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Chihiro hammers away the glowing stick slowly morphing into something too complicated to be called a gun. He grunts. He can't wipe his brows. He's sweating hard.
He continues hammering. He's putting all of his strength into it. The intensity is wild. He needs to carefully observe the rifle he wants to make. He'd surpass his father... without being overcome by his shadows. Everything has led him to one conclusion. The new Enten should be a sniper rifle so he can assassinate his uncle no matter where he is in the world.
"Gah!" Chihiro grunts, feeling his muscles strain, but he keeps hammering away at the rifle. It's slowly taking shape. "I'm going to... kagura... on my bachi... Farewell, Akemura."
From the distance, Akemura sneezes, sensing a disturbance. Did a younger person use his first name with no honorifics?
"That can't be... Who would say that?" Akemura mutters.
Chihiro just grunts, unaware of this, as he hammers away at his sniper rifle. "This... is truly... our Kagurabachi!"
It feels like the bones might pop out of him. He grinds his teeth together.
"It's... hard work..." Chihiro feels a sweat drop over his eyelid but the fire evaporates it instantly. "The datenseki...! The ores my father hid for us! It's because... He thought... Enten... our Enten... if made with ignorance... by me... It might... need... a new..." He pants and hammers away more. "A new sword... when my eyes are fully open! Well, dad, do you see me now! I have looked into the abyss of despair and it stared back!"
Chihiro throws away his hammer and tosses the hot sniper rifle into water to cool down.
"It's time... for me... to kill Akemura," Chihiro says and he takes out the sniper rifle.
Akemura in this moment where he sneezes has his guard down.
Chihiro pulls the trigger.
BAM!!
A gold fish shaped bullet swims straight through Akemura's heart.
"Oh... I got... kagura... bachi'd on... by my nephew? No... by my secret love child... the one I had with Kunishige... since Kunishige cheated... on me and my sister... No... We looked alike... so he never could tell who he knocked up whenever he was drunk, Rokuhira eyes or not." Akemura sniffles. "Chihiro... I'm your REAL..." He coughs up blood and dies.
"Huh? Huuuh?!" Chihiro's eye has seen Akemura's bloodied lips move. "No... It can't be... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"