Hanyo of Snow

Ch10 Yuras Downfall

(Yura POV)

I have finally made it back home and had was halfway through undressing Y/N, when I felt someone tripping the hairs I had left around the well.

"So they have decided to follow me then." I sighed while binding him up in hair, to make sure that he wouldn't escape again if he wakes up. "I was looking forward to this all day too now they have ruined it."

Well I better go and finish them when they arrive. The sooner those nusiences are dealt with, the faster I can fuck this hanyo into oblivion and make him mine.

(A minute later- Y/N POV)

That was way too close for comfort. I'm sure that if Inuko and Kagome had arrived a moment later, Yura would have noticed that I was awake and would have raped me on the spot.

Not that she was already trying to do so anyway.

Still she had left, obviously lying in wait for the both of them once they arrived, leaving me with just a ton of hair binding me and skulls everywhere.

The way she bound me didn't leave me much room to move, butI manged to wriggle one of my hands free and that was about it. I created an icecle and started to hack away at the hair surrounding me.

It's going to be a slow going process as I only had enough power to create this one icicle and I could only cutaway at this hair fast enough.

Hopefully I can get out of here before it is too late.

(Kagome POV)

"Watch out, there is still some hair in the well." I said to Inuko as we climbed out through the well, almost cutting myself on one of the strands.

A moment later we climbed out and surveyed the area.

"Do see anything that could lead us to Yura?" Inuko questioned.

"Not yet." I replied while looking at all of the hair surrounding us.

There had to be a main strand like the one Yura sent through the well after us.

But there was so many strands it was extremely difficult to look through.

And every second wasted was a second Yura could use to do whatever she wanted to Y/N.

So I checked through all of them as quickly as I could before finding the strand.

"This way." I said while pointing at it.

"Alright, hop on." Inuko said as I got on.

We followed the strand deeper into the forest, further and further away from the village. It would make sense that wherever Yura was holed up would be somewhere secluded. Anyway a minute later we found our first hint that Yuri was nearby, and I had to hold my dinner in at the sight.

Around a boundfire was a a campsite with headless corpses strewn about, some of them off the ground and entangled in hair.

Judging by the clothing they were some of the bandits that captured me yesterday and although they left me for dead, I couldn't help but feel a little sorry for their fate.

It didn't look like a pleasant way for them to die.

"She was hear not long ago." Inuko said as I got off her. "Judging by the smell, she was here alone."

"So that means that Yura must've left him at wherever she is hiding before coming here and dealing with them." I said before I noticed something on the ground.

"That's right. So that means she shouldn't be that far away-and what are you doing over there girl?" Inuko inquired.

"I was getting these to use against Yura." I said while showing her a bow and quiver with a few arrows in it. They must've belonged to one of the bandits, but they can't use them anymore. So I might as well put them to good use against her.

"Why are you picking those up for? You are a terrible shot and you have Y/N's sword to use." Inuko said.

"Hey I'm still just a beginner with these!" I shouted at her. "Besides, do you remember that Y/N's sword is enchanted so that only he can get it out of the scabbard."

"I forgot about the sword, but still you are useless with a bow." Inuko said back.

"That's because I never used one until yesterday. Still at least I have something to use against Yura." I replied back, causing her to sigh.

"Okay you do have a point." Inuko admitted dejectedly. "But let's just go and rescue Y/N now."

"Alright." I said, smirking a little at my smalll victory and hoped unto Inuko again.

We continued onto our path for another minute or two when we crossed and began to scale a large, steep hill.

We continued on in silence, the both of us knowing it would be the best way to not alert Yura of our location.

After another minute we reached the top and Inuko hoped onto a tree sticking out of the side.

"Are we getting close?" Inuko asked.

"Yes we are, because there is a few more strands merging with this one." I said before I saw them starting to converge on the tree. "Actually she's here!"

Inuko jumped off the tree as it was sliced to pieces and a multitude of tendrils appeared, aiming towards us.

"To your left!" I called out as a tendril shot past us. "Now your right!"

"Eas up on those orders girl, you're practically shouting into my ears!" Inuko shouted as she dodged another tendril mid air. "Either tone it down a bit or I will drop you."

"Alright, but there is another one to you left." I said softly, which Inuko complied with.

She then settled down onto the hilltop as more tendrils appeared, surrounding us.

