# 958
Chapter 959: Nine Blades United
"Your current body may not be able to withstand the power of nine blades."
Furuhara Yoshiki frowned, speaking seriously. "An ordinary person's bloodline cannot control nine Magatsu Blades. Besides, you're already severely injured..."
"How do you know unless I try?"
Amemiya Haruki said calmly. His blood-soaked hand reached into the wooden box and grabbed a purple long sword, driving it, sheath and all, into the pool of blood beneath his feet.
"Nine Magatsu Blades, the First: 【Rainfall Collapse】."
Amemiya Haruki murmured to himself, then took out the otherworldly blade he'd just obtained and drove it into the ground as well.
"Nine Magatsu Blades, the Second: 【Mountain Burial】."
When the second Magatsu Blade merged with the blood pool, the two blades seemed to resonate through the blood, trembling slightly!
A faint purple and otherworldly glow flowed into the blood pool, intertwining and connecting with each other, emanating a mysterious aura.
"Brother Amemiya, what is he..."
Yuzuri Nana stood to the side, watching Amemiya Haruki's movements in a daze, her face full of confusion.
"He's using himself as a medium to fuse the nine blades together." Furuhara Yoshiki spoke slowly. "The auras of the nine Magatsu Blades are independent of each other. Only by using blood as the guide and the body as the furnace can they be connected..."
"To use the terminology from when we forged the Magatsu Blades, he's sacrificing."
"Sacrifice?" Hoshimi Shota's expression changed slightly. "Will he die?"
"Forging a divine artifact is never easy. Just creating these Nine Magatsu Blades cost countless lives. Now, fusing the nine blades together also requires life as a medium." Furuhara Yoshiki paused, then continued, "But even as a sacrifice... not just anyone can serve that role."
Furuhara Yoshiki turned his head, glancing at the red-clad figure battling the Corpse God, then looked down at Yuzuri Nana beside him. His eyes were full of complex emotions.
Yuzuri Nana was stunned.
Then, as if understanding something, she lightly pressed her lips together.
"Nine Magatsu Blades, the Fifth: 【Black Rope】."
Amemiya Haruki took out the third Magatsu Blade from the wooden box and inserted it into the blood pool.
A strand of black light surged into the blood pool, connecting with the other two Magatsu Blades. Amemiya Haruki staggered, his face growing even paler.
He stood still for a few seconds, then quickly pulled out the remaining two Magatsu Blades from the wooden box and drove them into the ground with force.
"Nine Magatsu Blades, the Sixth: 【Illusory Pupil】."
"Nine Magatsu Blades, the Eighth: 【Flame Sparrow】."
The merging of the two additional blades caused the still blood pool to suddenly ripple with concentric waves. Two rays of light, one gold and one crimson, surged into Amemiya Haruki's body. He coughed up a mouthful of blood and collapsed to one knee.
He lowered his head, his face covered in beads of sweat, breathing heavily.
The weight of five Magatsu Blades had completely crushed his bloodline... For an ordinary person like him, managing to persist this far was purely due to willpower.
However, whether he admitted it or not, his physical body was already on the verge of collapse.
He gritted his teeth, stubbornly standing in the blood pool behind the five Magatsu Blades, his eyes full of unwillingness. He firmly reached out, trying to grasp the long blade at his waist.
Just then, a hand gently caught the 【Rainfall Collapse】 scabbard.
Amemiya Haruki froze, turning to look.
There stood Yuzuri Nana, her petite frame standing quietly in the blood pool, her geta sandals splashing through the crimson water. Rain dripped from her soaked black hair onto the old kimono with its black and cherry blossom pattern.
Her right hand was gripping the 【Rainfall Collapse】 scabbard tightly.
"Yuzuri..."
"Brother Amemiya, let me do this." Yuzuri Nana smiled faintly. "You're just an ordinary person without royal blood. You can't bear this many Magatsu Blades... This is destined to be our Yuzuri family's duty."
Furuhara Yoshiki hadn't said it explicitly, but that glance just now had already conveyed certain information... Yuzuri Nana was clever.
An ordinary person's bloodline cannot bear the power of nine Magatsu Blades—the implication was that only royal blood could do so.
After Yuzuri Kurotetsu's death, the only ones in the "Human Enclosure" with royal blood inheritance were her sister, Yuzuri Nana, and her brother, Yuzuri Takishiro.
Though Yuzuri Nana's royal blood was recessive, a recessive royal bloodline was still royal blood.
In other words, to save this "Human Enclosure," either she or Yuzuri Takishiro had to become the sacrifice for the Magatsu Blades. Yuzuri Nana knew in her heart that if Yuzuri Takishiro were here, he would undoubtedly volunteer to be this sacrifice...
And she didn't want her brother to become the sacrifice.
Amemiya Haruki looked at her deeply, shaking his head firmly. "Both you and your brother are too young... I can do this without royal blood."
He reached out to pull the 【Rainfall Collapse】 from its scabbard, but Yuzuri Nana's hand gripped it tightly, refusing to let go.
Amemiya Haruki frowned.
Clang—!
The soft ring of a blade leaving its sheath rang out.
However, the blade being unsheathed wasn't 【Rainfall Collapse】, but 【Thousand Cranes】.
"I'm sorry, Brother Amemiya." Yuzuri Nana stood amid the skyful of paper cranes, smiling apologetically. "Although I'm the Master of the Magatsu Blades, I haven't been much help this whole time. I'm not as capable as you, not as conscientious as Takishiro... This should be the only thing I can do for you all...
Perhaps this is my destined fate."
With a strong pull, she yanked the 【Rainfall Collapse】 from Amemiya Haruki's waist. The paper cranes swirling around him lifted him into the sky, forming a cage of paper cranes that sealed him within.
"You can't—"
The severely injured Amemiya Haruki, without 【Rainfall Collapse】, couldn't break free from the restraints of 【Thousand Cranes】. Just as he was about to speak, several paper cranes unfolded into talismans, sealing his mouth.
At the same time, the other paper cranes brushed past Hoshimi Shota and Furuhara Yoshiki's waists, their beaks gently pecking and taking the two other blades from them.
Snow-white paper cranes flew through the air, carrying the two Magatsu Blades. At their center, a petite figure raised her head, glanced at the red-clad figure fighting fiercely in the distance, then slowly closed her eyes.
She sliced open her palm, crimson blood trickling down her fingertips into the blood pool. As her blood poured in, the five Magatsu Blades already embedded in the ground shone brightly once more. Various colored lights intertwined in the blood, eventually converging into her body.
Yuzuri Nana raised the deep blue long blade in her hand and drove it heavily into the blood pool.
"Nine Magatsu Blades, the Fourth: 【Rainfall Collapse】."
After Yuzuri Nana inserted this blade, she beckoned toward the sky. The flying paper cranes dropped a vermillion long blade into her waiting hand.
"Brother Shota, after the Nine Magatsu Blades unite into one, Lady Wu will be freed from the blade and regain her freedom. Then... you two can be together forever."
She smiled toward Hoshimi Shota in the distance.
The vermillion long blade pierced into the blood pool.
"Nine Magatsu Blades, the Seventh: 【Lady Wu】."