Onihunter Yuna

08 Visitor

Yuna winced, pulled up and stared at a ... her eye widened in terror. A monster was in her room! Hastily she looked after the patients bell to get help. Panicked, she pressed the button over and over, while she didn't let the monster out of her sight. It sat there relaxed on a chair opposite of her and looked at her.

"I turned off the bell and disconnected all the instruments from you. Your reaction confirms my guess."

The voice sounded familiar to her, but not this face. Pointy teeth lined up in the mouth and glowing red eyes looked at her. Two small horns protruded from its forehead, like a goat. Wild tousled hair covered the entire head. The skin was yellowish and leathery. The monster was wearing ordinary clothes.

"You killed one of the beasts, right?"

She remembered that she lay on her back in the garden. A beast was on top of her, tried to bite her and ... indeed, it was impaled on the sword that Yuna held strenuously.

"Yes.", said Yuna.

"Oh my god ..."

"Who are you?"

"Come on, monster. Do I look that strange?"

"Yoshiro-san?!" The monster rose from the chair and took a step closer. "Stay where you are!", shouted Yuna agitated.

"Really?"

"How should I know that you're not lying?"

"Your father was Kensuke Masuda. Your mother was named Kaori. You had three sisters: Yui, Mai and Ayu. Your birthday is the 9th of October."

"That's not enough!"

He sighed. "Really? Well ... last year to your 15th birthday, we conducted a tea ceremony. You were complaining the whole time how boring it was. Is that enough?"

Yuna looked at "Yoshiro" open-mouthed. As she stared at him, his features slowly turned human. It was really Yoshiro.

"That's a trick!"

"It's your trick.", said Yoshiro.

"My trick?!"

"It's hard to explain. And this is the wrong place for it. Your house was blown up. For the authorities is a broken gas line responsible. Case closed."

"That's not true!"

"I know."

"What's going on here? Why ... why do you look so strange?"

"As I said: This is the wrong place. In short, when you had killed the beast, you were transformed ..."

"TRANSFORMED?!"

"... Let me finish, please. We have little time."

Yuna nodded.

"First ..." Yoshiro came over to her and hugged her tightly. "I'm so sorry, Yuna."

The girl returned the hug gently. Somehow she felt that it was really Yoshiro. "Tell me more, uncle."

Yoshiro nodded, let go of her and took some distance to the blue-haired again. He had already made up a story, that the girl could bare. He hoped so.

"The transformation has left you with new abilities. It ensures that you can see the Oni."

"See the Oni? Demons?"