I am Angelos

New Point of view

My name is Angelos.  I was born the same day as Jesus of Nazareth and I died at the same age.  On the other hand, I am not Jewish, nor Roman, but from the Greek empire.  I definitely don't miss the first century.  The situation there was stupidly boring.  Although I lived in a loving family, I only feel emptiness and a constant lack of empathy during my human life.  On the other hand, where do you think I died?  Not in Greece anyway.  Indeed, I left the empire at twenty to go to Japan where I spent the last thirteen years before breathing my last due to an incurable illness.  This is how my life as a human ends.  But an unprecedented event occurs for me.  The first is that a manifestation of me is actually the lemure you knew during the prologue before Yukari got rid of him.  He's done his lemure job of tormenting the living.  Also, he and I are not the same people.

- Put that well in your skull!

So where did I go if the lemur you followed isn't me?  Well let me tell you about my life as a yokai after my life as a human ended.  I became a yokai after three hundred years of wandering as a ghost during which several negative emotions broke away from me, creating the famous lemures.  It remains a horrible experience that I would not wish on anyone.

"The air in this country is simply unbreathable."

It was then that on the way that I came across a magnificent ten-year-old boy.  For those who want to know my species: I am a Ningen Yokai (Human Yokai), not to be confused with half humans and half yokai, otherwise I will eat your souls right away.

"Hello my child!  What are you doing alone in the middle of the forest?"

"Hey... Well, I really like hanging out here at night for him, don't you?"

"No, just that I'm passing through.  My name is Angelos and you?"

"Ishiaka... that's all..."

He looks so sad.  It was then that I offered to give it a name.

"Yakumo Ishiaka.  Would you like it?  When you grow up, you can train your own client and call him Yakumo which means eight clouds.  You could help people by exorcising evil spirits, what do you think?"

The eyes of this little being shine with a thousand lights and from this discussion, the Yakumo clan is born years later.  Officially, he is the only founder of the clan that specializes in exterminating Japan's yokai.  In reality, the real founder is a duo: Me who had the idea, and him who put it in place.  Apart from him, no one else knows and only he can see me.  After forty six years of reign, he died at the age of seventy of natural causes.  This is how I guide the next generation until the day when - in 820 - an unprecedented event occurs.  A yokai is born at the same time as a human, the latter being the eighth leader of the clan in the making as well as the one who will prosper the longest.  His full name is Yakumo Ishiraiki.  He will take the throne upon the death of his father, from his 8 years old until he exceeded one hundred years old he became a Ningen Yokai just like me.  So I taught him what he knows as well as advising throughout his long life to the point where he tells me everything about his life up to his walks with this yokai of the breaches.

"Hey Ishiraiki, don't tell anyone you're a Ningen Yokai, I advised him.  Otherwise you risk having no place with either side."

"Not even to Yukari?  he asks me.  She could understand since we are of the same species."

"Not even to her.  Sometimes there are things we have to keep secret.  You see, in my lifetime I lived on opulence and wealth and this is how I ended up.  Be gentle and humble while remaining firm and courageous."

I then let him direct everything after having taught him what it takes.  As for me, I always come to see him.  Then one day, I met Yukari and this encounter marked him for life because despite his powers, my power was overwhelming.  So I tell him:

"Remain her friend nothing more!  Don't go any further with him, understand?"

"Hold on !  What is your connection with him?  And why shouldn't I approach her closer huh?"

"Little Yukari, or should I say Maribel Hearn, if you dare to put your hand on him to have more than a friendship, I will find you and I will make you disappear from existence."

So I leave with these words, not without threatening her:

"Also, forget this conversation!"

During the following centuries, Kenpyri married a Hakurei priestess.  Unfortunately, the wars between humans and yokais took place on this arid and desolate land that will become Gensokyo.  Unfortunately, it is by wanting to stop him and save his clan and then his friend that he ends up sacrificing himself.  Believing him dead, the Yakumo family goes, under my indirect orders, to Kyoto, and Yukari decimates both camps in a fit of incredible rage.  During this battlefield, I take this opportunity to seal him in another dimension where he will recover from his injuries.  What I don't know is that he entrusted the rest of the Yakumo clan to Yukari;  the one pointed it out to me from our last meeting while threatening me in turn.

"If you dare to get your hands on them for anything other than friendship, I'll make you disappear from existence.  That's what you told me, right?"

Hey, well, whoever laughs last will laugh well because as I speak to you, this clan almost no longer exists - strangely - except in one person that you keep under "control" even if at the moment the roles are equal.  I smile, perched under a tree watching you snuggle up to each other.

"I hope the lemure in my image has not tormented you too much, Ishiha Kenpyri."

I laugh with finesse before going to the white jade tower.  I have a Yama to see!