The car settled near the pavement. "Hopefully you'll learn something. Maybe you can help your aunt. I'm older but she called me and said her doctor diagnosed her with psychosis." said her father Aoike. "Be mindful; she's paralyzed in one leg." He looked at his shoes in the car. "Which is a common thing in this family," Aoike blew air to have it removed before it gets any worse".
Hanazawa stood outside the car. Her aunt was now an ill woman and stayed in the old kominka home. Asada was outside and seemed lost. Hanazawa had her father's gray hair and gray eyes. Her mother divorced her father and did everything to cover her looks. She said she was dead.
She wore her white shirt and blue short jean pants.
"Ok." she said. Her skin was wheat as the cool wind blew. "And don't drink!" her father sped off in the car.
Hanazawa rolled her eyes. "Whatever."
From Shibuya to the mountains. "Auntie!" she watched her aunt hit the front door screaming. "Auntie!" she jogged to her. "Aunt Asada! It's Hanazawa, you remember me? Your niece."
"What?" her aunt stared at her with big eyes. She squinted, "Hannah?"
"Yes Auntie."
"Hannah open the door I need the bathroom and I almost went in the bushes." Asada growled. "I don't know how I keep getting locked outside." Her eye twitched.
"... Auntie." Hanazawa muttered. She grabbed the handle and pulled it, it opened but there was a small red string attached from the inside. "The latch come off…" said Asada. "It's stuck…"
"Call Machida. The phone is in the house on the wall near the kitchen to the left of the house."
"Is the back door open?" she asked.
"What back door?" she linked her big eyes.
"Where is the window in the back of the house?" she lowered her gaze. "What? Oh" she looked up. "This is a problem…"
"AAHHHH!" Hanazawa screamed.
It took a few hours. But the locksmith showed up and took the whole door off the house. Hanazawa couldn't believe her was so sick.
The house was a mess. Giant trash bags against the wall. Clothes in the living-room. Boxes and a old dresser stuffed near the outside.
"Now, if I remember, I have an old bathroom. I squat to use the toilet, but I have one leg so. Last year I got a new shower."
"Where do you shit?"
"It might be in a bag. My doctor asked for a stood sample so…"
Hanazawa couldn't stop thinking of the onion sewage smelling home. "Did he get the sample?"
"Yes. But I've just been keeping more in a bag in case he ask again."
Hanazawa slapped herself in the face. "Where's my room?"
"Your room?" she thought. "Mmm… you can sleep in the veranda."
"The porch!"
"I'm using the guest room." said Asada. "The kitchen is being moved so you can sleep in vermillion."
"Auntie!" she screamed.
She had to step over things to get to her aunt's room. After tripping over a bucket with magazines, she made her goal. Hanazawa opened the door and saw a small family of rats. She named each one in her head.
There was Rai who looked wet. Nobuo who had afoot missing, Kiko who was covered in dirt. Hiro chewed on a piece of toilet paper. Lastly, she assued they were all male and gave the last one the name Momo. Until she saw Momo struggling to walk with a rat trap stuck to it's testicles.
"Auntie!"
"Who is that?"
"Hannah!" she screeched. "Oh my goodness. Did you go upstairs?"
"No!"
"Good. Because I got rid of the stairs. Becareful!"
Hanazawa stuck in her breath. She smacked her lips, "Do you need help in the kitchen?" she asked between her teeth.
"Go and turn on the hotspot on in the guest room and make yourself some dumplings. The kitchen is relocated and the stove is gone." she said. Hanazawa blinked her eyes rapidly, "Where did you say the phone was?"
"The phone?" Asada looked up at the ceiling. "I do have the phone. I mean, I have a phone but I don't use the phone on the wall. I use a different phone." she started to mumble under breath. Hanazawa went to the entrance. "Auntie!"
She saw her aunt leaded up against the wall. "Auntie, listen, the phone to the house. I need to call the doctor for you."
"I know what it is." she shook her head. "It's that goddamn period, I just know it is."
"Auntie you are 45."
"Exactly, my pills stopped working."
"Your period pills?"
"Yes."
"Auntie, period pills never stop working. I need to call the doctor."
"I don't have a doctor for periods. That's what the nurse does."
"You don't have a nurse."
"Who was the man in my house last week. Wait," she grabbed the wall. "Who is Fukuo Hidemi?"
"That's the damn news anchor on the radio!"
