#Asakura Yohmei

[gembug86]

Ko-Oni reblog <3

Shout out to that time in the anime when Yohmei summoned a bunch of Ko-Oni with little pebbles! <3 <3 <3

[fruitysmellz]

A friend once said that Yoh and Anna being married in their teen years is just 24/7 Horny O’Clock and I don’t think I ever recovered from that 🤣🤣🤣

[skhub]

Shaman King Official Fan Book (2004) Asakura family profile pages and Q&A, Italian edition.

[readtilyoudie]

Shaman King Vol 6

[emo-spongebob-readings]

04 – Shaman King Big 03 – 04/91

O terceiro volume de Shaman King Big reúne os encadernados de número cinco e seis da publicação original. Aqui acompanhamos a segunda luta da primeira rodada do Shaman Fight – o torneiro shaman – entre Yoh e Fausto VIII, um necromante. A luta não ocorre muito bem para Yoh e o mesmo é salvo por uma pessoa inesperada.

Yoh então decepcionado com os fatos ocorridos em sua luta, decide treinar para aumentar a sua força oracular, e com isso volta para a sua terra natal para realizar o treinamento com seu avô Yohmei, o chefe da família Asakura, no qual ele deverá entrar no buraco do Yomi e passar sete dias e sete noites no completo escuro.

A terceira edição de Shaman King big em formato físico conta com 373 páginas preto e branco, reunindo os capítulos #36-53 da obra original, sendo publicado no Brasil pela editora JBC em junho de 2022.

[littleeyesofpallas]

@candlebel Oh sure. This is always a fun bit of trivia to babble on about.

So the Asa[麻] in the family name Asakura[麻倉] means "Hemp" and there's a king of ongoing motif throughout the series where most of the Asakura family's given names reference [葉]: "Leaf" in some way or another, and even those that's don't do still reference plants.

The most obvious is that Yoh[葉] is just the word "Leaf" but obviously with the context of the family name the image it evokes is a hemp leaf. Similarly, while Hao[ハオ] is only written phonetically, it's a homonym with a few different potential readings like, hao[葉麻]: "Leaf Hemp", hao[葉雄]: "leaf man", hao[葉御]: "leaf<honorific>."

Similar word play is, like I said, present in the names of most of the men of the family specifically --Yohken, Yohmei, Yohkyo, Yohane. It's also why the Asakura family crest is a "modified daoist star" that's actually just a stylized cannabis leaf.

It's also why Yoh is the way he is: a space case who just wants to chill out and listen to his favorite musician, Bob MarleySoul Bob: In a country with drug laws as strict as Japan's a mainstream publication like JUMP would never let Takei just outright say it, but his protag is totally just a stoner kid.

And then Lyserg Diethel's name is just syllables clipped right out of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide(LSD). And LSD has a lot of rhetoric surrounding it about clarity of vision and thought and increase brain power and some new age spiritual mumbo jumbo for good measure.

Although more pertinent to his actual character type, is that his spirit's name is Morphine(although I think they changed it to something random in the English?) and she's the spirit of a poppy flower --the source of opium-- and along with Lyserg being a British detective in an inverness cape, that appears to be a nod to Sherlock Holmes's notorious recreational drug use, which included morphine.

And then there's Peyote, named after the cactus the produces Mescaline. It's also got religious significance to native Mexican cultures like the Huichol.

Oh and as an extra funky sidenote in all this: Confusingly there's also these three background characters from Haiti(not Jamaica????) who show up just to lose a random mid-tier fight in the Shaman King Tournament and never be seen again, but they don't have any kind of drug theme to their names????(also they practice vodou which at least makes sense with Haiti, but Takei didn't make them Rastafari when he drew them like that??) Like, that one dude IS weed...

Also, frankly, kind of shocking that we didn't get some kind of magic mushroom/psilocybin themed shaman at any point...

It's funny to me how this guy was a total throw away character in the actual story but clearly Takei liked him enough to bring him back in multiple sequels/spinoffs. It's kind of weird considering he's mostly just a bunch of awkward cliches about Mexico, but he's also really cool? I feel like Takei must have really liked him to have brought him back up as often as he did.

Also super funny to me that they had to change his name in English twice --in the anime they just called him "Ramiro," but Viz tried to be clever and called him "Tecolote"-- but his original name is straight up PEYOTE. So along with The Asakura family and Lyserg Diethal he's yet another Shaman King character named after drugs.

[shironezuninja]

This IS what you want, isn’t it, Shirakage Mouse??🥰

[moontheoretist]

Me too, Yoh. Me too. Also, this moment when your grandson is like “I don’t want to become a Shaman King” and then you tell him how awesome being one is, and he changes his mind, because he would then be able to achieve exactly what he wanted when he said he doesn’t want to be one. Yoh, you were such a dumbass kid xD How can you achieve ultimate leisure if you have to work for that to happen? That doesn’t computer. This logic makes no sense XD

[zerefdragneel045]

Character presentation 4: Asakura Yohmei

[kr210]

Chapter Two : The Main House

This is Chapter Two of my Shaman King fic with Asakura Kiyoku. I hope you all enjoy it

Summary:

Kiyoku get's used to her new life at the Main Asakura house as she grows into becoming a powerful Shaman including experiencing her first vision.