"Okay now which way?" She questioned.

"We are surrounded on all sides now, I currently don't see any way for us to get out right now." I said grimly, loooking for any possible means of escape.

"Well if that is all , then either sit on my back and act as hopeless as usual or find us a way out!" She shouted as the tendrils shoot towards us at once.

"I'm already doing that!" I snapped back, causing her to wince a little. After a moment of searching I found out escape. "That way, quickly!" I pointed out.

Inuko jumped that way just in time for the tendrils to converge and started to run down hill.

A moment later a few more tendrils began to snake their way up the hill onto our location.

"Directly in front." I directed her once again. "Now behind you."

We kept at this for a few more moments, dodging Yura's hair as best we could. Until a tendril appear from the right and grabbed onto Inuko's wrist.

"Not again!" She snarled she tried to pull free, but was dragged forward, causing me to fall off.

I skidded down the hill til I came to the bottom and immediately looked up to find what we were searching for.

Yura's lair and it was even creepier looking then what I pictured it to be.

Though now we know where Y/N is, but currently Inuko is stuck mid air and Yura could come out to finish us any moment now.

So basically it is going to be extremely difficult for the both of us to get out alive if the situation continues to worsen.

(Inuko POV)

Great now I have my arms and legs bond by hair again and although I can't see anything, I can smell a death, hair, and Y/N not that far away from me. That means that bitch's lair is not that far away from me.

Just wish that my back up wasn't that useless girl right now, but she is currently my only chance of making sure that I'm not killed by Yura's hairs.

Speaking of the bitch, she has just arrived.

"You two are in such a hurry to die tonight." She said as I tried to power through the bonds to no success. "Well then I will simply kill the both of now and claim your hair now, because I need to hurry up before Y/N awakens."

"So you haven't done anything yet then, I figured that you wouldn't." I said, causing her to glare murderosly at me.

"Do you mind repeating that." She said dangerously, her wakizashi slowly drawing itself out of the scabbard.

"You heard what I said you bitch. I figured that you wouldn't have made a move yet.

You might have been talking a big game of what you plan on doing to Y/N.

But I bet that you don't even know what would do to him.

I'm sure that you are going to rape him, but planning on fucking him into submission was the farthest thing from what you are actually going to do with him.

I mean for Yomi's sake you probably couldn't even get him hard at all with your appearance.

You would have just skirted around him until either he killed you in retribution or you pinned him down with your hair, knocked him out, and then pathetically tried to fuck him while bawling your eyes out about how you failed.

So face it Yura, you might have talked a big game and had the looks to back it up, but you would have only failed all the same and you can only blame yourself in the end.

So you might as well just save yourself the trouble and let him go free and reflect on how hopeless your sex appeal truly is.

" I said, feeling satisfied as the emotion drained from her face and the girl doing a perfect impression of a fish.

"What the hell, Inuko!?" Kagome snapped at me when she regained her composure.

"What, I was just saying how I saw it." I said earnestly to her.

Honestly I was lying through my teeth in order to piss that bitch off enough so the bounds would loosen and give me a good shot at killing her. Evidently it seems like I struck a nerve and my plan was working.

But I really should have expected that she would have tried to kill me in a clear case of calm, murderous rage.

Luckily I managed to free my all but my right hand and dodged her strike. While passing Yura I managed to give her a good kick to the head, sending her plummeting to the ground with a resulting crash.

"Take that you bitch!" I shouted to her before I was suddenly found my self held in place one again,but with even more restraints this time. "You have got to be kid-"

I was cut off when Yura tried to bisect me.

Thankfully, my hamaka pants are also made of fire rat pelt, or else I would have been killed. Still she managed to land quite the gash spanning from a bit above my stomach and up to my right shoulder. I had to stop my self from yelling due to how much it stung.

Now I instantly regret giving the girl part of my robe.

"Is that all you got bitch, I have shaken off much worse then this!" I shouted at Yura as she appeared not that far from me, her face portraying no emotions at all.

She just stood there for a moment, before suddenly licking her blade with the same vacant expression.

Okay...that was seriously creepy.

"No." She said, her voice soft but clearly showing how pissed off she is. "This is."

She pointed her wakizashi directly towards my heart and I suddenly felt a tugging from my bonds.

Oh no...

I tried to escape but one sudden I was sent flying towards Yura's blade, with my struggles only slowing my inevitable death by impalement.

