You can hear the clank of armored shoes against the ground as Gilgamesh drops down behind you as you begin the ten second count, merely touching the surface of Enkidu's head is enough to burn you with powerful curses, you can feel the flesh of your hand boiling and bubbling as you hold onto Enkidu, but despite the pain, you don't let go.

Finally, after ten seconds of agony, you finally enter into a conceptual visualization of Enkidu's being, and while it is clouded in darkness that tries to cling to you, but somehow, something prevents the darkness from crushing you. The lack of pretty much anything in this visualization except for one thing, a slowly moving beast of clay with two horns. The original form that was taken by Enkidu upon his creation. It barely responds to your presence as you approach it and place a palm on its forehead. This is clearly the being that you need to use your ability on it, and you suppose that once more, you're going to need to apply a concept on something.

Liberation. That's the concept that you'll apply to Enkidu. The concept that rather than representing freedom, represents the act of being freed. Something that should allow Enkidu to not only free himself of the darkness that has grabbed hold of him, but of any attempt to control him in the future. Something that will truly prevent him from ever having to think of himself as nothing more than a tool ever again!

You infuse the concept into the plodding beast, which doesn't react for a few seconds until it suddenly turns its head to look at you, the beast doesn't seem to have any eyes, but you know that it is looking at you regardless of that. A few seconds after the beast turns to look at you, you find yourself being dragged away from the world, and the visualization ends at that moment.

You feel a hand on the back of your collar pulling you away from Enkidu really quite viciously and at great speed, and you're about to complain, until you realize just why you're being moved away from the changing form of the man made of clay. Even as the horns of the man disappear, eroding away like wet clay, there is darkness seeping out from underneath Enkidu, a great pool of corrupting evil is being rejected from his body before is suddenly rapidly speeds off deeper into the forest instead of pursuing anybody close to it.

Enkidu falls to his knees as the last of the grail mud leaves his body, and while you could probably try to pursue the grail mud for whatever reason, there's really not much point in doing so, not while Sakura hasn't got her powers activated. Normal destruction of the grail mud wouldn't serve much purpose, not unless you can somehow destroy the spirit that manipulates it, and right now, you don't really care about trying to pursue Angra Mainyu, you've really got bigger fish to fry than what is basically Manaka's pet. Namely Orochi. You get a good look at the newly liberated Enkidu, to confirm the changes.

[Status Updated!]

Part 27