บท 4: Awakening

Yuppie I'm also writing after 5 h of sleep, I think I have insomnia

Anyway Enjoy !

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"Why won't you help me save the world? " Kiga asked Nayuta, while they were sitting watching Denji fighting some devil, hoping to change her mind.

"I told you cuz I HAVE SCHOOL DUH ! And I got a math test on the way too !" Nayuta replied with her usual childish manner, like the kid she is.

"Can't you see the destruction? The restaurant that have been demolished, the chefs that died, the food that had gone wasted" Fami tried persuading her.

"Don't care about anything besides food ?..or chefs, restaurants ?" The kid asked.

"I care about waiters too" she replied.

"At this rate...you will just give it up" control mocking her resolutions and motives.

Would she give it up, given her only motive is food ?

Flashback ends

Now in the cell

'This is fucked up' she thought to herself, as she laid on the ground wounded, being watched by several special grade and semi 1 grade curses, not that many though.

The air was thick of cursed energy, inspecting her like a prey, she would just let it be, it's not as if she fears death or something, no remorse no sadness she just stood on the corner, not even trying fighting back.

You would just give it up ...

Well not until it came to her mind, this world has no major threat like death devil, sure there's some conflicts between humans and cursed spirits but it's quite the same as back then. If there were then she would've heard of it by now given she lives in one of the big clans, Zenin clan, and from her often spying on the adults councils. It all concludes that humanity won't cease to exist, SO IS THE FOOD.

Fuck it, she will enjoy it to the fullest, grabbing a knife she stole from the ball and hid under her dress, which resulted later in injuries up her spin, reinforcing it with cursed energy, glowing purple in the darkness. Her energy is so immense

[Cursed technique: Shadow style :batto sword drawing]

Fast sword drawing technique that coats Kiga's blade in cursed energy and rotates it around the blade to increase its drawing speed dramatically, enough so to severely or even fatally injure a grade 1 curse, though in this case she has only a knife so

[Shadow style : Hazy Moon]

Shadow Style technique that recreates part of a broken blade with cursed energy, but in this case she used it to extend the knife turning it into a sword. There were 3 semi grade 1 curses insight, they were identical human size cockroaches that didn't seem to have a certain technique.

The shadow-filled cell made the visitor feel like it was a tomb. At its center, she was the only one present, a creature invisible in the dark, her sword bright like a slight ray of moonshine. A pack of cockroach curses came around the spot where she stood, and their haunting chitinous forms were even grotesquely more pronounced in the dimness.

Fami seemed to be blind. The curses hissed and mandibles clicked, but Fami was not moved. As her heartbeats were becoming distant echoes, her willpower came to fill the void with silence.The first curse sped the time, and it, with its spiky legs outstretched, attacked thus. Fami dodged the aggression, the movement barely visible such was her focus. The curse, now on the ground with its green blood gone on the floor, was the grim reaper of its own kind, she cleaned titled her head at the scene.

The second curse slowed down as it peered at her with its many eyes. Just as the curse was fleet of foot, it attacked instants later. The creature's thorax was sliced by Fami's blade that the impact of it made her whole body feel the hurt. She didn't have any feelings, neither the pain of killing nor the satisfaction of victory. Her thoughts were only of how prey think.

It was draining, they were semi garde one and the constant use of Haze Moon was tiring even though she has an immense amount of cursed energy, but the technique required hard level of energy manipulation given it's a simple domain one.

Fami sighed when suddenly the last curse quite calmly moved in the direction where she stood still. "Your turn," she whispered. The sword flourished, every sword stroke being clear as broad-day. The beast stumbled and its insides were laid out on the ground. Fami walked across the monster's body, which had by now turned red from the blood dropped by her supposedly new shoes.

Literally, she was near her limits, and the atmosphere was becoming burdend to the last drop of foul air. Of the blade that was initially, ridden with curse power, a negative ghost, the cursed energy was now gone. Faceless, she was a wraith, the dark sharp blade that was besides being inexorable, unfeeling also.

There was more....

Jinmei is curse born from humanity's fear of darkness, it has a conglomerated body of the chaotic shades that loom and writhe as if it is a lifeless abyss. The face of this giant is a pair of bloody red balls that are like piercing lasers in the darkness, growing and conversely eating the sad mad fear of life. Although, the acceleration of its force has no outer limit and it has trouble remaining in one state of matter, and it jumps in and out of the darkness to attack us before one can react.

Alongside Shikijo, a creature with monstrous exaggerated renditions of human features. The body is a quivering melange of flesh and tentacles, each one having a grasping hand or a snappy jaw. Its gentle rocking of the spirit when it stretches out its body flops it and retracts the body column as well when it is time to be replenished.

Round two ! !

She inhaled deeply, re-executing her Haze Moon technique, the cursed energy taking the form of a bright sword in her hand. The atmosphere was filled with tension as two special grade Malice curse emerged, their evil aura surrounding her in the narrow space. The Darkness-Themed Curse was the first to make its move; its shadowy-banded arms moved through the air at a tremendous speed. Fami used her sword to deflect the attack, and the clash of cursed power sent sparks flying about.

