it hurts as you owe us all such a debt of pain."
"OWE YOU?" Wei shouted as Kouga used the distraction to break free from Wei's grip. "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT KIND OF LIVING HELL YOU PUT US THROUGH AND YOU TALK ABOUT A DEBT OWED TO YOU?"
Wei ripped the spear from his head, causing chunks of the right top quarter of his skull to fly out. Although both Kouga and Isamu had witnessed Wei's regenerative abilities before, they still could not help but stare, as under the pulsing light from above, the chunks of flesh hung in the air for just a moment, before transforming into globules of blood and shooting back to rejoin Wei's head and make it whole once more.
The expression on Wei's face became unreadable and his voice softened, "You will never understand though, you didn't live through it. Only those of us who have suffered through Japan's imperial ambitions could ever hope to understand why I am doing this."
"Oh yes," Isamu bit out acidly. "Clearly raping and murdering your way through us is the only way to carry out justice."
Wei's eyes hardened to steel and the Shining Hate flashed back into his hand, "Do I look like I am interested in your concept of justice? Only the complete extermination of the Japanese will be payment enough for all the crimes they have committed against us."
"So for the crime of being born here," Kouga put in sarcastically, "we all need to die. Nope, not buying it."
"As I said," Wei replied evenly "You could never understand; only those who have been under the heel of Japan could."
Kouga narrowed his eyes at Wei. "Sesshoumaru told me that this 'Rape of Nanking' happened way before most in that future of yours were born. So I got to know, are all Chinese this whiny and just as dedicated to nursing their grudges as you are?"
Wei's response was so swift Kouga just barely saw it. In an eye blink the Shining Hate had pierced through Isamu's chest, and pinned him to the ground. Kouga found he could no longer breathe as Wei hoisted him aloft by the throat in a grip of iron.
He had just enough time to register this before Wei made a knife hand strike that penetrated into his left side. Mind crushing agony flooded through Kouga as Wei dug deeply into him.
"Does it hurt?" Wei asked, his voice filled with venom. "This is nothing compared to what you did to us. This pain multiplied by one hundred thousand doesn't even come close. Don't think you are fit to judge me. YOU. ARE. NOT."
As Wei reached deeper into him, Kouga did his best not to scream. Just as the searing pain reached a crescendo and forced a cry from his throat, he saw a whip like line of light wrap around Wei's throat and constrict tightly against it.
