Marvel at my strength!

“I see. I don’t know your friend, but I think he must like your friendship. You two are like childhood friends”. It is strange for Okita to imagine an oni as a child. Children are innocent and fragile, oni are malicious and evil. They are basically opposite beings.

“My loyalty remains with the Shinsengumi. They are my childhood friends. I will follow them until the end”. Okita was born in a turbulent time. A time when there was the emperor and the shogun. A warrior should choose who is their lord. The Shinsengumi chose the Shogun, but to Okita this is an insignificant detail. The only important thing for Okita is the Shinsengumi. 

“There are humans who believe and follow the law of the strongest”. Compared to oni, vampires and other races, humans are very weak. Okita is not afraid to admit it. That is why the samurai believes that humans should not follow this law. “I think the law that humanity must follow is the one that says the strong must protect the weak. We are different from other races. We risk our lives, so the weak can live in peace”. And for Okita, this is what makes her proud to be human.

“It feels like a faraway memory, to think of when we were human. It was a different time for both of us. In my case, I was more innocent and naive. It was a time before I learned the darkness in human hearts could distort so utterly.’

He listens to her speak, nodding a bit.

“Pretty sure you know that better than I do. He’s your friend, not mine.”

“Such a bore. It is not as if I am asking you to surrender your core to me. Ah, hahaha… unless you want to, that is~.”

“That would be thrilling… I wonder how it would feel to have you slice into me. I might even die, how interesting would that be? 

Come now, you’re such a gorgeous specimen it’s a crime to not let me look!”

“You know exactly what kind of stuff. Don’t make me say it.”

“You should deny it! Don’t give Belial the idea he’s right! He isn’t!”

“Just stuff…?”

“I have been so good for the captain lately, you should reward me~. Let me take a close look at you so I can record all the details properly.”

“So? My best friend bit his mother in the neck and then beheaded her and started a civil war against his cousin. He also killed another friend. And I still don’t like Belial. You know, he thinks we’re doing stuff together.”

“How…? How you like this bastard? I don’t want to have him around. He’s getting all worked up over peeking into my private life… He’s the prime example of an pervert.”

“That’s something different! You’re not making fun of me like he does! He makes me so angry, just killing him wouldn’t be enough to make things better. You’re strong, right? Get rid of him!”