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“At first our defenses kicked in against her since this one is nothing but trouble, but she just kept pushing against the eternity between the bamboo forest and here like her life depended on it. At some point our interest got the better of us so we let her in to see what she wanted, and Seija was cradling you, mouthing something none of us could understand.” She explained, measuring the Oni’s pulse with her hand.
“There’s a betting pool for reasons why she put her life on the line for you, my money is on spousal abuse since that was the most comic. If so: congratulations, you beat the previous record holder for domestic brutality. Getting thrashed like you did and then tearing out your lover’s jugular vein is no mean feat.”
The Shrine Maiden’s threat to her: ‘If he dies, I’ll kill you’, did she really take it at face value? Could have just gotten out of sight and dumped me somewhere, but I guess she’d risk someone like Orin finding me or the Shrine Maiden may want her to prove I’m alive at some later point.
Wait, was that even the Red White Miko? I was delirious at that point, but I don’t think anyone else who protects humans could give an order with such conviction even Seija couldn’t invert it. Or is it just that she fits the mold in my head of who would, and my mind just filled in the blanks?
“If she’s not your one-and-only, I have some bad news. This drug requires her fresh blood to develop, so if you weren’t joined before, you two are bound by fate now.” Eirin said with a shrug. “She seems to have a vested interest in your survival at any rate, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Although it is annoying, do you know how hard it is to treat an Amanojaku? Anti-coagulants obviously increase clotting rather than stop it, but steroids? The trail and error this took…” She trailed off, bringing up many complex terms I couldn’t grasp.
I wait patiently for her to finish.
“… but back to you, your left arm took a while, but once we have that cage off it you should be able to use it as normal. It took many surgeries to extract the internal skin, graft it to your internal flesh, re-connect thrashed nerves and the like, but the result is that you should be able to use it as normal. Consider it a freebie, I’ve been thinking about how humans would work with an exoskeleton and it became a good model, you see Youkai wouldn’t be capable of…” She trails off again and it’s finally too much for me as I drift back to sleep.