Missions (2nd Half)
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Limit Six: Missions
(2nd Half)
…The Continuation:
Pagkatapos kong maglabas ng galit at ng sama ng loob sa pader, pumasok na rin ako ng mansyon. Nakita ko sa staircase sina Erinne at Gino na naglalambuchingan. -___- Si Cloud naman pababa ng hagdanan na may hawak na mahabang nabalutan ng tela na ibinato sa’kin.
“Eh?”
“Your sword.”
Lahat na ng mata nakuha namin. Wala na akong pakialam kung sa amin nakatuon ang atensyon nila. Dali-dali kong binuksan ang tela. Lumitaw kaagad ang scabbard ko. Hinatak ko yung handle. Oh my!
“Seiyyaaaaaaa!!” *u*
“Nabaliw?” -___-
“Mukhang naaning na.” (-. - )
“Sino si Seiya, Serinna ko?”
“Malay.” =___=
Si Seiya ay ang espada ko. (^----^) Si Sasame naman ay ang tape recorder journal ko. (^--------^)
“Can I take a good look?”
Napapitlag ako. Sa pagkaaliw ko kay Seiya, di ko namalayang lumapit si Rey sa akin. Gusto ko sanang ihambalos yung scabbard ko sa kanya. Nabu-bwisit kasi talaga ako sa kanya eh. -___-++
Pero syempre, sibilisado akong tao kaya mahinahon akong tumango at iniabot si Seiya sa kanya.
He took Seiya out of the scabbard. I just watched him carefully touch the edge of the sword. “Muramasa… long sword. Isn’t it?”
Well… WOW. As in WOW! This man, how can he know?
“Wait Rey,” maski si Cloud natigilan. “What Muramasa long sword? Do you mean Muramasa… the one… that Japanese swordsmith?”
“Ay teka alam ko ‘yan.” biglang epal este sabad ni Gino. “Yung demon blade ba?”
“Tange hindi.” Isa pa ‘tong si Xena. “Video game yun eh.” -___-
Ang adik nila. (_ _ǀ|)
“Actually, a Muramasa sword is…” Amber looked at me suspiciously. “…rare.” ^__^
Straight from silently observing the sword, nag-angat ng paningin si Rey at tumingin sa akin. “How did you retrieve this sword?”
Hindi ako sumagot. Itinaas niya si Seiya at ipinakita sa akin ang isang bahagi niyon na kanina pa niya pinagmamasdan. “You didn’t changed the signature. Neither did you removed it. Indication that this sword isn’t a forged one.”
“Maybe even the signature is forged, onii-san.” Salo ni Erinne.
Hindi ko maalis ang tingin kay Rey. He’s like challenging my gaze. Really wanting to know where the sword is retrieved. Nakikinig silang lahat. Kung itatago ko, baka akalain nilang hindi ako loyal. Tsk.
“The signature looks faded and deep, indicating that this… stood up almost from a billion years ago.”
“You’re right, it’s a Muramasa long sword straight from Sengo Muramasa’s hands.”
Narinig kong nag-s**t si Cloud. Everyone looks at us in a puzzling state. While Rey is rather amused and a half smile formed in his lips. Ano kayang itsura niya kung ngingiti talaga siya? Lagi kasing blangko itsura. Tss.
“So how? Can you tell me?”
“There’s three swords that survives the widely destruction of Muramasa blades from sixteenth century and up to this day. The Knight Empire Organization hired me on August 2001, my very first official battle as an agent. They sent me to Kanagawa Prefecture to moderate the auction of the national weapons retrieved. I found out that a certain Kiminobu Tokugawa held the auction as a disguise to destruct the blades at once.”
“Tokugawa?”
“Tokugawa…” kunot-noong ulit ni Rey. “Tokugawa… Toku… gawa… Tokugawa Ieyasu?”
“A descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu.”
“Teka nga lang mga alien!” pasigaw na pagpapatigil ni Gino sa topic namin. “Pwede n’yo bang ma-isplika muna kung sino si Ieyasu na ‘yan tsaka kung anong meron sa Muramasa blades?”
Hinarap ko sila. As expected, mukha nga silang nakikinig kanina pa. “Tokugawa Ieyasu is the first Shogun in 1603. He—”
“Just finish your story first before you answer them.” Ang atat naman neto ni Rey Ashton. o_o
“Ang daya mo oy!”
“Kaya nga, Rey! Pag-kwentuhin mo muna!”
Rey eyed me. “Don’t listen to them.”
Napahinga ako ng malalim. “I ran late to the event. They destructed all katana and yari blades before I can saved it. But three… miraculously survived.”
“What are the three swords?”
“Tenro, Shibien and…” I looked at Seiya. Napangiti ako. “…Seiryuu.”
