78 His Glorious Return
As Eino looked her opponent, so did the unknown sorcerer. Although inexperienced, Eino understood that right now she was at a disadvantage and the one who was most likely to lose this battle and to worsen her odds, her friend being here only made her chances of winning plummet.
The unknown sorcerer before them sighed and looked at her classmate who ran away. "A civilian? Why didn't you just get her out of the veil that way she doesn't participate?"
"We can get out?" Eino asked surprised.
"So you really know nothing about what's happening." The sorcerer sighed as she had hoped to team up but looking at Eino now, she understood that someone like her would be incompetent. Only sorcerers of past ages were actually worth teaming up, the rest were simply points to them. "What a waste of time, I sensed a sorcerer here so I had hoped that they were from the Heian era or Eda era but it seems that you are just a sorcerer who knows nothing."
Her hair turned into drills once more and shot at Eino who responded once more by making a wall of clay. The wall blocked it but Eino found them to be drilling through her clay and then pierce through homing in at her.
'So the distance and contact don't matter to her control? This is annoying.' Eino thought before using her two swords to cut the two drills coming at her in half. But even after cutting it in half, they were still moving towards her and one of them managed to hit her shoulder spurting blood from it. Though the wound was very superficial, it still stung.
'It hurts but its not as bad due to me training my tolerance of pain. I guess she's not the type to let their opponent go so I'll have to win this fight.' Eino thought but she knew that she couldn't win, at least not in a one on one.
"Give me-"
A sudden voice appeared in her head.
It felt as if someone was whispering right next to her ears with a distorted voice and her eyes glowed green.
"Give me-"
The voice kept repeating the same thing. Again and again, the same thing was said in her head making her head feel as if it was tearing itself apart. Eino grabbed her head and gritted her teeth suffering from the headache.
'What the hell is this pain?!' Eino thought as she felt the need to rip out her face.
Her opponent noticed this and took the chance to attack. Her hair swirled around Eino trapping her in a dome. Despite this though, Eino couldn't focus on her opponent. Her mind was constantly had voices talking to her.
"Give me."
"Give me."
Those words kept being repeated endlessly.
"Shut up, shut up!" Eino shouted in frustration pushing the voices away and used her clay to form a dome protecting her from the hair strands attacking around her.
"Give me."
The voice came back but this time it was only one. One voice who said it calmly, and gave a sense of familiarity to her. She managed to recover herself and take a deep breath.
"What do you want?" She asked at the unknown being that was in her head. All the while having the strands of hair turning into drills, slowly piercing through the shield. Eino struggled to maintain the dome.
"Tell me what you want! If you don't have anything to say then get out of my head. I'm busy enough fighting for my life!" She yelled at the voice as she could now see the hair going in the dome.
The voice finally spoke back.
"Give me it all."
"What?" Eino asked puzzled at what she had just heard.
Eino was baffled at what she heard but she would have to put her attention towards her opponent. They had managed to breach through her defense and now the hair were slithering and wrapping themselves over her.
"Damn it!" Eino cursed as she was restrained. She couldn't move her limbs.
"Curse your foolishness in death." The incarnater said as a drill was formed in front of her spinning itself as rapid speed. Her hands were tied up making her unable to muster her clay, she couldn't even speak now due to her mouth being covered.
But before she could even think that she was going to die, her vision warped and Eino found herself in a foreign place.
What she had found before her was walls made of amber with four pillars made out of marble in each direction and a white flame dangling at the top.
At the opposite side of her was a stairs leading to a throne made of what seemed to be clouds and water not flowing down like gravity should make it do so. But just staying there in a still state, with no movements.
Eino sighed as she laid down on the floor. Exhausted from everything. "Just what is going on today, it was just supposed to be a study group session. Now it turns out centuries old people are fighting everyone, what a terrible story."
"You've got that right, old folks should just leave power to the new generation." The same voice echoed throughout the room.
"Huh, who?"
"Don't tell me you forgot what I told you. I am you and you are me." The sound of footsteps were heard behind her and as she looked back, she couldn't help but stand up in shock.
"You're-"
With his light blue colored kimono, white obi and wooden sandals, his colorful bright blue hair and green eyes that glowed in the darkness. Eino couldn't help but smile.
"Arai!" Eino said before running towards him and giving him a heartwarming hug.
"It's good to see you again." Arai said as they embraced each other as old friends.
"What happened? I felt my connection with you being severed."
"Not severed, just joined but right now let's focus bug surrounding us." Arai said before he placed his hand on her cheeks and made contact between their heads.
Eino scratched her cheek in embarrassment. "That woman? Yeah, she's a bit too much for me."
"Don't worry about it, these old bastards are going to regret coming to our era. So I'm sorry Eino, but I'll be borrowing your body for a moment. So please, repeat after me."
Eino had no idea what he was talking about but obeyed and closed her eyes. She trusted him more than anyone in the world and knew he would do no harm against her.
"Die!" The sorcerer said as her hair turned to a javelin and aimed at Eino's neck.
But Eino's body stayed still, unmoving.
Her body didn't move, but so did everything else.
The sorcerer had no idea what was happening but it felt as if chains were binding very being. As if her mind was saying to kill this woman but her body refusing to move. It was such an odd feeling. The world itself seemed to be stopping her movements. It felt like she was losing her ego.
[World,]
She witnessed it.
[Heavens,]
The return-
[Chosen One,]
of the-
[Rightful ruler.]
He had arrived to reclaim what was his.
The incantations have been chanted. Before her very eyes, it seemed as if light from the Heavens fell down to the girl's body even though it was midnight. Nothing she was seeing made any sense.
That was when Eino's body started moving and her eyes bore witness to the overwhelming cursed energy being exuded by this little girl. Cursed energy ran rampant everywhere, enough to break through the bindings shackling Eino and breaking down the javelin aimed at her head.
[Reversal Technique: Return]
"What-"
The woman could not finish what she wanted to say before the clay dome shattered creating a gust of wind blowing at her.
She felt a pain coming from her chest and looked down to see where her heart was supposed to be was a hole from the front and back. Her bones and muscle tissue was being shown for the world to see.
"What was it that you said?" Eino's voice came from behind the sorcerer and there she was standing with a beating heart in her palm.
Her palm contracted and crushed the heart making the blood splatter all over her face. "'Curse your foolishness in death', I guess it's time for you to take your own advice."
The sorcerer did not even have the time to retort before falling to the ground dead. It had not even been a day and her incarnation proved to be useless against a modern day sorcerer.
Little did she know that she was not the only incarnated sorcerer in this battle.
Isao Arai had come back to life!
He wiped the blood off of him and looked towards one of the buildings.
"You really think you can watch without my permission." He said before gathering the clay in his hands and compressing it into a thin needle.
The moment he finished saying that, he was able to hear the sound of running inside one of the surrounding buildings. A sorcerer had been watching their battle waiting for their moment to swoop in and kill them.
"Dumbass." With a snap of his finger, the needle darted towards the building ripping through the brick walls and piercing the head of the sorcerer. A faint cry was heard before disappearing altogether.
"10 points is awarded!" Kogane said as he appeared next to them.
The next moment, he opened his eyes revealing the unnatural glowing green in them. The cold gaze he had when looking at the corpses completely contradicted the cheerful Eino whose body belonged to. He took a deep breath and expired letting all the air out of her lungs. His gaze then looked at the full moon in the sky shining as brightly as the sun.
His thoughts turned to a familiar white haired man who was currently sealed away.
He was not going to be next Gojo, but something far greater.
"Throughout the Heavens and Earth, I alone am the chosen one."
