Shinigami

We had no idea the king of Amida was standing there as we approached the halls of the house because we didn't know. When he gave a small, self-satisfied smile, I realized why he wanted to come. I couldn't care less about them, and we prayed to God for help and protection.

We were walking after praying to the sun goddess on a dark side of the road with no torches when I began to whimper because my legs had grown weak.

"It's only a few steps down," Hina said quietly, and I put my finger to my lips as he was about to object.

As we approached the balcony, the minister of the kingdom broke the silence and announced, with a sigh, the people who were terrified. "Here lies the newly crowned king of this kingdom; he has saved our kingdom.

People who were shown spears and swords chanted angrily, "King Nomura the Great and Powerful!" We notice something strange hopes as we hear people shouting."

"What are they up to?" my sister yelled.

We saw as some men dragged people who refused to kneel before the new king and beheaded them with a strike; I couldn't watch this because my sister vomited when she saw the scenes. People began screaming and fleeing, but were stopped by the army.

When Nomura raised his arms, the cries stopped. The commander, Shigaru, then took the floor and explained how the wealthy villas would become Amida property, as well as instructing the wealthy to hand over their jewels to the soldiers when they visited.

"Greed!" Hina yelled angrily. "The king will force them to pay for the bricks they're walking on."

The people below us were overjoyed, including the men who were willing to pay him two-thirds of the value of their villas to keep what was rightfully theirs.

He descended the steps, flanked by Sora and another soldier, with a scoff and instructions to be escorted. A path through the hall was cleared as the citizens took a step back.

"Follow me," Shigaru said gruffly, and I wondered if this was the moment someone tried to kill him. My father would have risked everything to do it, but nobody moved as we moved through the terrified silence.

The king smiled, but as we approached the palace, his steps became shaky.

A woman screamed in the courtyard. She dashed toward the tyrant king and exclaimed, "Oh, my Lord!" in a single, flawless motion. "There's breaking news!" forty soldiers rushed to join shields.

"Drop your shields," he said.

Between the men, I caught a glimpse of her face and noticed the young maid Reina fleeing. "My lady, your mother! You are required to attend. She's going to perish!"

Shigaru looked to Nomuta when the soldiers parted and we ran through the house, and neither of them stopped us. I'm not sure who followed. Maybe there were a hundred men, or maybe we were alone when we arrived at my mother's open door.

"Get the hell out!" Hina cursed the maids. "Move!"

Inside, there was a deafening silence. My mother, dressed in her kimono, sat quietly on a couch in the center of the room, the candlelight illuminating her skin. Kaguya, her maid, sat on the floor, her head resting on two pillows, as if sleeping.

"Mother?"

"Mother!"

The king approached, They crept forward. When Hina didn't move, she yelled. My sister and I ran up to her.

"Please, Mother," I begged. Reina, who shook her big sister Kaguya's shoulders, smiled while sleeping as she and her mother lay still.

Shigaru crammed himself into the doorway behind us.

Hina snatched Kaguya's hands from Reina's grasp, but the aged fingers that had taught me to draw had turned cold. When I grabbed her arm, there was no pulse. Nomura was standing in the doorway, surrounded by soldiers, when I turned around. I rushed at him, screaming and hitting his legs, while Shigaru grabbed me and handed me to Sora. My sister grabbed me and tried to take me away by biting his hands, but I was able to free myself.

The doctor rushed to my side, feeling for my mother's heartbeat before bending down and discovering a broken glass with a foul odor inside.

"It's poison," he coughed and smelt. Hina screamed and tried to wake them up as I knelt down in my knees.Sora who was bitten jumped to his feet quickly. He looked at the king.

He gave the command. "You two shouldn't be here; the stench will kill you; everyone out; please close this door; everyone will be affected."

"No!" "I moved closer to my mother," I yelled, "and I don't want to leave."

Sora, on the other hand, shrugged. "She's already gone."

You have no idea what we're dealing with!" Hina began to cry.

"She's no longer with us," Nomura stated.

"She isn't, you murderers! Leave us alone!" Hina screamed.

"Leave us! Leave us!" we shouted

Sora took my sister's arm in his, motioned for the maids to take us, and told the doctor to check with Mother. As we waited at the chamber's entrance, Hina was irritated.

