>>10257740Futaba was silent, at Skelly's words.
Then, she raised a hand to her mouth, letting out a great, haughty guffaw. One that echoed through the mountains.
>Is that all you can say? To an Oni who has lived forty-thousand more lifetimes than you?>The spirit of combat lives in every Oni and ningen. So does the will to murder.>But I want what is best for my child. I want her to reach a zenith the Oni have not reached in millennia.>>10257818Then, her attention shifts to Shogun. The arrogance, swiftly turning to fear and anger. Another step, not back towards her captive, but towards the miko herself.
>Mou, already trying to reason for peace?>Do you have no family, little blossom? No one to cry into their shoulder, or to hold you by the hand as you walk?>This is not simply a murder, iie, this is righting a wrong. It is the Oni way. And Zuni would understand.She draws a smirk in the demon's direction, then looking back to Aina, arms slowly raising in a defiant taunt, as she watched Onigiri step forward. It was now or never.