Ep 6 To Hunt a Demon

To Shogunate Jin, Guild and Guild Leader,

Report:

We located the beast being labeled as a Demon, it’s far more evil than anyone thought. A monster made of blood and wrathe, almost unfathomable. I recommend only one capable of purifying and smothering out evil to address this thing.

In addition, upon leaving the settlement, we returned back through to find Castle Shimada utterly destroyed. Turned to a place full of only death. The results are strikingly similar to the beast, but far more encompassing and feral.

Casualties:

3 Wounded, now recovered.

Hundreds Dead.

Āwhina

O-Murasaki Write-up Ep 6: We went to investigate the "Demon" murders. The only witness had identified the Butcher as the culprit. We didn't think it was him, because he didn't seem the magic sort and slaughtered were clearly bound by magic.. We were wrong, he can control blood. He decided I was too beautiful to be a person and needed to be killed. The shogun was planning on hanging him, but I don’t think that would work since his decapitated head would go with him. The town on the way back was completely massacred… by \*not\* the Butcher.. We took the Leader’s seal and wrote a report on bloody paper to send to the Shogunate.

Written report from Mark:

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       We set off for carencro through the same swamp that we went through on my previous mission. This time we were unable to avoid it before it spotted us. O-Murasaki and Mama used magic to hold it down long enough for us to escape. We stopped in Castle Shimaba for a night's rest. Nessa the barkeep at the local tavern said she was going to gather a few missions for us from the people of Castle Shimaba. We also met Jéan, a lieutenant of the new guard Baron Shimaba hired to protect the castle from the “Demon”. In the morning we continued to the town of Ibaraki. We talked to Lady Moon, the mayor of Ibaraki, and she pointed us to the sole witness of the “Demon”. Mara was the one who pointed to the butcher as our only suspect. We then met the Shogunate and he told us we might as well go home because Mara solved the case. We insisted we might as well do our own investigation just in case, and he let us stay. We then investigated the murder scene at an old demon ruins. We concluded that the people were killed alive and that they were restrained with some kind of magic. I stayed to watch the ruins with  mama while Āwhina and O-murasaki “Interrogated” the butcher. Then Āwhina and Mama watched the ruins while O-Murasaki and I interrogated the butcher. Everyone is mean to him and he thinks everyone is ugly. He took a liking to O-Murasaki. When O-Murasaki tried to leave the interrogation room (at the shogunate’s request) The Butcher went berserk. It turns out he has some blood control type of power. He was basically a walking bloodbag.  He nearly cut into O-Murasaki but I finished him off. But then spider legs formed out of the hole in his chest and he ran away very fast, so we couldn’t catch him. And then on the way back we passed through castle Shimaba and everyone there was slaughtered. And the butcher ran in the opposite direction of castle Shimaba so it couldn’t have been him. An entire building was ripped from the ground. I recalled this is how the people of castle Shimaba described the demon killings. That is all.

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