"Crimson Blade・Crimson Slash" Memory Scrolls

* TW/JP Servers: March 27th - April 16th 2019
* GL Server: May 29th - June 18th 2019

This was the memory scroll event accompanying the release of the SP shikigami Akakage Youtou Hime.

### Rewards

When each part of the scroll is fixed, rewards will be distributed across server depending on participation. The participation value depends on the shards being given, and the more given the higher the value. Each portion of the scroll has a separate ranking for participation, and the ranking spans the entire server. Data is refreshed once every minute.

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## Shikigami Story

* Scroll I
* Scroll II
* Scroll III
* Scroll IV
* Scroll V
* Scroll VI

### Battlefield

A rumor went widespread on the battlefield about the vanquishing of demons by a girl shikigami who wields a long crimson blade, fights like a crimson shadow, and won't stop until all demons and monsters are slain. The intimidating demonic horns on her forehead look like a war cry of her battle will, fiercely claiming her power to the demons and monsters. The rumor goes by the name of Crimson Shadow.

Your doom has come and it's too late to beg for mercy.

The girl was once a human - something few knew.

One fails to imagine how cruel a noble family can become when it comes to seeking the power of the demons and deities. A magical blade was used as tool to have such power imbued into the flesh of a human. Alas, the ritual that goes against how the world works is destined to fail. The girl acquired the power, yet she almost lost control of it.

"Just look at her horns!"

"The demonic power she has is too strong. What if she uses the power against us?"

"It'd be most safe if we could pray to the Serpent Lord for shelter."

"I've told him already. Only fools would ever think about doing such things!" "Hush...he might hear us."

Elders who called themselves wise were discussing a matter about which no one dares to draw a conclusion - if she's human or a monster. One particular onmyoji who was foolish enough draw an amulet and claimed her as his shikigami. He now has full control of her.

"Since she's not a human, she might as well become the weapon who can carry out the will of our Minamoto clan."

The girl was given the name Crimson Shadow and became a major force against demons and monsters. She fights by instinct with precision and absolution as if she doesn't have to think.

It's true that she doesn't have to think, since she's nothing but a killing weapon who does nothing but execute orders.

However, a faint voice lingers in her head.

"Stop... stop..."

### Faith Shook

As the girl washes off the bloodstains covering her and takes off her armor after the rusty smell of the battlefield has faded away, she started to take a good look at her blade, which was alight by her will to battle. As thoughts and feelings came back to her, a voice started to murmur in her head,

"Who do you fight for?"

"Why do you unsheathe your blade?"

"Who are you?"

The girl was speechless. She has no answers for any of the questions she asked herself. She would rush to the battlefield whenever she received an order. She sees nothing but a world of crimson cleaved open by her blade even when she's calm... No, she has no calm in her. Whenever she lays down her blade and closes her eyes, the dark world would be filled with demons and monsters, questioning her day by day,

Who do you fight for?

What do you kill for?

Who are you?

A comrade-in-arms who fought beside her in battles and was always among the first to kill for the great cause of vanquishing demons for the Minamoto clan once answered her without hesitation,

"I fight for the cause of the Minamoto clan."

"My blade is unsheathed for the justice of the Minamoto clan."

"I'm the treasure of the Minamoto clan, the blade that brings doom to all monsters."

"I'm Onikiri."

"Isn't it obvious? You're a shikigami of the Minamoto clan. Your faith shall not be shaken."

But things should not work this way. The voice in her head turned from questioning to weeping. The girl had never accepted the terms. What she could only remember was the orders commanding her to the battlefield, forcing her to wield her blade, controlling her to do the same thing again and again - kill, kill, kill.

Her faith was never shaken, for it was never her will.

### Breaking Free

She's on the battlefield again, wielding her blade, attacking.

When she faces the resurrected demon boss and his companion, the body of the girl, driven by her pact, loyally executed the order she was given.

As the battle grows fierce, the blade in her hands started to shiver - partly because her battle-thirsty body was excited about facing a worthy opponent and partly because of a prayer for freedom she has deep down.

She closed her eyes, allowing her body to be controlled by the order. The voice in her head became ever clearer.

"End it all here."

The girl prayed in her heart.

The high spirits couldn't hear the voice in her heart, of course. But from fighting against her, they sensed that there's something human left in her. Out of pity or spite, they destroyed the pact that has been constraining the girl.

"You're free now. Go."