"Damn it!" I shouted as I tried to struggle some more.

A moment later I manged to free only my left hand, but it was going to close for comfort.

So I drew my claws and decided that if I was going to die like this, then I will at least behead this bitch!

Before I could even do that, an arrow came flying between us and Yura had to bat it away to avoid getting hit by it, causing the bonds to stop moving.

Looks like the girl actually came through it seems.

"Release Inuko and Y/N or the next one goes right through your eyes." The girl threatened while notching another arrow, her eyes clearly showing murderous intent.

Although I will never admit it openly, I was a little impressed by the girl's guts. If she actually managed to follow through on her threat, then I would honestly be impressed.

"If I were you, I would run away now." Yura said coldly while facing her. "I'm only aiming to kill the half breed bitch, so I suggest that you remove yourself and your lack luster hair from my premises before I change my mind."

"I'll show you lackluster!" Kagome said while firing her arrow and barely missing my head.

Before I could chew her out in her shabby archery skills, a familiar lilac glow appeared and quickly began to engulf what I presume is Yura's nest.

All of us could only stare at this phenomenon, with myself being shocked at what I was seeing.

Looks like I was wrong about the girl, for it appeared that buried deep within her she has the same spiritual prowess that Kikyo has. But being able to use it consciously seems to be another matter entirely.

Anyway the glow died down I still couldn't see the bitch's lair, a colum of skulls and hair began to seep out from were the lair supposed was.

"No, my home!" Yura shouted, causing me to smirk at her distress.

The bitch deserves it.

Still I wasn't able to enjoy the feeling for long as Y/N's unconscious body soon appeared among the skulls in the slowly descending column.

"Y/N!" The girl shout and soon dodged what I presumed to be some of Yura's hairs.

"I have spent 50 years building my home just the way a like it and now you've gone and ruined it!" Yura yelled at the girl, her rage now directed at her. "Now I will kill you and use your skull as the cornerstone of my home. Oni-Bi Gushi!"

Arcs of fire came from her hand and traveled along her hair to the girl. I knew that she would be fine as long as she had my robe on. She would still struggle though, but that wouldn't bother me that much.

I'll consider it a little payback for sending face first into that rocky lakeside.

"Help." She cried out as the flames consumed her form and she disappeared from our vision.

"She will be nothing more then ashes and bones in a matter of moments." Yura said before facing me. "And soon you should be joining her in Yomi by then." She then came at me with her blade in order to finish me off.

Luckily I was prepared.

When she tried and failed to burn the girl alive, I managed to free one of my hands. So when she came towards me I jabbed it into my open wound. She stopped midway as she looked shocked at what I was doing.

Big mistake for her.

With a smirk I withdrew my blood soaked hand and charged it with yoki. When she snapped out of her stupor, I attacked.

"Hijin Kessō!"

Most of the blades missed her, but one of them managed to sever her right hand which held her wakizashi. Any sense of joy I would have had was quashed when I saw no blood or anything began to leak from her arm or hand, which was now floating helplessly in made air.

Great so she is probably made entirely out of hair then. It is probably either going to take completely destroying her or destroying her center to completely kill her.

Still my bonds have loosened considerably. Which would help as I have a barrage of flying skulls coming my way!

I mange to bash my way threw them easily enough, before barely dodging Yura's blade from taking my head off.

"I missed your head." She said bitterly.

"Well you won't get a second chance!" I shouted while launching a volley of blood at her.

With a wave of her hand, a shield made out of hair and skulls blocked my attack. Before I could attack again I was impaled by her blade through my shoulder and had to hold back myself from yelling in pain.

The next second I was unceremoniously dumped onto the ground.

Groaning out in pain I looked up as Yura retracted her blade and reattached her hand as she started to descend towards.

"Typical of a hanyo. Half the yokai, half the power." She said smugly.

"Damn you!" I growled out at her.

"Now then." Yura said as she landed next to me. "It is time for you to die at my feet. The perfect end to a lowly bitch like yourself."

She raised her blade to behead me when an icicle grazed her cheek.

"What th-" She said while turning to face her attacker. Big mistake as a hand made of ice and talon like ice blades for fingers punched through her, with blood leaking from her wounds.

While standing in front of her was Y/N, who was looking a bit pale right now.

