In a world where death is permanent and souls are sealed by divine law, one boy is born with a curse — or a gift — that defies the order. He could restore humanity or he could just live his life peacefully. But in this cruel world, there is no room for rest, Being fair; that means there is no such thing as Peace. But every resurrection comes with a price: a piece of his humanity. There live this Teenage boy who lived Privately or Indoors in an Island, This island is no-ordinary-island. This island is not govern by anyone, the killing of people such as women, men or kids are Permitted. No sorrow for the sorrowful, passion for the Compassionate, no room for the poor, no Hospitality for the righteous, no Human on that island will ever destroy a cult and roam free, besides where can you roam free in this island? No Where.
However this was not all, to survived means having luck to breath without no one's permission.
My Name is Akusuji Akonomono, don't you ever forget that, and i am the one that would give peace to this BLOODY ISLAND.
My real story started on a faithful day. I was going to the mountains, to grab medicine for my Mother, who was extremely wounded and sick in this island.
My Father who was a Skilled Hunter —More like an assassin assign me to find this Place Called Mount Naika. He visited there once and never visited there again he never told me why but I heard that there are this skinny and Chubby Black So-Called Parasite who take the form of human Body, giving them two brains to think, i remember him saying the name once. I did not take my time to think cause I was very impatient, mommy have been ill and injured for 3 years. However, I Akusuji AKUNOMONO will never accept that coming from this world.
Mom was so Paralyzed and Unconscious, at that state i wonder if an injury could last for 3 years. But this was Different, this was the first time I saw that happening. In this island there is no such thing as life, We do not have neighbors, I do not have friends, at least not now.
Now am off to find that forbidden plant to cure my Mother illness.
I have been long gone for 6 days, I climbed from mountain to mountains, my feet was so tired my heart never stopped pumping blood.
I stepped beyond the jagged cliffs that marked the edge of the island's forbidden zone. The mountain loomed like a wound in the sky — torn, bleeding, and cursed. Every tree was twisted, every stone cracked like it had screamed once and never healed. This was the place my father spoke of in fear. He never told me what the plant looked like. Only that it would save my mother. Only that, I must go alone.
But I wasn't alone.
Unbeknownst to me, my younger brother Yasuki had followed me for 6 days straight. Quiet as the wind, stubborn as always. He believed in peace. He believed in me. But this mountain was no place for belief.
The moment I stepped into the valley of thorns, the air changed. It wasn't just cold — it was watching. Shadows moved without light. The ground pulsed like it remembered pain. And then I saw them.
I remember the name now, they are The SKINIKASHIN.
Demons without faces. Their skin was stitched from the flesh of the fallen. They didn't walk — they dragged. They didn't speak — they screamed. They were guardians of the forbidden plant [I thought so for a moment] and was brought to devour souls, cursed to chase anyone who dared approach it. And they had smelled me.
I ran, through brambles that tore my clothes, not knowing were i was heading to. Past broken statues of men who had tried before me, I was deeply scared, and which I was never born, all off them was so fast even without a complete human body, some of this SKINIKASHIN had a head but no leg, had no head but leg, had no arms just just legs, some had no body of a human, some crawls like hairy Jellyfish. I didn't know where the plant was. I didn't know what it looked like. This SKINIKASHIN have been eating humans to get there shape out of them, they had no form of body. They regenerate and shape shifts as well.
Damnit!!, I yelled, when i tried to get rid of one, there faces remind me of the bark of a tree.
I tried finding my way out of this island, at this situation I've forgotten what I was assign to do, I was having second taught of my dad trying to kill me in a nonchalant way.
Then I heard a voice.
"Akusuji!"
I turned. My heart stopped.
Yasuki.
Bleeding. Cornered. Surrounded by Skinikashin.
I let my guard down, a SKINIKASHIN with no neck and head grab me tight that I started yelling in fright and terror. My Chest keep on Pounding Rapidly, My Heart keep on pumping, At that time i wanted to give my life to Christ before it was too late, I yelled for mercy. My Brother screamed in Fear, He don't know what to do, His body was shaking and he nearly fainted, I was like Bro, go, am the only one suffering.
RUN!! I screamed, I was getting unconscious.
