[ Thunder Mist Mountains ]
[ Sakurazaka Village, Shaman's Temple Ruins ]
" Oops! " Azi Dahaka stops the regeneration.
" I overdid it, I shouldn't have. "
* Akafushi surprised as she sees the hand transformed. *
" I also don't want to give the boy this 'hand' but I had no choice... "
" I have to kill you then retract myself from this boy's body completely before the comfort gets me. " Azi Dahaka says, preparing to kill the weakened Akafushi.
" Shi...ro... " Akafushi cries, her cries are not made from her tears, but blood as she cry after her exert over her Blood Powers.
" Even in your last moments, your thoughts are still this boy. " Azi Dahaka says while teasing the body he's using.
" Are you so blinded by love, by the 'Red String of Fate's choice of your 'Fated One'? " Azi Dahaka sees the invisible string thread's between them, while Shiro had so many branches, around six branches, two is already known, the other four is yet to found.
" Love is such a waste, isn't it? " Azi Dahaka as he sees this.
" To think people these days will be so maddened about this. "
" Especially you, who possesed the 'Power of Blood'. " Azi Dahaka looks at the weakened Akafushi.
" You who possessed great power and talent, still fell prey to this..., this... "
" So-called 'feelings'... " Azi Dahaka mocks Akafushi while 'tsk'-ing her.
" Tsk, tsk, tsk... "
" What a waste of talent, of monstrosity... "
" In the ages of old, whether men or women used this power, they will doing a great massacre and get stronger instead of searching one to 'love' with... "
" But you, you're a waste of Talent, Hybrid, Akafushi. " Azi Dahaka says this, lecturing the young Hybrid as an elder he is.
" If I had this Power, I would've end a world in an instant, not just Continent, World. "
" For I will immediately bend their Blood out of their body by sheer whim. "
" But still, the World requires 'Balance'..., and 'Harmony'... "
" Some s*it rule maintained, a boring rule that I found to be vexing. "
" A rule that will always limit one to achieve greater heights, one I would always try to overthrow, by any means necessary. " Azi Dahaka lectures Akafushi, the old man comes out from him.
* Azi Dahaka's hand (Shiro's mutated hand by Azi Dahaka's power) approached Akafushi's neck, preparing to stab. *
" I've had enough of this wasting failure... "
" I also had gone pissed on giving this lecture over wasted generation like you. "
" Goodbye, waste of talent. " Azi Dahaka did it to Akafushi as Akafushi close her eyes in regret.
" Shi... "
" Akafushi! " a voice suddenly calls her, a voice of a young boy.
" Huh!? " Akafushi opened her eyes again, she sees the hand stops.
" Sister Akafushi, it's me... " the voice says it again.
" Bastard!? " Azi Dahaka asks as he realized the body's owner is taking back.
" Are you hurt? " Shiro asks while somehow able to take over the body form 'The' Chimera Master, he retracts the hand, pulling it away from Akafushi's neck.
" Shi...ro... " Akafushi cries again, but this time, in happiness.
* Shiro, who takes over half of his body's face, smiles. While Azi Dahaka is greatly confused. *
" How did you- " Azi Dahaka suddenly sees a figure from afar, a figure that he met before.
* Black Merchant is witnessed looking from afar. *
* Black Merchant smirked. *
" Grrkh, so it's you... " Azi Dahaka says after his eyes witnessed the Merchant.
( During Yakujin's battle with Kiba-Tora. )
( Right before Chimera Master, Kiba-Tora's defeat. )
[ Inside the Hidden Barrier ]*
" Go..., to her? " Shiro asks as he shivers when Black Merchant told him all.
* Shiro whimpers. *
" Hey, it's alright, she already must forgiven you by now... "
" But to make it sure, you must tell her yourself. " Black Merchant tells Shiro.
" Really? She won't hurt me? " Shiro asks while Black Merchant tries to assure him.
" Of course not, don't worry about the path ahead. "
" It will be glorious if you follow what I've told you. " Black Merchant says while assuring Shiro up and whisper something to him.
" After all, youre *whisper* *whisper*... "
" By the way, Yakujin is *whisper* *whisper*... " Black Merchant stops whispering as Shiro listened to it all in his disbelief.
* Shiro looks at the Black Merchant, after hearing all facts uttered out of nowhere. *
" Right? " Black Merchant asks Shiro.
" Then you must go. "
" I know it will take time to believe me, but good luck... " Black Merchant hardly pats Shiro's shoulders.
" Ack! " Shiro feels the pain. Not just that, Black Merchant immediately put two pills into Shiro's mouth, random pills which made Shiro cough as he swallowed it.
" Black Merchant, what is... "
" It's some pills that would help you survive the path ahead, boy. "
" 'They' will support you. " Black Merchant says as he pushes Shiro outside his 'Barrier'.
