>>5957431“Stop.” Hiraku says, silencing you, raising his other hand and his voice stern for the first time since you began speaking. “There is nothing wrong with your emotions or mentality. The flaw in your nature is that you carry within you a channel to the pure land, through which your vital essence has escaped. Your sister’s vital essence was meant to replace yours, but she rejected your death and her ineffable will preserves your false life against the corrosion of nonexistence. It gives your soul proper form through endless maintenance and vigilance. Imagine a man made of wet clay, only held together by the constant ministration of an artisan. In your case, you would die instantly if not for that prescient will constantly molding your spirit back into proper form. She is a good artisan indeed, for she maintains you as an immaculate simulacrum, your spirit forever failing to distort out of its natural form only due to nigh constant maintenance in the face of destruction. You live, breathe, and maintain your sanity as if nothing is wrong with you only because an angel of pure love maintains you. You are among the most blessed creatures to walk this earth. Nothing less could have saved you from the fact that you are also among the most cursed.”
“That’s a lot to take in... I have nothing to say to it. Why are demons susceptible to my chakra?”
“The light of the pure land is present in your chakra, it is this purity that repels demons. They cannot withstand its presence without the corruption of their natures being unraveled and repaired. The reason you are of a kind with them is that, despite the pure land’s ineffable nature, the channel itself is a corruption that should not be. It is a paradox, to channel such purity through a hole of such raw evil.”
“Why is my chakra… Blue?”
“You are blessed with the love of the kami, and your sister. Just as you purified yourself with water upon entering the temple, the water kami that inhabit your chakra work endlessly to shield your spirit from the depravity that lies within. Their constant work to guard the sanctity of your soul is why you are crippled with channeling chakra of a nature other than water, but also why you have not dissolved into a soulless zombie. The light of the pure land sustains them in their merciful purpose even as they fight against the odiousness of its source. The color blue is merely a filter of the eye to render the nature of your energy visible in a way that a mortal could understand. The water kami, the light of the pure land, melancholy, serenity, righteousness… It is the color of wisdom, and a myriad other things. It is only blue insofar as the human mind must perceive it as blue, because the mortal eye cannot perceive the true form of such things.”
“You said you could aid me? What do you mean to do?”
