>>5906740https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FzSVnrHXa0“Aku, can you help me?” you ask him, gesturing to the Abyss around you. “Is there a way to stop this Abyss from pouring out of the soul I obtained? Without relinquishing it, I mean. If the worst should ever happen again, I would still like to have this in my back pocket, just in case. It already saved my life once today.”
“Hrmm, let me take a look. What soul are you referring to?” he asks, pulling a pair of spectacles from his chest as if he had a shirt pocket, flicking them open and putting them on before looking you over once again. “Hrmmm. Hmmm... Ooooooooh.”
“What is it?” you ask, wondering what Aku sees.
“I am most impressed, Karn. That soul you now wield is that of my progenitor, the originator of the Abyss.” Aku says, you feeling your eyes shoot open. THAT THING was what Aku is trying to restore his power to? “The one who first brought it about into the mortal realm when his Humanity went wild. It is no wonder that you cannot contain it, as it is now that power is even still beyond me. Not by that much, as I've located most of the pieces in this timeline. But, seeing that soul for myself, it would seem I'm still missing around fifteen, maybe seventeen percent of it.”
“So, since it's the same, can you control it? Or at least how to stop it from rampaging like this?” you ask him, feeling more hopeful. “It was fine until that bastard Dumplin tried to steal my Berserker Soul, and I tapped into it to fight ba-”
“You WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!!” he exclaims, voice booming throughout the Abyss. Everything vibrates with his shout. “You willingly suffused your soul with that of Manus, Father of the Abyss?!”
“Wha...? I just tapped into that soul's power when I needed it, just like with the Berserker Soul. Or even the Super Saiyan power buried deep inside me.” you reply, not entirely sure what he's saying. But it gives you a bad feeling.
“Where? Where exactly within you did you feel this power?” he asks, raising a smaller version of himself up out of his pupil, it forming his usual shape roughly the same size as you. “Show me.”
“I felt it from here. It felt like it was on the inside of my shoulder blade, here.” you say, pointing with your right hand at the left side of your chest. To which Aku, without hesitation leans in, growing and thrusting the fingers of this tiny version's left hand straight into you! Unsure what he's doing, you grit your teeth over the pain, holding yourself as steady as possible. “Tch!”
“Oh, hold still. I know you've been through worse.” he says idly, sticking his tongue out a bit and pointing up as he works, seeing what you cannot. “Hmmmm... Oh! Oh no.”
Well, that can't be good.
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