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"I'll always be your twin.."
A wind blows across a tree, blow the leaves while a bird fill the nature their voice. The orange sky with a cloud make the view is too difficult to ignore,
during the time a performance is now held in the Sakai estate from the faction Messenger from the Sea to praise the Iswara of Hydro.
An actor and an actress play a theater with a shamisen as the sound of the performance.
A retainer, maid even the Lord and Lady and their twins watching performance with joy and calm.
**
"Then a blade strike the heart of Stolas, make the Iswara fell from the land of God to the land of Mortal..!" The voice of a man end the tale about the fighting between Belial and Stolas. His hand gesturing with his voice is stern, everyone who watching it with serious and hear carefully before the man slowly remain silent and the woman beside the man starts to sing.
"Far from the Tsushima Island, a child who'll become the Iswara is born to this humanity. She will bless this land with eternal prosperity and abundance in the name of Finality or in the name of Trickery..?" The woman sing steady, her hands play the shamisen intense and focus. Her lidded eyes look to the shamisen, her fingers meticulous pluck the strings of shamisen. A red leaves blows towards the performance, make the stage is almost fill by the red leaves.
The Lady sing along with the singer slowly while her head rest against the Lord's shoulder, her voice is so soft and calming for everyone who hear it in that time. Her hand reach his hand to soothing him, her eyes move her attention to the twins that hear the song with amaze and joy. Their eyes are blinked, their body sway slowly follow the melody of the shamisen.
Both eyes are meet and narrowed in happy, smile to each other. The wind blows the little sister's hair that makes look so majestic in the big brother's eyes while the woman continue to sing the song while the others sit on their knees and crossing their hands, listen to the song carefully. A samurai close his eyes and start to humming it quietly with his finger tapping repeatedly on his upper arm
"Looks like even a samurai would enjoy the performance too."
The samurai surpise with Yuriko's voice from behind him.
"Ah! Yuriko, i-i'm just enjoy the song not the performance.." The samurai tries to defend him nervously, a cold sweat rolling from his forehead to his cheek, Yuriko couldn't help but chuckles while hit the samurai's back little a bit hard that make the samurai choke up.
"Akh!"
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The woman ends the performance with a slowly fade sound of shamisen, everyone who watching that give applauses. The people that take a part in the performance bowing their body and say thanks to them. "Thank you for letting us for performance a theater for her, Lord Sakai." The man sit on his knees, bow to the head of clan Sakai with grateful. The Lord bowing back to him.
"You're welcome."
"Let us give you a 'gift'.."
"A 'gift'?"
The man reached for something from inside his kimono, as he find it immediately he offer it to him. A cloth with something 'expensive' inside the cloth, "What's inside this?" His hand reach the gift as the Lord asks to him with his hand already hold the 'gift'. "If you want to know it just open the cloth, my lord." He says with a smile, as the Lord open the cloth his eyes widened in shock, a shining light came from the gift that he hold. "...This-"
"That's the gem of Sakai, carved in the land of God by the God of Creation.."
The gem shaped like a water droplets with a symbol of Iswara of Hydro in the middle of the gem, the color of the gem is a navy blue. Everyone that see the gem is stunned how shine and sparkling the gem is, "No wonder why the Shogun release the decree of Iswara Hunting, they're just want to take the gem.." a maid with crossing her arms while looking at the gem, telling her opinion about the reason why shogun release the Decree of Iswara Hunting. A samurai beside her just give a chuckles, "I'm agree with your opinion.." He said, his eyes tell that the gem is too expensive for got touched by a samurai like him.
The twins questioning what happen at the nearby stage approaching with curious, passing everyone to see in there. As they're finally reach it the twins couldn't help as their eyes widened in amaze as see the gem that their father hold.
That thing is too shiny for their eyes.
"Ah, young lord and young lady are you about to see that gem?" Yuriko teased them with a smile, lowered her face to look at the twins. "Yes Yuriko! The gem is so shiny! I want to see it closely." With a sparkling eyes, Yusiko tell Yuriko to bring her up to her arms to see the gem closely. Yuriko give a chuckles then pick her to her arms and carry her, "Of course young lady, as you wish." Slowly, she's passing everyone to approach where's her father. As Yuriko finally approach her father she stop her step, Yusiko's hands tries to reach it with a sparkling eyes. "Father! I want tries to touch it!" With enthusiasm Yusiko asks her father to offer the gem to her.
The man and the father surprise with Yusiko's voice behind him, "Young lady..."
His father smile at her, "Go ahead, my daugther..." His hand offer the gem to his daughter, Yusiko amazed in awe offer her hands to touch the gem as her father give the gem to her.