"How come, mother?" I wrapped my arms around her and waited for the doctor.

A sweat-drenched doctor arrived. My sister remained silent, and I could feel my heart pounding as I stood there staring at her. My sister was the only one who could see my mother because she was one of our kingdom's royal ladies and had been given permission to investigate. She approached me and hugged me because I could tell we were orphans from the look on her face.

"Will our mother be buried next to our first father, as she stated she wanted?" Hina asked quietly.

The king sighed and lifted his chin. "I will plan my sister's funerals, for this oblivious brother; please allow me to perform her final rites as a family."

We had just finished her funeral and were about to leave when I noticed him crying next to my first.

When Sora saw us being led to the carriage, he turned to me and Hina and asked, "Will you really keep the children alive?"

Sora stands behind Mother's tomb.The king's gaze was fixed on me, and he turned to face Hina. "The girl is lovely; her mother gave her to me. She will be of marriageable age in a few years and will be able to please her husband, and her son has stated that he will join our army. They no longer have anything but me. Keeping them alive will be extremely beneficial to the kingdom."

"Certainly, Sir," the Shigaru replied.

As we were led into the carriage. My sister and I, as well as Reina, were chained. When an attack occurred, it was my father's men who attempted to free us. As he was released, they led us to the boat, where Shigaru suddenly attacked and attempted to board. As he landed inside, he saw me lying there and approached me, where Hina stabbed him in the leg from behind. As she tried to flee, Shigaru caught her legs, but I smashed his face with a sake bottle and stabbed him in the throat with a broken shard of glass, killing him.

My sister hugged me tight as we cried about the cruelty of the world. Sora tried to kill us as we stayed together, but Reina pushed him and was stabbed by him for interfering, and with rage, he came to us and said, "I don't care whether you live or die, your father took everything from me, turned me into slaves, and now you're going to pay," he shouted, raising his sword.

My sister, who knew how to wield the sword, used her water power to attack him and try to protect me by covering me with a water bubble from the river before fighting him, but she was no match for him because he used his fire power. He blinded her with a blaze and broke the sword, burning her. He pushed her to the ground, spitting his blood, and stabbed her through the heart.

"Sister!...." "Please don't leave me," I screamed as I ran up to her and hugged her.

"Stay strong," my sister said as she rubbed my face, and with a touch, her hands fell and she was no longer cold.

"Tsk, drama, drama," Sora scoffed as I hugged her, "it's better now to kill you."

I was filled with rage after hugging my sister, and I felt a powerful force approaching. Sora was shaken by the amount of power because he couldn't figure out what strange power was coming.

"Impossible, the Akuma power, it's not true," Sora screamed as the men on board tried to kill me, but more who came close were killed by my power.

He couldn't breathe because the power was suffocating him. I now understand why the reaper sent me here in this new life; I was the agent of death, the Shinigami.

I drew the dagger from the ground and approached each soldier, slitting their throats. As I approached Sora, who was struggling with fear, I said, "See you in Hell," and stabbed him in the skull.

I knelt and began crying as I searched the bodies. I waited a day in the boat for a safe landing spot, where I slowly dragged my sister and Reina and buried them. I said my prayers and left the graves, but before leaving with everything I could get, such as the oil in the boat, I set fire to the enemies, giving them at least the dignity of burning in the depths of hell, and then I left the area.

I spent days traveling as the three-year-old boy, hiding from the people and living with food thrown on the ground to conceal my identity. With my power gone, I kept trying, but it didn't go well because the food was stale. I collapsed and fell next to a house as I became ill.

I awoke in a hut where a lady was cooking, feeling like it was all a waste of my life.

"Oh you woke up child," the lady said. I couldn't respond, but she kept smiling and bringing me food, "Here have this porridge."

I couldn't accept anything from strangers, but I was hungry, so I started eating right away and felt happy as something filled my stomach.

The lady smiled and asked, "What is your name?"

"Shi ..." I was about to reveal my identity, but in order to save her, I needed to protect her at all costs if the Amida soldiers attempted another attack, so I replied, "Shin, my name is Shin," aka Shinigami.