"Oh…"
I cleaned out the bathroom for myself and noticed she sold the shower. I am prepared to be musty. I took a large comb from the closet that had five stacks of bibles. I grabbed a religious audio tape and played it in the bathroom.
"It is without a doubt. That God loves me. He loves me, you, and homeless man down street!" the tape screamed as an audience clapped. "Amen," I muttered.
Then came, "Turn it off!" my aunt exclaimed. I combed my hair and fluffed it out. She told me to take one of the beds outside to the kitchen, I have decided to sleep outside.
She demanded I put on a kimono or else it would upset the spirits of the house. I changed my underwear and found more painful news. She has no groceries and survives off chocolate and candy. I had a glass of chocolate milk and a bento box I found in the freezer.
It was still cold. The octopus was crunchy and freezer burned. I also found a porn magazine in the living room, a crucified rat in the hallway closet.
"Auntie you need help. I found the porn magazines in one of the trash bags stuff behind the refrigerator." I lamented. "The Shimai…" she spoke. She looked at me. "The what?"
"Akai me no shimai." she said and repeated about five times. "They… them… us… and you. It is part of our family and tonight. It will happen." She stood by the kitchen sink, "The water is warm," she licked her lips and left the kitchen. "Its only a matter of time."
"What does that mean?"
"The butterflies… and the sake. We have to prepare. Tonight!"
"What?" I bit my lip. "Go to the store. Get crayons, sake, tea, dirt, and collect the rats for the fire!"
"Sake? And murder Rai, Nobuo, Kiko, Hiro, and Momo."
"Did you name them?" she asked with her face furrowed. "Yes?" She slapped me. "Do no name the offerings! Get the supply and tomorrow, the moon will open the tori gate and Moshindenru will come help us."
"What!"
"Go to the store Hannah! And do your hair!" she yelled at me. "I already did my hair!" I scream.
Later on in the night, I went to the store. A small general convince store with a girl wearing a giant pikachu costume. "I work here. I love video games, manga, and hotpot dinners, I'll tell you, that roll my sushi in bread and drink cola."
"Do you have Sake?"
"In the back."
"Why did you tell me that?"
"I hate when people tell me im cute."
"Your a pikachu."
"At night, but in the morning I am Jia Nozomi."
"Ok, let me get about 12 pocky packs."
"What flavor?"
"All."
"Evil." she murmured. "Do you want the limited edition?"
"What limited edition?"
"Gralic Wasabi."
"No."
"It's 2.99"
"no…" I growl.
"Sake is about 7 dollars. So that's 458 yen."
"Wait, I just want the sake and the pocky."
"That's why it's 458."
"Who else sells shit?"
"It's just 458." she hisses. "I will hit you."
I ended up getting my pocky and sake and went to a different store for the crayons and tea, for the dirt. I scooped up a pile of dirt in a park and put it in a jar.
"Dirt, tea, sake, and now I must murder."
I walked back home and passed one of the many tori gates in japan. I look at the red gate and bow. It flashes, and tiny red butterflies come through the gate.
"What in the f…"
The butterflies flew near my legs and landed on knees. Soon I had butterflies on my arms and this giant red glowing butterfly with big antennas came out of the gate.
"W-what!"
I was too tunned to move, It put out this pollen aroma and I couldn't feel anything. I blinked and was vision became fuzzy. "What in the…" I fell to the left and felt the cold pavement.
[ Descendant has dropped. Oni Codex has been assigned. Level 1 Dormant Demon. Welcome to the Feudal Era.]
I hate people who say you can sleep in the grass because it's soft. I know the butterflies whisked me away.
[Welcome to the Feudal Era descendant of Lady Naoko.
Level 1 Dormant Demon
--The bloodline is there. You feel it pulsing through your veins. But you can't hold a bat yet.
Mission: Reach Ururikufu village.]
A black screen with white letters glows white. "What the hell is Ururikufu Village?"
I get up and dust myself off. I realize my clothes have changed. I have this beautiful kimono. The kimono is a bold fusion of darkness and elegance. Crafted in glossy black, it gleams like obsidian, with crimson butterflies scattered across. A black leather waist corset is adorned with gold bullet-like ornaments, and on the left shoulder rests a demonic pauldron in the shape of a skull.
[Abilities and Stats: You will use holy 2 abilities. Until you find the Red Sword. You have The Butterfly Tear.]