The Legend Of Samurai

Ch 14: Underground Village

The sacred tree is a tree used as a medicine in the martial world of the Meiji Empire. Physicians who already have a name or famous often use the leaves of this tree as a treatment material.

But in view of the processing, if the public used to use it by soaking in hot water and then brew it and drink water from the leaves. While healers, just by mixing it with the inner energy they have.

In this forest there was only one sacred tree that grew, Akuma had gone up to pick up some leaves. Now he was on his way back to his shack house which he had been making for the past few decades.

She smiled kindly as people greeted her, but her footsteps stopped when she saw one of the women who looked very old with a slightly bent body on the porch of the hut.

"How are you Miss Ohori?" Akuma asked as he walked to the terrace of one of the huts.

On the porch of the hut there was a woman whose hair had all looked white. He smiled at Akuma.

"All right, Mr. Akuma." Reply to a middle-aged woman named Ohori.

"You look old, miss..." Akuma said with a faint smile.

"Haha.. already want to be favored sir, this is already the law of nature." Ohori also replied while chuckling.

The two of them looked very close, Each Akuma came out and climbed into the forest in search of fruit or animals. Akuma did not forget to stop by to meet the middle-aged woman.

In the past, Akuma who fell into the abyss felt bored and lonely because in the narrow hole of the ground there was nothing he could do or interact with someone. Finally, out of boredom, he decided to get someone to come in here to accompany him.

The first victim was Ohori. At that moment he heard a girl crying with a few footsteps of someone. According to Akuma, the girl was being chased by some people, so he decided to pull Ohori's hand and bring her into the abyss.

As more and more of the men he brought or roughly "kidn't" into the abyss, Akuma then intends to make a small Kampun by widening the land area and by making a hut from using trees and leaves in the forest as material.

And in a few years a small village located underground was made by him. He drained his energy in making it.

"Master wants to make what with some of those leaves." Ohori said softly, as she saw some leaves in the hands of the man in front of her.

"I have to treat someone, miss." Reply Akuma.

"Did you kidnap a hunter again?" Ohori raised her face and looked at Akuma.

Their four eyes met for a few seconds. Akuma turned his face a bit shy. "No, miss, I was helping a dying child in the woods."

"Kids? Is he still a teenager." Ohori was a little interested.

"Yes, madam. The boy was seriously injured, so I went upstairs to pick this leaf." Reply Akuma.

Ohori is interested in hearing the boy, she intends to meet him.

"Actually I'd really like to meet the boy you're talking about, but... I miss seeing life outside." Ohori's eyes slightly showed sadness.

"Sorry miss. I forgot to promise you that every time you ask to see the outside world I'll take you upstairs." Akuma said with a slightly wry smile.

"It's okay, sir, just treat the child who needs help first." Ohori said as she shook her head repeatedly.

"After I've treated him, soon I'll come here to see you again." Akuma.

Ohori smiled in response.

**

A child with sweat filling his body was lying weakly on a wooden bed. Akuma sat beside him, the leaves of the sacred tree he had mashed finely then he concocted with some ingredients.

The medicinal leaves he had given to some point on Kimura's back. He also drained a bit of his qi into Kimura's body to accelerate the efficacy of the leaf absorbed into his body.

"My knowledge of medicine is not very deep. But I'm sure after a few hours the flow of energy in this kid is sure to recover..." Akuma said while wiping the sweat on his forehead.

The heat inside his hut was rising.

"Ah. I promised Miss Ohori to see her after this..." Akuma got up from his seat intending to go to where the middle-aged woman was.

**

Kimura felt a tremendous pain all over his body, the pain was showing himself still alive.

"In..ma..na me?" Said slowly.

Kimura turned his posture and slowly opened his eyes, he saw a wooden roof that looked old. In addition to the pain, he also felt that he was lying on a wooden bed.

Kimura tried to move slowly up from where she was lying. He holds various objects or what is capable of making him walk. The cold air penetrated into his clothes when he opened the door where he was now, making Kimura's body shiver slightly.

"Is this a village...?"

In front of his eyes was seen lined up several huts, which were almost similar to where he was now. But he also still seems hesitant to describe where he is.

"Baahh..."

Kimura suddenly felt pain all over her body, she then went back to lying down because she felt no pain when standing up.

The pain throughout his body became more and more so when in a lying position, which made him lose consciousness again.

**

"Thank You Mr. Akuma..." Ohori looks teary.

"I've promised you, miss, to take you upstairs whenever she wants." Akuma recalled the time he first met this middle-aged woman in front of him.

The two of them were now in the middle of the forest, precisely under a Sakura tree. This tree only grows one in this forest and is located right in the middle of the forest.

This was the only entertainment that this middle-aged woman had.

"If only the man had not made a barrier in this forest. I'll take you to meet all your descendants." Akuma said as he looked silently at the tree in front of him.

The barrier he was referring to was the Sakura tree that was in front of him. He was only able to walk up to half the area of the forest and the tree as a marker of half its barrier.

Once he tried to pass through the barrier, but only a step walked suddenly he was thrown back like an invisible attack hit him from outside the barrier.

"Maybe my descendants don't know who I am sir." Ohori smiled bitterly.

"It looks like it is, but you still look pretty maybe they recognize you." Akuma slightly gave the spirit of this middle-aged woman beside him when saying that she looked sad.

Although Ohori already looked very old and the lines of wrinkles already filled her face. However, the aura of her beauty was still visible with her extremely white skin, her eyes narrow, with the shape of the round face that made her still look beautiful.

Ohori just smiled faintly in reply to Akuma's words.

Silence was created for a moment, both of them looked silently at the tree in front of him while feeling the fall of the leaves of the tree onto their faces.

"It's like we can't be here much longer, miss. I have to look at the child's development." Akuma said looking at Ohori.

"May I come with you, sir. To meet the boy." Reply Ohori.

"It's with pleasure, lady, but it's okay if I carry you again..." Akuma's tone was a little timid.

Akuma had actually carried Ohori a lot of times, when the woman wanted to go here. However, he still felt embarrassed.

"I'm tired of hearing your words, sir." Ohori smiled faintly as she walked and leaned against Akuma's body.

"Sorry miss..."

Akuma then flew over the trees holding Ohori, then down into the abyss.