The girl ran away from the battlefield without any sense of direction, but she has a will supporting her inside - never to fight, never to wield the blade, stay away from the rusty smell that resembles killing, as far as possible.

As she was running, she saw her former comrades-in-arms, villages destroyed by wars, elders who taught her lessons patiently, children who are playing...and herself, standing still with a blade in her hands.

Without the constraint of her pact, her will and her body were separated as they refused to merge.

Her heart of a human and her body that was reduced to a demon were separated.

A feeling of terror that she had never felt arise in the girl as she sees her body running for life.

### The Pact

Everything she sees is in blood when she regains her conscious.

Failing to see clearly, she focuses her sight. Among piles of spirit bodies, she sees a weak little spirit shaking in fear. The child was staring at her with his eyes wide open for being frightened. It was as if you can see the girl's reflection in his eyes. The girl in the reflection is holding a long blade, body bathed in blood, and has a pair of glowing crimson demonic horns.

"The kid's eyes looks just like my little brothers..."

"Oops...He must've been frightened by how I look. I better wipe myself clean."

With this thought in mind, the girl slowly raised her right arm.

Then the little spirit goes down. His eyes were still staring to the front, yet life is slipping away from his pupils. She no longer sees her reflection in his eyes. The demon force in her rushed forward from behind before making a turn and strikes with the blade. Her battle thirsty body is ever more happy.

"Stop!"

"Stop."

"Stop..."

The voice in her head was never gone, but it was useless as well.

The body holds the power of demons! It was then that the girl realized the meaning of the pact. Without the constraint of the pact, the demonic blood thirst instinct will overrule everything. The body will be obsessed in killing. And there's no turning back.

The girl cracked. The body was still howling and killing before the smell of rusty weapons fade away. It will not stop until all lives are slain.

A gentle onmyoji took her in.

"I won't force you to talk about your past. Instead, I will try to find a place for you."

He uses spells to contain her demonic instinct and sealed in her body with a pact that forbade her from hurting anyone.

The girl held her blade tight in her arms and became a shikigami again, without a clue as to what had happened.

### Dilemma

She tried to stay away from living beings, weapons, and anything that's related to killing. But she can never leave her blade behind.

Even when the long blade is stashed away in a place not known to her, the girl would still find a way. Summoned by the calling from its spiritual power or her own instinct, the girl would run non-stop until she has her blade in her arms, even when her conscious is still asleep.

She became overly dependent on the blade when her consciousness first awakens. It was when she's surrounded by her comrades-in-arms, torn by monsters, on the battlefield. All she can see was the wide-open mouths of the monsters, which reek of rusty smells.

The girl has never in her life seen such a hellish view.

There appeared a flash of crimson shadow and the slashing of a blade. Yet her body never moved an inch. The monsters became lumps of flesh that are no longer threats. The girl regained her breath. She can feel the blade she's been tightly holding in her hands. To her, it was as if she's in the aftermath of a doomsday. Her consciousness is still in chaos. This happens ever time she awakens. When she fully regains her consciousness, the girl realized - the blade is not just a murdering weapon, it's a charm for protection as well.

"The blade must never leave my side."

This might be the first time her will and her body agree on something. However, the blade was quenched repeatedly in demon blood and will become most fearsome when it's being wielded by a body driven by the power of demons.

Not even the onmyoji who knows everything knows how to deal with her. The girl begged the onmyoji to seal her in a chamber. She'd rather destroy herself than do any more harm.

It all changed when the emissary from Takamagahara showed his mercy.

### Freed

The girl was taken to the royal court after she's released from the pact with the onmyoji. The emissary taught her the spell to infuse her power into the weapon and how she can live with the power she possesses. Maybe one day, the emissary would teach her how to use the power properly - if the world needs her.

Thanks to the cleansing spiritual power in the royal court, the girl's body was cleaned of the urge to kill. The power of flesh cannot withhold is gradually transferred to the blade.

As the demonic force in her is being cleansed, the horns on her forehead were disappearing. The time she stays awake was getting shorter as well. And every time she wakes up, she always looks around in panic, fearing that she had added another cut to the dark chamber. After making sure nothing's damaged, she would look out the window, waiting for the next slumber.

"Wait until your demonic horns have completely disappeared, until the blade has inherited all your power, and until you regain your humanity."

The girl repeated the words from the emissary. This must be the best blessing of all, she thought.

The girl falls asleep in the dark chamber of the royal court with her long blade as her only companion.