“Tenro, Shibien, Seiryuu. Bakit tatlo lang?” wow nagtatagalog siya. :Dv “Shouldn’t they be destroyed?”
“That’s why I said it survived.”
“Bakit nga?”
“The signature. Pagkatapos maapula ng apoy, all I found out was the three swords still edible. I searched for the other swords na kasama sa nasira. As it turns out, all swords are signatured yet removed already. If not, pinalitan. Only the three swords remained with the original signatures. So I drove it back to the Knights Empire.”
Akala ko maku-kuntento na siya, pero sa mga tingin niya sa’kin mukhang naamoy niyang may iba pa bukod sa ikinuwento ko na. “And then what happened?”
“That’s it.”
“You lie.”
“How’d you say so?”
“Malikot ang lens ng mga mata mo kapag nagsisinungaling ka. If you’re telling the truth, it would steady fixed at me.”
Natigilan ako. My eyes widened at him. Did he just… did he just studied me? What the hell? “You… what are you?”
“Tell me everything, Sky. What happened after you brought the sword to Knights?”
Naglikot na ang mata ko. Nilibot ko sila ng tingin. Oh s**t. Ayokong mag-mukhang exotic, tae naman eh. 0> Takte ang landi ko naman. xD
“And then?” ano ba naman mhen! Di ka pa ba naman kuntento? Gusto mo ba talagang isagad ko pa ng todo-todo? Takte naman eh!
“Hay jusko po. -___- Four days later I was kicked out from Knights. I wielded the sword, I killed five persons, injured six personnels. Injured even myself. That’s when I decided to be just a mere bounty hunter instead of being an agent.”
“Why did you killed them?” puzzled na tanong ni Amber.
Napapikit ako and then sighed. “Call me crazy. I really don’t know why. Nung mga panahon na ‘yon, parang nasiyahan akong mahawakan yung espada. The feel of the handle in my palm, it soothes right through me. The feeling of swinging it, the sight of blood stained on it… I really can’t understand.”
Napamulat ako nang marinig ko ang tunog ng pagsarado ni Rey sa scabbard. He stared at it for seconds. Then he nodded like he understands something. “Muramasa blades aren’t called cursed blades for no reason.”
“What do you mean, onii-san?” usisa ni Erinne.
“Sengo Muramasa, the swordsmith, is known for being…” he paused, I think he’s thinking of a fit word to say it. “a violent, ill-balanced mind, almost a mad one I think? They believe that whatever it is that a swordsmith are, supposedly it was passed on their blades and swords. Muramasa blades are extraordinarily sharp and was often used by Japanese soldiers and even the Tokugawa Shogunate. Muramasa blades became allegedly ‘cursed’ when Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun, forbid the use of it due to misfortunes that befall on them.”
“Misfortunes like what?” wow, pati si Eric taray nakikinig. Imba.
“Like his grandfather being struck down by a Muramasa blade, like his father being killed by a Muramasa sword, like Ieyasu himself injured by a wakizashi Muramasa, like his son was killed by a Muramasa katana. The last that sealed the Muramasa using was a Muramasa yari used by his general. And then Ieyasu confiscated all the Muramasa sword.”
Bigla-bigla naman kung tumawa ‘tong si Savier. -___- “Adik ba sila? Sabi mo nga di ba, lahat ng weapons nila eh puro Muramasa swords, so natural, madalas na ang gamit sa pagpatay eh yung mga sandatang gamit nila. Common sense lang!”
Baaahhh. May punto. :D
“Still. Hindi pa rin maitatanggi na may dahilan sila para i-ban ang paggamit ng Muramasa blades. And now, look how infamous it is. Though, I don’t think many would agree to the story as of now since sabi mo nga, it’s common sense. Iba ang era no’n sa era ngayon. Stories are often made out of stupidity. But then, legends wouldn’t be there kung walang pinag-uugnayan.”
“From what I heard,” Cloud crossed her arms to her chest. “A Muramasa blade, once drawn, it has to draw blood before it can be returned to its scabbard, even forcing its wielder to wound himself or commit suicide. It creates bloodlust to those who wields it. And perhaps… Sky can tell us about it?”
Napaatras ako ng konti nung sabay-sabay silang tumingin sa akin. “Err… ah… eh… he-he. Ano ‘yun?” :D?
“Paano naging Seiya ang Seiryuu? How do you manage to stood up from the bloodlust?”
Ngumiti ako at kinuha si Seiya mula sa kanya.
Dear Sasame,
May mga bagay na hindi kayang ipaliwanag kahit pa ni Einstein o ng kahit na sinong pinaka-matalinong tao sa mundo. Basta ang alam ko, mahal na mahal ko si Seiya. Siya ang kasama ko throughout almost my whole existence.
Kaya siya si Seiya.
The one who wields Seiya,
Death Hunter
- Writer