She rotated on her toe, cutting off the tendrils with her blade, but they immediately came together again and burst towards her once more.She was barely able to act before Shikijo burst from,

[Cursed technique: lust touch]

The tentacles of the cursed energy reaching out to embrace and capture her.

The horsemen left her feet behind her in her leap, barely touching the ground as she did a perfect backflip and landed in a squat position, her face as cold and as focused as she needed to be to assess her opponents' strength. They were too swift and clever, and with their associative attacks, the girl had to make quicker decisions.Fearlessly the girl surged through the air towards jinmei, her sword the only thing slowing down the motion. Her blows were precise, each one meant to dismember the monster's legs.

[Cursed technique: Dark binding]

The curse countered her attacks with a surge of darkness, which spread and enclosed her in a suffocating blanket of darkness. Fami could not see a thing, but she still felt that the Lust-Themed Curse was coming towards her. Releasing her cursed energy, Fami released a flash of pure light, which dispelled the darkness that surrounded her.

[Cursed technique : Cursed blast]

She pierced the mass of shadows with her sword, the resistance she felt it as it got to the curse's core. Jinmei howled in a guttural manner, but its body was only shaking and convulsing. However, Kiga got distracted as she felt that Shikijo had thrown it's tentacles around her waist in a slimy, cold grip, without a moment to lose.

She struggled, her sword slashing through the tentacles, but they regenerated faster than she could cut them. The curse's multiple eyes stared at her, its mouths whispering unintelligible words that clawed at the edges of her mind.

[Cursed technique: Cursed whispers]

A Cursed technique that interferes with one's cursed flow of the brain resulting in damage at the part responsible of the innate technique.

Fami, undaunted, found her balance, and by the means of the otherworldly force that she had herself gained,

[Cursed technique: Cursed blast 'shaping']

She creats a protective barrier around herself from cursed flow. The whispers receded into the background, and she was, at last, able to overpower the enticing force of the dark mystery she was unable to unravel. She rapidly launched herself at the Lust curse, cutting through its writhing mass with her sword. The curse seemed to be in unbearable pain, but it was still holding her mind its prisoner entirely. So, the Darkness-Curse took the opportunity, and its tendrils, aiming like vipers, struck viciously.

Famine devil made a quick maneuver, almost escaping a fatal strike. She anguished the creature with a rapid strike, her heel plunting its core and hence throwing it completely off balance. However, the joy of the moment passed; the Lust-Themed Curse's tentacle entwined around her legs, thus making her fall out of balance.

Kiga was pushed to the ground by the force, her sword sliding from her hand. The Darkness-Themed Curse, towering over her, pointed haughtily at her.

[Cursed technique: Body repel]

She, with a move to the second, barely evaded an attack from its shadowy overwhelming output of Soul Multiplicity.

Her stamina betrayed her, with a glance at the curses one by one struck the combat pose. She put a series of strikes and made a vertical turn, her sword cutting the bond between her and the attacking limbs. The feeling of triumph swept over her as Shikijo withdrew, yet the Darkness Curse, who was sure to take off advantage of her distraction, overwhelmed her as its tendrils wrapped around her arm and dragged her with it.

Both entities relies on cursed binding, using their tendrils or idle transfiguration of their flesh that tightly ensnares their target, as to crush it to death thus Kiga had to constantly focus her cursed energy fully on her body so as to not get any bone broken, this act is energy draining both cursed one and stamina; alongside the usage of the special kind of cursed speech.

The curses were too strong, their combined attack too much for her. She tried to focus, to summon her remaining cursed energy but it was no use. The Darkness-Themed Curse's tendrils tightened around her and the Lust-Themed Curse's whispers filled her head. With a final, detached effort Fami released a burst of cursed energy and the curses let go of her. She stumbled back, her body shaking with exhaustion. She raised her sword, ready to die as she fell to the ground, her hand holding to a flesh of the dead spirit from earlier.

A last attempt to survive, focusing with all her might, for the food sake, injecting her cursed energy into it and around herself.

Suddenly she coughed blood as her hand glowed with energy, purple light almost blinding, the sensation of the flesh that she is holding, changing as if shape-shifting.

Opening her hand, trying to see what happened, she felt suprise upon seeing the flesh turned into.....effigies ? effigies or miniature figures of devils she once controlled, Guillotine, Fire and doll devils. Did they followed with her in this world? Though they looked different, as if cursed spirits than devils, or maybe shikigamies ?

Awakened innate technique : Starvation

[Cursed technique : Enslavement]

With her last will, she throw them at the spirits before blacking out completely....

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End of the chapter

Notes

Well ofc her powers would have restrictions and I wanted to let her have like something similar to the ten shadows, she will have 5 slaves shikigamies : Guillotine ,fire, doll ,cosmo, and falling!

She will have to tame falling tho, she'd be the next Mahoraga.

Anyway hope you enjoyed the chapter !

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