1 State of tiryagyoni - Mountainside wandering (Open , No Kill) Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:44 pm
Shakai
D-rank
Throughout the high places the fallen progeny of savants wandered. Though his thoughts had once been akin to the beasts that surrounded him change had come suddenly and invigorated the seed of consciousness that he had tried so hard to smother over the course of his life. Spying goats leaping onwards towards ever more precarious crags the ogre began to feel his stomach rumble and the prospect of falling seemed highly insignificant in comparison to stating his numbing cravings. And so Kyōbōna gave chase throwing himself over the yawning abyss pursing the horned beasts and scrabbling up sheer rock faces digging in nails that resembled the claws of a predator.
The first to fall behind was a kid barely old enough to be weaned from its mother. Kyōbōna's teeth tore the vast majority of its body off leaving only legs falling to the ground as bloody stumps. This was merely an appetiser however and with increased fervour the barbarous wild man leaped higher and higher. Finally reaching the plateau at the peak of the mountain the bovidae began to bleat pathetically. There was no escape for the creatures and Kyōbōna began to slaughter the herd gorging himself on innards and offal.
Unbeknownst to Kyōbōna such acts no longer carried the meaninglessness that they once did. He was awakening to his spiritual self and such an act of violence was indeed now almost ritual. A sacrament to the hungry dead, a charnel offering of symbolic nature. Such violent slaughter called out across the gap between flesh and spirit and the Gaki - starving ghosts that dwell in torment began to creep forth manifesting as hazy shadows surrounding the feast.
Though his third eye had not yet opened Kyōbōnas sixth sense was still far above that of the mundane human and even through his carnivorous urges he began to realise something was wrong. Shadowy claws seemly hidden by a smoky haze rising from the mountainside began to swipe out ripping gobbets from the goat carcases. The Gaki believing that the goats were a sacrifice from the human mystic were claiming it as their own. Rage began to flow up from within Kyōbōna and he lashed out with his fists only growing even more furious as he struck naught but air.
Whipping himself into a fury at phenomenon that he could not fully comprehend Kyōbōna's howls carried far across the hills and valleys.
The first to fall behind was a kid barely old enough to be weaned from its mother. Kyōbōna's teeth tore the vast majority of its body off leaving only legs falling to the ground as bloody stumps. This was merely an appetiser however and with increased fervour the barbarous wild man leaped higher and higher. Finally reaching the plateau at the peak of the mountain the bovidae began to bleat pathetically. There was no escape for the creatures and Kyōbōna began to slaughter the herd gorging himself on innards and offal.
Unbeknownst to Kyōbōna such acts no longer carried the meaninglessness that they once did. He was awakening to his spiritual self and such an act of violence was indeed now almost ritual. A sacrament to the hungry dead, a charnel offering of symbolic nature. Such violent slaughter called out across the gap between flesh and spirit and the Gaki - starving ghosts that dwell in torment began to creep forth manifesting as hazy shadows surrounding the feast.
Though his third eye had not yet opened Kyōbōnas sixth sense was still far above that of the mundane human and even through his carnivorous urges he began to realise something was wrong. Shadowy claws seemly hidden by a smoky haze rising from the mountainside began to swipe out ripping gobbets from the goat carcases. The Gaki believing that the goats were a sacrifice from the human mystic were claiming it as their own. Rage began to flow up from within Kyōbōna and he lashed out with his fists only growing even more furious as he struck naught but air.
Whipping himself into a fury at phenomenon that he could not fully comprehend Kyōbōna's howls carried far across the hills and valleys.