Considering all the shit he has been through today and possibly the first time nearly killing someone, it would make sense.

"Y/N if you wanted to touch my breasts, you could have just said so. I wouldn't have minded at all." She practically purred out, causing Y/N's face to turn a light shade of red. A moment later her face turned serious. "Still why did you have to impale this way though?"

(Y/N POV)

"You have knocked my out multiple times today, hunted me down twice, kidnapped me, nearly raping me, invaded Kagome's home looking for me and endangering her family, nearly burning her alive, and trying to kill Inuko." I said dryly and wishing that this day would finally end.

"Fair enough." Yura shrugged, uncaring and seeming unfeeling about the fact that I had my whole fucking hand through her chest!

Not to mention the fact that she had stopped bleeding and that her wound was closing wasn't a good sign for us.

From what little I saw during her fight with Inuko and now this, Yura is seeming immortal.

But as far as I know there is no such thing as true immortality, so there must be something that is holding her together and I had a feeling Inuko knew that too.

I was broken from my musings when Yura spoke again.

"Wait did you say almost burnt alive?" She questioned before looking behind me and what I saw made my blood run cold.

Kagome was climb up what remained of Yura's nest towards what appeared to be a red skull. When I looked back at Yura, her face portrayed nothing but fear.

Kagome had found Yura's core.

Acting out in fear, Yura kicked me and dislodged me hand from her body and bond me in another cocoon. Inuko tried to grab her, but was quickly grounded when Benigasumi was stabbed into her hand.

With that done Yura began to manipulate the remains of her nest to kill Kagome, but no matter what she still held on and continued to climb onwards towards the red skull.

While this was going on, me and Inuko were breaking through our bonds which had loosened considerably. Inuko got free first and removed Benigasumi from her hand and launched herself at Yura.

"You shouldn't have looked away you bitch!" She yelled out as she sliced Yura's back.

It did nothing but stunned her for a second before the wounds instantly closed and Inuko was instantly sent flying into the nearby hillside.

"If you want to die so badly then you can wait your turn. I'm killing the human first!" Yura shouted at Inuko.

"Well if I am going to die then I will die happy. Because I know that a single, hopeless human girl got an arrogant bitch like yourself so terrified." She said with a smirk, only infuriating Yura even more.

I managed to cut threw my bond finally and created a massive icicle that crashed in front of Yura, sending her flying. She regained her composure mid air and shot straight after Kagome, with Benigasumi not that far behind her.

I tried to go after her, but I was bond by hair again.

"Damn it, I'm going to rip that bitch into pieces!"

Apparently Inuko was also trapped again.

Also I'm not going to be able to get out of this as my makeshift claw melted after creating that icicle.

So here I am, powerless and bound while Yura is free to kill Kagome.

This is not going to end well...

(Kagome POV)

I just needed to get that skull and all of this would end.

Both and Y/N and Inuko couldn't stop her, as Yura seems to be practically immortal as she survived Y/N punching a hole through her chest and that only seemed to slow her down.

Anyway it was just a little farther away when I saw that she had once again bond the both of them and was coming after me.

Well isn't that just fantastic.

"Kushi no Oni!" Yura shouted as all the ruins of her nest went skyward and tried to trap me in a cage of hair and skulls. Luckily their was an opening that I crawled out of before the mass of hair of bones compacted together.

If I hadn't gotten out I would have been crushed to death. Best not to think about it and just find that skull again.

"Just die already!" Yuma shouted as she sent her blade straight at me.

However I wasn't worried.

Thanks to the robe Inuko lended me I survived being burnt alive Yura's flames and I've seen this same thing deflect Y/N's sword. I've also seen her hakama pants which are probably made of the same thing deflect Yura's wakizashi.

So I knew that I was safe when the blade harmlessly bounced off.

Still it hit me hard enough to throw me off the tower before my wrists were bond by hair.

"How hard is it to kill one lowly human!" Yura shouted as she sent her hairs all over my body, with them doing nothing as the robe stopped them. "I've tried crushing you, stabbing you, and now slicing you to ribbons and nothing is working! So let's try the old fashioned way then!"

I did not like the sound of that.

A moment later a hair wrapped around my neck and started to crush my windpipe.

She was choking me to death!

"Now this is better." Yura said, noticeably calmer. "There are so many way to kill you now. Should I just choke you to death, slice through your neck and behead you, or just drop the restraints and leave you hanging? So many choices, so little time."