The gem suddenly become more shiny, her hands feels a flow of power flowing through her blood and tip of her hair is glowing. Her big brother's eyes widened and his mouth open in amaze as he saw what happen right now.
"O, Hydro. Bless this mortality with your prosperity and guide us to your heaven, The Warrior from clan Sakai.." The People from the Temple from the Sea starts to reciting the prayers, clinched their hands with their eyes close. A confused look appear on Yusiko's face as she hears the people start to reciting a prayer but then her eyes wide and her mouth open in joy as she saw the gem on her hands become more shiny. "Mother! Father! Look! The gem is become more shiny and i feels something is pulsing so fast in me..!"
Her eyes suddenly widen.
Something pushing her chest so hard that even makes her feels hurt.
Something wrong is happening right now.
She's feels like her chest are got slashed.
**
"Mother..Father...It's..too cold.."
"I want to go home..."
"Father..."
Her breath are panting, it's even too hurt for just breath.
A field of snow in Kamiagata surrouding her body, her hands are covered by a gloves.
The Core of Hydro has been stolen by 'The General' Shikari Matsumae, Second rank Harbinger of Devils and now the Shogun army are hunting her now.
Her hand squeeze a snow with desperate,
She wants her 'third death' is happen right now.
In her semi-conscious state, her eye catch a man from Seekers Divinity fight against a Shogun samurai and threw him to frozen lake before he approach her in worried.
He is finally here.
"It's her! The Iswara of Hydro!"
"Are you sure it's her?"
"Yes i'm sure it's her! Look at the mark around her neck."
"The Finality possesses her too deep.."
"Don't die too fast young girl! "
"What is your nam-"
She's lost her consciousness before he finish his question..
**
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A cold breeze night wind in Komoda Beach blows the grass up the hills. There is four person riding a horses, watching from a far the samurai army to face the Mongol Empire even though greatly outnumbered.
"Try to convince him to retreat, the samurai wouldn't face a great defeat if they retreat.." A woman with black hair suggest to them, she just don't want the samurai army have to be humiliated by the outsiders."Samurai is too rigid, that make them predictable and easy to be divide.." The man starts to speak, wear a samurai armor with a emblem of clan Sakai. He is one of the elite samurai of clan Sakai.
The woman's face fall to the sorrow and her eyes were teary, "But i hope lord Sakai will understand the situation, i'll try to convince him." But the samurai change his mind and ride his horse towards the samurai army.
"We are riding to Toyotama if the Jito orders to charge!" The another woman with white hair order to them.
"Lord Sakai!"
Lord Sakai― no. Jin Sakai, Jin suddenly turn around his head and shock, his eyes wide with the appear of his samurai. "Haru..masa..?"
Harumasa galloped his horse and slow down his horse as he close to him. "Lord Sakai! i know this is might offend you but please, retreat.." He told him with lowering his head and his voice, "You were greatly outnumbered, for the sake of--"
"We're not going to retreat, Haru." Jin cut his word.
"But lord Sakai -"
"That's the order, Harumasa."
Harumasa held his tongue, bit his bottom lip. He don't want to argue with his lord and that was unnecessary to convince him if he is still firm with his belief. After all he is his lord, his father, Kazumasa promise to him that he'll make him become one of his strongest samurai but then he die, Jin fulfill his father's promise to make him as his samurai fourteen years ago. He took a deep breath before bowed. "Forgive me, my lord.."
"Samurai!"
"Do you surrender?"
"Cowards without honor deserves no mercy."
"No mercy!"
"Open charge!"
As the Jito orders to charge, Jin rush into the battle. Leave Harumasa with disappointed and immediately gallop his horse to regroup again. "Looks like he fail convince him to retreat.."
"We are riding to Toyotama now!" The woman with white hair gallop her horse and followed by two people behind her, Harumasa gallop his horse even faster to reach the group. "I hope we're not late..."
The woman face become anxious while biting her bottom lips.
"Please please please please please-"
"Lady!"
Her vision turn back to the reality as Harumasa calls her, "Haru.. you back."
He nods slowly, something disturb his mind that makes him uneasy and she notices it. "You want to join him?" Her question makes his eyes widen in shock, offers him to leave the group and join samurai army. "Lady.. I-" A sweat rolling from his forehead to his cheek, showing his hesitate.
"Don't worry about us, go."
As the woman give him permission to leave the group, Harumasa turn around his horse towards the battlefield.
"Typical samurai but that makes them..."
"Different."
Harumasa gallop his horse and attack every Mongols in the front of him with his horse.
"Lord Sakai!"