"Shuten, what... what are you doing?" Your body is low on magical energy now, and the fatigue has begun to spread to every other part of your body along with the burning. Your curiosity gets the better of you though. Instead of simply asking Caster for a teleport away from the oni, you want to know what she's actually doing. It's odd, but you can almost hear a... dripping sound? It's not raining, so what's going on?

"Oh, the fool speaks?" The voice that responds to you doesn't sound like Shuten's voice. Well, that's not quite true. It sounds like Shuten, but it's almost as if her voice is overlaid with itself hundreds of times, creating a truly ominous effect. "It's not what I'm doing... It's what you did, Shinji Makiri." What on earth is she talking about? You'd get yourself in a fighting posture, but you seem to have become completely paralyzed by something! Fear? Power? What the hell is going on?! "I can no longer be called Shuten-Dōji. Nor can I be called a Heroic Spirit. Thanks to you, I have become something... more." Oh no. You... may have made a mistake. You had no idea that Truth could be used to do such a thing but... "I have become a true Divine Spirit now." There it is! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! This is bad, you need to get away!

Part 11