Eight Sufferings: Illness, Omikuji Says "Great Misfortune"! I'll Change the Fortune-The People There Need Me!

On the rugged country road in Tōtomi Province, Sakata said hoarsely,

"Maybe it was one day about a week ago, or perhaps it happened in a single moment... In any case, after that instant, something changed."

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Under Uesugi Tetsu's gaze, the powerful, burly samurai seemed to recall something unpleasant, and his face paled.

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"Before that turning point, as long as ordinary people stayed at home and weren't conscripted as ashigaru, nothing would basically happen to them. At worst, life would become a little more difficult in the days ahead.

But after that—

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"Diseases never heard of before appeared, spreading at an utterly unreasonable speed. The crops that were supposed to be harvested also withered for no apparent reason... Before anyone knew it, famine had arrived."

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Sakata continued dryly,

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"Besides that, strange demons like the one the Great Onmyoji just killed with thunder magic appeared from who knew where, one after another."

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"They couldn't be reasoned with, slaughtered the living, and brought pestilence..."

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Imagawa Yoshimoto listened in silence, her expression growing worse and worse.

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Her fingernails had already dug into her palms, causing bright-red blood to drip from her knuckles and seep into the soil.

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Uesugi Tetsu remained impassive as he looked at the kill notification that had appeared earlier.

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[You killed Disease's Retainer, Miasma Ghost (half-star), and obtained 3 Soul Ash.]

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One of the Eight Sufferings.

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The Suffering of Illness among birth, aging, illness, and death.

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This was the second time he had encountered one of the Eight Sufferings.

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The first time, Ai Bielie, who had only three stars, had caused the "Red Tide" that nearly destroyed the entire Arakawa Ward in a major city like Tokyo, right under the Special Affairs Division's nose.