Thankfully she didn't have a chance to make a choice.

"Hijin Kessō!"

Inuko unleased an entire barrage of red blades and they cut up Yura into nothing, leaving nothing behind except a the echos of her screams.

With her gone there was nothing to support the hair and everything began to crash to the ground.

As I was falling to the ground and my vision started to darken, I saw Inuko jumping towards me with Y/N on her back. They tried to say something, but I couldn't exactly hear them. A moment later my vision turned black and I fainted from exhaustion.

(Y/N POV)

After Inuko destroyed Yura and caught me and now Kagome we landed on a huge mound of skulls, with Kagome starting to stir up a few minutes later.

I really hope that Inuko either managed to kill her, because if she does regenerate then we are all doomed. I'm sure that none of use except Inuko could survive another round with her.

We needed to find that skull as soon as possible.

"Y/N you keep an eye on the girl, I'll look for the skull." Inuko finally spoke up. "We are going to need it if Yura does return."

"Alright." I said simply as she started to shift through the skulls as Kagome finally woke up. "You alright Kagome?"

"I'm fine. Just can youplease help me stand up, I can't really feel my legs at the moment." She said weakly.

Wordlessly I helped her get up and after a minute she was able to stand up on her own.

"Thank you Y/N. But do you think that Yura is gone now?" Kagome asked.

"No I don't think so, she will come back so we better find that skull so that we can deal with her." I said.

"Don't you mean to kill her." Kagome said.

"If it comes down to it then yes." I said honestly. "But maybe we should try another way to deal with her."

"What do you mean by that Y/N? Honestly after all that she has done especially to you, I would think that you would be all up for killing her." She said with a inquisitive look.

"You'd be right about that, but neither one of us have ever killed anyone before.

Well Yura might've done a lot of horrible things too us, I think it would be better if she was a live.

She recognized what my ancestry was right away and knew about my mother's clan, so it stands to reason that she knows what we could possibly be dealing with.

The only other one we have if we do go searching for the shards is Inuko, but she has been out of commission for over 50 years.

So it would be better if we had someone helping us on our journey. " I replied honestly.

I know that it seems a bit of a cowards move not to kill Yura, but she does have valuable intel of the time period.

Besides I don't have the stomach to kill just yet, I know that if Kagome does wish to go on this quest I will have to eventually kill anyone who is trying to kill us. So I just want to hold on out on this just a little bit longer.

Kagome glared at me for a few moments before she relented.

"Fine then, we'll try your way first. But how do you propose we get Yura to behave then?" She sighed out.

"We could ask Kaede to bind the skull or whatever is in the skull like the rosary does with you and Inuko." I suggested, getting her to nod.

"That actually could work." Kagome said.

"Oh it will work and she will absolutely hate having to listen to me and you, but not Y/N.

She would probably at the start, but that would change seeing that she traveled through time just to get him.

Still with the chance for that bitch to suffer the same thing I do and the ability to reign her in if she get too full of herself is too good of a chance to pass.

" Inuko said as she appeared with the skull in hand.

"Still though, next yokai or human we face and are trying to kill us for the shards, we are killing them.

I'm sure things like that are not as necessary in the future, but this isn't your era.

This is my era, so eventually you will have to kill someone in order to survive.

It is mostly kill or be killed when it comes down to the likes of bandits and yokai. "

"I know that, I just that-" I tried to say, but Inuko cut me off.

"That you want to put it off for a bit, I can understand that. But you should come to terms with it soon, prolonging it would only make it worst for yourself." She said while starting to break the skull.

"I will." I replied truthfully.

"Good." Was all Inuko said as she broke the skull.

Looking down at what was in her hands we saw a small red comb.

"So I take it that this is Yura's true form then?" Kagome asked, getting nods from the both of us. "So then she is a tsukumogami. But how did she get so powerful then?"

"It's because that is a ceremonial comb used to brush the hair of the dead.

There is no telling how many times or the circumstances that this comb was used for before it became Yura.

Honestly in this era tsukumogami being born like that are commonplace with all the conflict between humans going on, however ones that are as powerful as Yura are rarities as the rest are only minor annoyances.

" Inuko explained before her ears perked up.

"Y/N, catch!" She shouted as she threw the comb.