He tried running but fell, his finger grew 5cm long like as if he knows the right way to kill me, my skin, my body turned black. I didn't think. I didn't breathe. I acted. Something inside me broke — or awakened. My blood burned. My eyes turned black. And my eyes got dizzy, he was absorbing me, One SKINIKASHIN took me down, My Bullet got finished cause I've used it for food, my dagger got blunt not sharp enough to cut through, but there was no use, they could regenerate after all.
All the SKINIKASHIN started running towards me, covering me, like they was devouring instead of absorbing. I was destroyed, I couldn't feel my leg or my body, at that state I wonder how I was breathing.
My brother ran endlessly, like as if he was given 2 legs extra to run for his life, his stomach growl in hunger, after all he haven't eaten since 6 days straight.
*GUNSHOTS* "Raaaaaaahhhhhh" screamed the SKINIKASHIN from a distance.
They left my body part they are them, they feed on humans,they ran to the voice, it looks like they understand each other, even though they don't relate.
My body was dismantle into pieces, my blood spilled like water from a drying pond, I felt rain drop from the sky. This Mount Naika was cursed, I knew for sure my brother couldn't make it, but at least it was better than doing nothing. The rain started drizzling right on top of my forehead and my injuries.
*Gun Shot*
Raaaaaaahhhhhh!!, [SKINIKASHIN].
Who knew there weakness was there three vital organ, they won't die but turn to (their actual body also known as) non-human.
By the way who fired that shot, I was deep in thoughts, and didn't believe no one was on there way to come and rescue me.
Raaaaaaahhhhhh!!, [SKINIKASHIN].
I heard the voice again, it was someone killing them. I am certainly sure. At this point I hope my brother is rescued as I slowly die in pain. How does this creature exist?, I asked my self.
Oh yeah..., that's right, the Forbidden plant, I am not sure they was after that, I did not expect them to protect a plant, All of them look abnormal, and they can each percieve Humans from miles away, they never showed up when rain was drizzling throughout the mission, rain had started for about 11 days now, are they scared of water?, silly me, they aren't cats. No One, not even a single SKINIKASHIN have crawled here to eat me again.
Ughhh!!, What's happening. my Body, just die already, I don't want to endure this pain for this long, w-wait that first SKINIKASHIN he absorbed me, is this my body a-at all?, Arggh.
I coughed out blood till it turn pitch black and dried up, I have never this kind of pain in lifetime.
*GUN SHOT*
Wow..., that one was a loud one. Akusuji said to himself.
Akusuji!!. Someone shouted his name from a distance, old friends of he's who hadnever visited for 8 years till now.
His friends are shocked of how his body looks.
The rain thickened, turning the soil beneath me into black sludge. My body was barely holding together — bones cracked, skin torn, soul flickering like a dying flame. I couldn't lift my head, but I heard footsteps. Not dragging like the Skinikashin. Fast. Human.
"Akusuji!!" the voice called again.
I blinked through blood. Three figures emerged from the mist. One held a rifle still smoking. Another carried a blade carved from obsidian. The third… the third wore a mask I hadn't seen in eight years.
Kardagina
My childhood friend. The one who vanished the day the cult burned our small village in this cruel island. The one who was supposed to be dead is still living free.
"W-what are you doing here?, nevermind that," I whispered, coughing up black blood.
Kardagina knelt beside me, eyes wide.
*YELLED*
"You're not supposed to be alive."
"Neither are you," I muttered.
Behind him, the other two boys — circled the area, checking for Skinikashin remnants. But the demons were gone. Not dead. Just… hiding.
Kardagina looked at my body. "Did you found it."
I nodded NO weakly. "For Mom?." No, I couldn't." I said in an exhausting voice.
He hesitated. "That's not medicine, Akusuji. That's the Seed of Kurohana, you've been lied to. It doesn't heal. It replaces."
"What?", Dad,but he said, (h-how could you, putting your son to all this trouble just to see me drop dead). Akusuji whispered to himself.
"The plant doesn't cure wounds. It rewrites the soul. It's forbidden because it turns humans into something else. To heal someone you need a soul, to exchange for the person who is in need for the situation of life and death". Kardagina said in disappointment
You are so lucky that you haven't seen it, If you did, a curse follows. Grandma Cheeroko said this to me when I was 7. I can't believe it still in my little head, but I think this is just Legend not actually true, But the truth is that forbidden plant is not on this island, I mean, you think this through, isn't a forbidden plant meant to be in a forbidden land, that means no one knows where it really is or if it really exist, and also that means this had just be a bluff, so how the fuck did you believe the story". Kardagina said.
