Massacres in a Peaceful Land

"Fresh air - how delightful that we get to go on a blood-soaked fury on such a beautiful day! Since the villages are connected, take your pick and relish in the violence. I don't simply want to face and slay this successor to Saotome - I want to make her suffer to the utmost extent that her presumably mortal body can take! Only then, may she bleed out and die."

Kyashi said as she then swiftly turned and faced Harada, Arashi, and Boroshi - once again pointing her sword at them as a gesture to remind them of who was truly in charge! The three looked at her, and then at each other, and nodded, as they all stood on a hill overlooking the few interconnected minka house villages that they'd stepped out onto from inside the dimensional prison.

"I'll make an unholy banquet of those villagers' human souls in the settlement to the left!"

Harada declared in his booming, demonic voice as he raised his right hand and slowly made a fist in front of him, while also grinning with his razor share teeth and long, outwardly curved four fangs!

"Hey! At least leave their bones for me! You know how I'm trying to collect as many as I can for my amusement!"

Arashi then chimed in, while Harada rolled his eyes - never having been one to take Arashi seriously. Though, Kyashi and Boroshi never took him seriously either, as the victims of Arashi were the only ones who were unable to underestimate him. 

"As long as there's a comfortable place for me to sit and watch these worthless mortals consume themselves in their avarice as my fate gift to them, then that is all that matters to me."

Boroshi responded in turn as he patted his tall, ornate vase gently, before looking at Harada and Arashi, and then leading those two in a reverent bow to Kyashi.

"Amuse yourselves how you may in their collective slaying and suffering - but do not proceed without me to the castle, or get in my way. That is, unless you want your blood to run through my veins and through my sword - while I also see how devouring one of my own kind raw, really tastes!"

Kyashi responded sternly as she thrust her sword closer to Harada, Arashi, and Boroshi - who all preceded to shudder in genuine alarm, knowing that she was being all too serious with her threat!

"That's what I thought. Now - let's celebrate our centuries long awaited freedom with a massacre - and remind the inhabitants of this land the real reason of why they remember the name Saotome!"

Kyashi declared as Harada sprinted down the hill first - tearing his way effortlessly through the cherry blossom trees and into the village, grabbing a young woman in his hands with ease as she screamed in terror!

"Ah - youthful souls are always taste the best!"

Harada growled with excitement as he held the young woman in his left hand, while plunging his right hand into the center of her torso - before pulling her body back one way, and his right hand the other way! In his right hand, was a glowing white, somewhat translucent version of the young woman! As she opened his large mouth wide, he slowly fed the young woman's soul down into his body, consuming it!

"Arashi! Fresh flesh, bones, and internal organs - as you requested!"

Harada said as he tossed the lifeless body of the young woman aside with complete indignity and demonic callousness to Arashi, as he grinned when the lifeless corpse of the young woman fell at his feet!

"Ooh! It's always the young women who have the most fun bones to rip out, play with, and collect!"

Arashi said as she whimsically hand sprung down the hill to her, before sitting cross-legged before her corpse and holding is hands out over her body as a sickening yellow energy emanated from them!

All the while - the villagers across the interconnected settlement screamed, ran, cried, and generally acted in a state of complete panic - helpless to do anything without Kikyo - who was still recovering her strength after being exposed to the essences of pure evil!

"The greater deities are wrong - it is not selflessness and generosity, but selfishness and avarice which are the actually correct ways to live!"

Boroshi declared as he reached into his jar and tossed a cursed golden powder on the handful of villages closest to him, who numbered about ten or so! As soon as this cursed golden powder hit them - they ceased acting in a panic as their eyes turned golden and their bodies became emaciated while they clawed and tore at each other - being trapped in a frenzied illusion that the people next to and around them were actually chests and other containers of treasures and riches to be opened! As this happened, Boroshi smiled and piled some of the corpses that Arashi hadn't gotten to yet into a makeshift chair to watch the avaricious frenzy unfold!

"Where is your Savior now!?"

Kyashi yelled with unholy delight as she slashed fifteen or so villagers in half with a single swing of her sword, which was accented by a blood red flash from the cursed energy  within her weapon! 

"Saotome couldn't slay me - so what makes you think her Successor can!?"

Kyashi said as she thrust her sword into a line of five panicked, fleeing villagers - skewering them all tightly and swiftly on her massive blade!

"Get out of my way, filthy wretches!"

Kyashi yelled as she push-kicked all five now deceased villagers off of her sword as they crumpled to the ground! And yet - the carnage had only just begun!

At the castle, Asuka felt an unnerving sensation that hurt her head, and made her chest ache - it was a combined pain that she knew all too well, for she was warned about this during her training to become the High Priestess: the four of the most powerful and evil deities, the Kami who were truly the most unrepentant and vile, had returned!

"WATANABE-SAMA - WAKE UP! YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP! I FEEL AND I SENSE THAT THE MOSR VILE AND EVIL FOUR HAVE RETURNED, AND IF THWY RECLAIM THEIR ESSENCES, THERE WILL BE NO HOPE! NO - WAKE UP, WATANABE-SAMA!"

Asuka pleaded with tears in her eyes as she pulled Kikyo up in her arms, while Kikyo woke up in a surge of adrenaline, taking rapid, heavy breaths and staring into Asuka's tearful eyes, as Kikyo blushed and nodded, looking at Asuka with determination and love.

"Then I don't have a choice - I'm going to put an end for them once and for all!"

Kikyo replied with a surge of adrenaline fueled bravery! She was terrified, as terrified as Asuka was - and yet if nothing else, Kikyo knew that she would be fighting not just for this land and its people - bur for Asuka!

"But before we face them -!"

Kikyo added as she gulped and blushed even more, before she then nodded and pulled Asuka in for a passionate, warm, wet, heartfelt kiss as they held each other tightly there in the throne room of the castle!