Himura Battousai
Copyright© 2007 by Trojan_85
Chapter 90: A Death-place of Fresh Blood
Omasu: The lookout! Okina is fighting Aoshi there!
Misao (thinking as she takes off running): I have to stop them! If Gramps and Aoshi are fighting for real it won't end without someone really getting hurt. I've got to stop them somehow!
Kuro: I wonder if that was the right thing to do.
Omasu: I know. If we left now, we wouldn't make it in time. But even so, she has to do all she can. The person she's closest to and the person she most loves... she's about to lose one of them.
(Okina is knocked to the floor.)
Okina (thinking): He's strong... he doesn't even compare to the Aoshi I knew. All his emotion abandoned, transformed into a thing of violence, all his latent power has come out...
Aoshi: Tell me where Battousai is, Okina, and it ends here.
Okina: You mock me... I may be an old man but I am the spy Okina of the Oniwabanshuu. I would never betray a comrade to an enemy!
Aoshi: Then I will destroy you here. And I'll go on to the Aoiya to question the other four...
Okina: You will not! (thinking) Aoshi. Your strength already exceeds that of the old Okashira. Bur for that very reason, if it cost me my life, I must destroy you. For Himura, and to protect Japan from demons like Shishio.
(Shishio advances on Houji, hand outstretched. Houji, backed against a wall, can only scream.)
Shishio: Shut up.
(He presses his palm against Houji's forehead.)
Houji (thinking): What... this... how can his temperature be so high... ?! What on earth...
Shishio: Ten years ago when my entire body was burned, my sweat glands were completely destroyed. I lost the ability to regulate my body heat through perspiration. According to the doctors, I shouldn't be able to live sustaining such a high temperature. It's what I have left from the flames of Hell. It's not just my arms. Legs. Belly. Chest. My entire body continues to burn. And of course, (pointing to his head) here as well. So my voice became pure heat, without a trace of coolness. And one day I began to speak the truth.
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