Death?

"Don't worry about anything, my dear. Once I assimilate your body, I'm going to shatter nature's hold on you and the confines of mortality...

You just need to be a good girl and let me take over hmmm?"

Letting out a smile, she signaled to the cursed spirit who was butchering humans and without wasting time, it rushed forward and grabbed Ieiri's figure before laying her down on the altar and chaining her to it.

A glistening year dripped down her cheek, as she closed her eyes. There was nothing she could do at the moment and she knew it. Even if she had her strength how long would she last against a bonafide Special Grade with centuries of experience?

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Meanwhile, rushing through the forest on full speed, Kenshin with his Rinnegan active couldn't help but furrow his brows in confusion and anger.

While the intensity of the cursed energy kept increasing with every distance they traversed, he still had a hard time seeing it through, as if it was imbued with a unique property to keep it obscured from prying eyes, like some sort of domain.

*AWOOOOO!*

The next moment, Silver howled and stopped in its tracks before it began to growl angrily, and right on cue, multiple humongous cursed spirits instantly appeared, hiding within the shadows.

'Oh? why the hell are second grades during our here in the middle of a forest? Could their presence be related to the mysterious cursed energy?'

Thinking to himself, he jumped off the wolf with a solemn expression and summoned a long blade into his right hand.

"Alright, newsflash!..."

Hoisting the katana into a stance, Kenshin's Rinnegan flared with energy as he readied himself.

"The good news is, I'm in a bit of a hurry...Thr bad news is..."

*SLASH!!!*

Before he even finished his statement, he blasted forth with his full speed, leaping towards them with full explosive power. He looked like a fly compared to those gigantic cursed spirits, however, size was not always a determinant of strength.

Waving his sword like a samurai, multiple slashes swept out, before he landed gracefully and turned around, and the next moment, blood immediately burst out, and the gigantic cursed spirits slumped to the ground in pieces.

Rubbing his forehead in annoyance, he patted the wolf, about to continue with the journey when he instantly sensed a vicious aura hiding from within the shadows, one that was oddly familiar to him.

"Aren't you going to come out? I don't have all day..."

Materializing a log spear in his hand, Kenshin hurled it towards that spot. Backed by immense force, the spear tore through the air at breakneck speeds, however right as it was about to hit target, a familiar grotesque creature walked out with vapor rushing in and out of its snout.

"What? You've come back for revenge? Sorry, I don't have time to play..."

Kenshin rolled his eyes and materialized his three sectioned cudgel.

Now that he thought about it, he really had to give it a name, cause it looked so cool.

"MoThEr dEvOuR pUnY sOrCeRer, Oni dEvOuR LiTtlE mAn!!!!"

Pointing right at him, the oni let out a screech and pounded its chest with its arms, as Kenshin furrowed his brows.

He knew the oni was talking about him when it said little man, but who was puny sorcerer.

'Shit!..

He didn't want to think of the possibility, but nothing was impossible and he knew it.

Without further talk, he exploded forth with immense speed and blasted towards the oni summoning all of his strength, wanting to eradicate it in one blow..

*BOOOOMMM!*

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Meanwhile, circling the altar, the woman in the read robe was getting impatient, looking at her soon to be new body with expectations and joy.

"Don't worry my dear, once I assimilate your body, I'm going to put it to good use. I can't wait to go see how much the outside world has developed, and see if I can devour some of your Jujutsu High geniuses while at it...most don't know this, but Jujutsu sorcerers taste the best.."

Letting out a small laugh, she traced her finger on the cheek of the young sorcerer.

After about a few minutes, the woman let out a laugh seeing the afternoon sun rise to its peak through a hole in the cave.

"Now that cursed energy is at its peak...let's begin the ritual! That fool Tengen. He tried to seal me and now, I'm going to rip him apart and feast on his flesh and bones!!!!"

Her face seemed to twist disgustingly, and the next moment, eight long metallic appendages burst out of her back.

Grabbing onto Ieiri's twitching body forcefully, she planted her face right into the young sorcerer's own, sealing their lips in an unholy matrimony. It was believed that the soul lived in the human body, and as such trying to get out of the body could only be accomplished through carefully passing it out through one of the body's cavities.

Meanwhile, Ieiri frustratedly and fearfully twitched on the stones altar. She suddenly felt a strong pull within her stomach as if something wanted to rip her body apart and destroy it from within.

Her fists were tightly clenched and her legs wobbled while more and more tears dripped down her eyes.

Wa eno one really going to save her? No one?..... not even him? She cried out inwardly, as she slowly felt herself losing consciousness. Her wobbling seemed to cease slowly, and her clenched fists were being slowly released.

Her heart slowly stopped beating, her lungs slowly dying, she could feel all of this mysteriously, yet she had no power to affect the changes that were happening to her body.

A few moments later, she could feel herself descend into deep dark abyss devoid of life, light nor matter. The whole place was completely encapsulated in an aura of solitude and a piercing quietness.

'Was this what Death felt like? Was she dying? Or was she dead?..'

Thinking with her consciousness, she felt herself drowning deeper and deeper, until a mysterious phenomenon seemed to occur in that instant. A phenomenon where she seemed to see a pair of gigantic eyeballs; purplish sclera with dark circular rings. And the moment they appeared, the darkness instantly shattered like mirrors, and she felt herself getting forcefully pulled out of the abyss.

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Meanwhile in reality, the woman in red robes was ecstatic, seeing as how her plan was succeeding, however right on cue, a whirling cudgel from out of nowhere cane smashing towards her with unreasonable force and speed.

Widening her eyes in shock, she hesitated. Once contact was broken, she wasn't sure she would be able to get the same progress she had reached a few moments ago, however the force from the cudgel was threatening and wasn't something her human body could take.

She instantly broke contact with Ieiri's figure, hurling herself back with force. However in the next moment, a massive column of wind type cursed energy blasted towards her from another angle, ripping through everything in the cave.

Unable to dodge in time, she was decimated by the beam of cursed energy and hurled back, getting smashed into the walls of the cave.

Blasting into the cave at full speed, a young blue haired sorcerer jumped off his mount and rushed to the figure of the young woman lying on the altar.

"Ieiri! Ieiri!! Shaking her body, trying to awaken her from her stupor, he checked her vital signs after a few moments only for his eyes to widen.

Her pulse was weak and shallow, respiration; nearly gone and her temperature was below normal.

"Sea Dragon!!!"

Without hesitating, he summoned a massive blue dragon from within a portal and began CPR. Understanding it's masters intentions, the dragon began channeling a potent healing power into her body, while Kenshin administered potent chest compressions.

His face was covered in sweat, and his expression was that of anger and disappointment, still he continued. He didn't know RCT so he couldn't use it at the moment, but he couldn't let her die, and resorted to old fashioned medical techniques.