Akusuji wept in pain, (I wasted time and life for nothing,this island is corrupt by People). Akusuji said to himself
By the way we need to go, let's take you to the a friend of mine we meant on our way here. Can you feel your broken arm. Kardagina said in thought.
"No, just lift me, I wasted pleasant time and nearly my life". Akusuji said in regrets.
They carried Akusuji's broken body through the rain, past the ruins of the old village, into a hidden underground clinic carved into the roots of the island's oldest tree. The walls were damp. The air smelled of blood and moss. No one spoke. Kardagina's mind never left Akusuji's blood spilling in his shirt.
The doctor — an old man with trembling hands and a scar across his neck and his right arm— who was careless of what happened and gave treatment and began treatment immediately. He injected a serum made from crushed herbs and rare minerals you could find in mountain Naika. He whispered prayers to gods long forgotten.
But Akusuji was not healing.
His body was resisting the Syringe
"That's Unusual" The doctor said, in disbelief and fright.
Akusuji wasn't reacting to the serum, it was resisting, like another immune system which don't want medicine or cure, in cases like this; it could only be that Akusuji has two body.
His eyes snapped open. Black. Entirely black.
He screamed in deep pain, he screamed so loud that it could destroy the full clinic. The sound tore through the clinic like a blade. Glass shattered. Piece of rocks from top was falling down. The doctor stumbled back, clutching his ears.
Outside, the trees of Mount Naika began to twist. Their bark cracked. Their branches writhed. One by one, they began to shape shift — Skinikashin, born from wood and rage.
The rain stopped, like as if he could listen to Akusuji Scream.
Inside the clinic, Akusuji convulsed. His chest bulged unnaturally. Something was growing inside him.
An irregular shape of a blade.
Not metal. Not bone. Something else. A sharp, hand-like sword burst from his chest — stabbing the doctor through the heart. Like as if the Skinikash in Akusuji body knew what he was doing.
The doctor gasped. His eyes widened. Then he fell.
Kardagina hold his riffle firm aiming at Akusuji.
"Get back!" he shouted to the others. "This SKINIKASHIN don't just know the right time to visit, huh", Kardagina Added.
But Akusuji wasn't Akusuji anymore. His body was regenerating — faster than humanly possible. Veins of black hair crawled across his skin. His voice echoed in two tones — his own, and the SKINIKASHIN inside him.
"They are coming." Oramu, Kardagina friend said.
The earth cracked. Roots burst through the ceiling. Skinikashin began to crawl from the shadows — some with no heads, some with too many limbs, some having faces of past victims they had consume.
The clinic became more like a battlefield.
No body know the hell where Yasuki was.
Akusuji stood in the center — screaming, rolling from side to side.
The Blade in his chest retracted. His body healed instantly. He looked at Kardagina.
"Run, Run Kardagina, The Skinikashin are a-after you" Akusuji said, while his body part turning black, his eyes twitching, he could barely speak.
"Raaaaaaahhhhhh!!" Akusuji Screamed, not feeling himself.
"Akusuji" Kardagina said, "I guess you were not worth helping to begin with", Bunguen Added
"We'll do as you say pal, you've been a bad friend but I think you are worth helping", Kardagina said.
" Bye Man, see you some day" Oramu said, "Talk about a cruel word this is" Bunguen Added.
Kardagina, Oramu and Bunguen both ran to exit the Clinic which was made of Rocks.
On their way to the exit area from an old tree which the exit side was narrow. Oramu sense a presence, a Human and SKINIKASHIN in one body, at first he thought itwas Akusuji that followed them, it was the doctor.
He was Possessed.
Kardagina looked back. "He has a SKINIKASHIN, no way"
Dr. Doran, the one who was being possessed was dead-walking like a Zombie. His wound from his chest had already healed. With his hand he crafted a dagger, threw it towards there direction in high speed, that the human eyes couldn't see it coming, It was nearly impossible to throw a dagger like a firing Bullet.
Kardagina and Oramu ducked down like they knew this was going to happen, "Bunguen bend down" Oramu said with a loud voice, it was already too late the dagger aimed for his forehead.
Bunguen Collapse, He's Chapter had been closed.
"Raaaaaaahhhhhh" Oramu screamed on a loud and violent voice.
"Do you really think you could escape hell", Said Dr. Doran with a big grin on his face.