I tried to catch it, but it slipped through my hand. Thankfully Kagome managed to catch it. However Benigasumi lodged itself into Inuko's shoulders and sending her straight to the ground.

"That toke awhile, but now I'm here to return the favor and slice you apart you half breed bitch." Yura said calmly, but was taken aback when Inuko started to laugh. "What's so funny? I have you impaled and I'm about to kill you, so why are you laughing?"

"It's because you have already lost, you tsukumogami bitch!" Inuko laughed out.

Yura jumped off her suddenly and her face portraying fear, before she quickly looked around and found her true form in Kagome's hands. She removed her blade from Inuko and lunged at my friend.

Unflinchingly, Kagome started to put pressure onto the comb.

Yura collapsed onto the ground screaming out in pain as she started to glow a light blue. I could only watch with a bit of fear as Kagome and Inuko had sadistic smiles at Yura's pain.

Note to self, do not piss them both off at the same time or at all.

After a few minutes, I decided to end this.

"Kagome I think that you two got your payback on Yura. She is currently unconscious and if you continue, you might actually kill her." I said and pointed at her.

Sure enough Yura was knocked unconscious, and her face onto contorted into one of extreme suffering.

That was not a pleasant way to be knocked out.

Kagome had the decency to look sheepish as she handed me the comb.

"I might have gone a little overboard." She admitted sheepishly.

"You did." I said as I found my gi underneath some skulls. It was torn a bit, but nothing a little sewing can't fix.

"Still I think that Yura deserves a little more payback, but since you wanted her alive Y/N it is your call. Still I'll admit that I'm impressed at you for putting that bitch in her place Kagome. Well done." Inuko said as she picked up Yura and carried her over her shoulder.

Both me and Kagome stood there, shocked for a minute. Inuko just said Kagome's name for the first time.

I threw of my shock and smiled at her and Kagome looked up to the sky, like looking for the inevitable meteor to strike the Earth at any second.

That might of been an overreaction, but that was the closest thing that I can compare Kagome's expression to.

Still I was glad that Inuko has seemly warmed up to Kagome a bit.

"You just said my name." Kagome said once she got over her shock.

"Well don't think too much about it." Inuko said before wincing and clutching her new wound.

"Are you alright?" Kagome asked.

"I'm fine, nothing a little patching up and a night's sleep will fix." Inuko said.

It was true, well for her anyway. From what I know most hanyo have a healing factor. Nothing really absurd, but the highest level of is basically broken bones healing over the course of half a day.

Speaking of which, didn't Inuko ask me to remind her of something...

Oh, now I remember.

"Inuko didn't you ask me to remind you about Kaede." I said, causing her to go pale.

"Damn it, I almost forgot! Let's go!" She said while running off with Yura.

"Where is she going?" Kagome asked as I picked up Benigasumi and the both of us ran after Inuko.

"I'll tell you on the way." I said, getting her to nod.

So we ran into the forest after Inuko, leaving the ruins of Yura's nest behind.

(??? POV)

So the rumors were true.

Inuko has awakened, Kikyo has awakened, and the Shikon Jewel has reemerged, but has been shattered.

While the jewel's shattering is a major inconvenience, that could easily be rectified.

As for Inuko and Kikyo's reincarnation, I have nothing to worry about. If their struggle against that tsukumogami was of any indication, they have a while to go before they are of any threat to me.

But what really interests me is that other hanyo, Y/N I believe he is called.

Not only is he a male yuki-onna hanyo, among the rariest of yokai but his shard is abnormal.

Although so far I have encountered 3 shards including the one imbedded in his chest, that one is by far the most powerful. It feels like there is more than one thing lurking in there.

I have a guess as to what, but it is still too early to tell.

Y/N requires more observation to actually determine his value, particularly a much more thorough observation.

Preferably up close and maybe personal.

Still that can wait a bit.

If I'm correct then a certain daiyokai should arrive at this village once word of Inuko's return reaches her and provide a excellent opportunity to gauge Y/N's capabilities.

I'll leave a kugutsu to observe him while I search for more shards myself. I may need them incase anything happens.

You never know what will happen, but it is best to lean on the side of caution.

Speaking of which, there is a certain problem that I need to take care of.

I could easily kill that monk, but I have the perfect curse in mind.

I'll take care of that later, I have shards to locate and a hanyo to observe.

(Chapter 10 end)