After Shiro is out.
" That's the pill that will save your life. "
" Not only 'save', it will also 'repel' things that will harm your body from now on. "
" Even if I'm still worried if it doesn't work, for... " Black Merchant stops saying it.
" Those pills..., you're the first one I'm testing it. " Black Merchant says after he pushes Shiro out.
...
( Back to the present. )
" Ah, guess it turned out fine. " Black Merchant says while seeing things come as he predicted, while witnessing the things happened in the Shaman's Temple Yard, he sees Yakujin in the skies, looking at his direction.
* Yakujin glares at the Black Merchant. *
" Hey, don't glare at me, O Chimera Master... "
" Save your 'friends'... " Black Merchant chuckles while he replied Yakujin's glare with his joking face.
While Black Merchant jokes like that, Yakujin who could've get things done, still glared at him for a while, but then, as the situation unfolds, she decides to leave and flies for her companions.
" Ah, it seems she had good instincts. "
" Guess great people really could 'sense' each other..., xixixi... " Black Merchant chuckles.
" Damn, brat! "
" How did... " Azi Dahaka struggles to retain control, while Shiro somehow repel his hold further and further.
" What happened to my body? " Shiro asks as he sees himself a bit taller than before, not only that, he sees his right arm.
" Ah! my right arm? " Shiro sees the arm, now mutated into a Black Dragon Arm-like.
" Azi Dahaka, what've you done!? " Shiro asks to Azi Dahaka.
" Brat! I should've been the one asking you!? " Azi Dahaka replies, he recounts witnessing the Black Merchant.
* Azi Dahaka tries to look for Black Merchant again. *
" Where did he- " Azi Dahaka wonder and he remembers his meeting with the Merchant back then*.
" Grkh! "
" Bastard! " Azi Dahaka angrily shouts, he's so annoyed.
" Shiro, you bastard! "
" What did that 'Merchant' gave you to make you like this!? " Azi Dahaka realized and asks it out of the sudden.
" Black Merchant? " Shiro asks while he not began to take over, he also felt an energy rising in his very body.
" I feel, 'filled'... " Shiro says to himself, he felt himself filled with energy.
" Bastard, don't change the subject! " Azi Dahaka calls him.
" Answer my question, what in the hells did that 'Black Merchant' gave you!? " Azi Dahaka asks Shiro as his consciousness are began to be repelled.
"( Dammit, right after I mistakenly healed and mutated 'his' body! )" Azi Dahaka thinks to himself, realizing this the consequence of his brief mistake.
" I... I don't know... " Shiro says in midst of Azi Dahaka's repelling from his body.
" But still..., Azi Dahaka... "
" I don't like you within my very body... " Shiro says to him.
" So please... "
" Leave. "
" Oh no, I don't! " Azi Dahaka still refuses to leave, using Shiro's left hand he's still able to control, he stabs Shiro's heart again.
" I'm not gonna leave you with anything! " Azi Dahaka uses the hand to rip the 'healed' heart again.
" No! " Shiro uses his 'mutated' right hand to prevent Azi Dahaka from doing it.
" Grkh! " Azi Dahaka struggles, for he's not in a good condition right now.
" Bastard, you already received so much from me... "
" Ain't no way, I- " Azi Dahaka's control over Shiro soon repelled, his repelling make Shiro stutter as the process also took Shiro's physical energy so much.
" Garrkh! " Shiro yelled in pain.
" Shi...ro... " Akafushi calls him while laying weak in the ground.
As she called him, she then sees Yakujin came, in her human form this time. Her eyes were dazzled to see how gorgeous her Master had become, as the Master approached Shiro and then hold him tight.
[ Skill: Sakura's Blessing, Rejuvenation ]
" I never once do this to people outside myself. " Yakujin says to the screeching Shiro, while 'Rejuvenating' him.
" Perhaps it is time I tried. " Yakujin said that, as the Rejuvenation light engulfs them both, as the light shine with blissfull radiance, radiating over the Thunder Mist Mountains with great beauty.
Thus, ending this all debacle.
" Head Shaman Yamagami's Plot, failed. "
" Azi Dahaka's possession problem, ended. " Black Merchant says this from far away.
" Guess it's time for my part to solve the problem, then. " he says as he goes towards the place, it is time for him to do something.
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Extra:
*Azi Dahaka's meeting with Black Merchant is in Chapter 49 " Attack on the Lair Part 1 ".
Back then, Azi Dahaka's consciousness is still lingering in his 'Arm Relic', sealed within the 'Black Box'.
*( During Yakujin's battle with Kiba-Tora. )
( Right before Chimera Master, Kiba-Tora's defeat. )
[ Inside the Hidden Barrier ]
This was from Chapter 44 "Why this all happened?". During Shiro's abduction.