Onmyou 4: Awaken

“Gah!” Waking up from the blank space, my head still hurts from the overload of memories, and I can feel the pain in my neck from being strangled.

But, right in front of me, as if time hadn’t moved for more than a few seconds, Akira was ready to eat Hyoka.

I place my right hand in front of me, feeling the mana from within my body, moving it onto my palm, then shaping the mana into my desired shape and applying the desired element.

“Heat Lance.”

A lance made of flames appeared in front of me. Taking aim, I shot it towards Akira’s face, which dealt a decent amount of damage.

“Gah!! Who is it!? Another onmyouji!?”

Compared to my previous life, the power is much lower. It’s to be expected, since I barely train and this body isn’t used to using mana.

“Tch, how are you still alive!?”

“Maybe you should have eaten me first.”

It would be bad if I used a spell stronger than a heat lance since it would destroy the entire building.

“Protective Area.” I placed a protection spell around the room, so anything outside won’t be destroyed.

I can easily use time magic to revert the room to it’s original state, and it’ll be easier to cover my tracks.

“Damm you!” Akira, in a fit of rage, dropped Hyako from her grasp and started coming right at me.

From my inventory, I take out an iron sword, by gathering the surrounding mana into the blade, then changing the mana into electricity, creating a large electric blade.

“Lighting Slash.” With a simple slashing motion, I sliced Akira in half.

“That’s not going to… What!? I’m… not regenerating!?”

“Obviously.” Hyoka said as she poured out numerous snake dolls from Akira’s bag and destroyed them with her sword made of ice.

“My Katashiro!”

As the doll was destroyed, Akira’s body slowly disappeared into smoke, leaving only an orb behind.

“Dispel. Chronos Renovation.” After dispelling Protective Area, I revert the room to its original state, then slowly place Akaki, Kaki, and Kiyoko onto the sofa.

“...Mahiro, just what are you?” Hyoka asked as she pointed her talisman towards me.

“You’re not an onmyouji, but you’re able to use something similar to it.”

“Erm… Memoria Erasu.” It’s going to be annoying trying to explain my situation, it’s best if i erase her memory about everything that happened today. While I’m at it, I erased the other three’s memory of today, and their memories of Akira as well.

“?? If you’re trying to erase my memory, it won’t work. All onmyouji are resistant to techniques that target their memory.”

Shit! What to do!?

“Umm… what happened?” Akaki woke up at the nick of time!

“You guys were tired and decided to take a nap.” I quickly gave a shitty excuse, but since Akaki was a simple person, he easily took my words for it.

“But, what am I supposed to do about Akira’s absence?” I murmured to myself.

“Don’t worry.” Hyoka whispered in my ear.

“The onmyouji association will handle the rest.”

“Association?”

“If you want to know more, meet me outside my school tomorrow.”

“...Unn…” As if I’m going to meet her tomorrow! If I were to go, that means I’ll be dragged into this weird monster and onmyouji fight thing!

It’ll be a repeat of what happened in my previous life! I already promised myself that I’ll live a peaceful life and will only fight as a last-ditch effort.

“No, scratch that. I’ll find you tomorrow, so you won’t escape.”

“...eh?”