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The main Asakura household was huge. Little Kiyoku was speechless as she was enchanted by the house and property in Izumo, Japan. Yohmei looked down at her scoffing at how sad the Branch family really was compared to the main house. “Come on now,” Yohmei told her, encouraging her to enter the house and the property of her new home.

Yohmei introduced her to her cousin, Asakura Yoh. He told her she would assist him in the upcoming Shaman Fights tournament. He told her he would train her to become a proper Shaman unlike her family and in return she would submit her power to the main Asakura family but more specifically to Asakura Yoh himself.

Yohmei showed her to her own room and introduced her to Tamamura Tamao, another helper around the Asakura household. He told her that Tamao wouldn’t be around much as she was training with Yoh’s father Mikihisa. Kiyoku was simply grateful that the main household would allow her to stay here along with training her. Here at the main house she didn’t feel like she didn’t belong. Instead she felt good being there and like she belonged there.

Her days were very repetitive there. She would wake up before everyone else and make breakfast. By the time breakfast was done Yoh and Yohmei were awake and she would serve them then join them to eat. On rare occasions Mikihisa and Tamao would join them all for breakfast. No one would eat until everyone was seated.

After breakfast Yoh and Kiyoku would go outside for training with Yohmei. He would train them together and force them to learn and fight against one another. Yoh would often find himself having more fun than training or would sneak away. Kiyoku on the other hand would train often but her training mostly consisted with controlling her Furyoku.

After morning training Yoh and Kiyoku were in charge of making lunch. They teamed up making sure that lunch was done on time and would be done well. The two of them worked hard together although Yoh would try almost anything to get out of it but Kiyoku constantly reminded him that they would both get in trouble if he didn’t help out. Guilt never sat well with Yoh so he was in a sense, forced to help out. They served lunch and would eat together with Yohmei. Sometimes Tamao would join them.

After lunch Yohmei would attend to his own work. Sometimes he would take Kiyoku with him since she was learning how to use all the elements and get her nature spirits to divine things for her. When he didn’t take her, Yoh and her were allowed to have time off. Yoh would take a nap or catch up on the latest B.O.B. album. Kiyoku would spend her free time connecting with the nature spirits. When dinner time would roll around Kiyoku, Tamao and Yoh were required to prepare. Yohmei wouldn’t eat dinner with the kids. Instead he would excuse himself to his room so that he could prepare for the next day and the kids were responsible for their night care. Eating dinner. Bathing. And getting ready for bed. Yoh often would be found falling asleep with his headphones on some B.O.B. cassette tape was playing. After fighting with Ponchi and Conchi, Tamao would end up falling asleep exhausted. Kiyoku was lulled to sleep with wind spirits and earth spirits whispering the sounds of nature in her ears.

It was like this everyday for two years until Yoh attended proper school. Then Kiyoku’s schedule changed.

Still in the mornings she was required to get up before everyone to prepare breakfast. She was even required to help Yoh prepare his lunch for the day as well. Yoh, being the good person he is, instead would try to help his little cousin out by preparing his own lunch. Kiyoku was thankful for the one less chore. The three of them would then eat breakfast. Sometimes Tamao and Mikihisa joined them. Other times only Tamao would join them. But they always ate breakfast together as a family.

Yohmei would take Yoh to the bus stop and the heir to the Asakura family was off. While Yohmei was out with Yoh, Kiyoku cleaned up breakfast and would prepare things for Yohmei’s work schedule. Yohmei already knew his great niece was capable of great things so he would focus her training on the same type of Shaman Powers of himself. She was to learn how to channel the elements to divine the future much like Yohmei could. But the difference was that Kiyoku should be more gifted at it since the child was already declared a Shaman of Nature by the nature spirits. Yohmei had high hopes for the girl.

By the time Yohmei would return Kiyoku would be waiting at the gate of the main entrance of the property so they could go see Yohmei’s clients. Yohmei would be kind enough to collect his things and carry them. The only job Kiyoku was to do was observe and learn.

After each client Yohmei would quiz and question her on what she learned. He would never try to have her divine as her furyoku was already still unstable. She was unable to control it and couldn’t keep it locked up in her body like a proper Shaman but for now it wasn’t releasing a lot therefore Yohmei wasn’t too concerned.

Yohmei would drop Kiyoku off at home before he would go and pick up Yoh at the bus stop. While home Kiyoku would put away all of Yohmei’s work stuff before she would prepare a snack for Yoh once he returned.

After snack and homework Yoh and Kiyoku would prepare for afternoon training. Yoh would learn to fight against Kiyoku and Kiyoku would learn how to control and use her Furyoku under Yohmei’s supervision.

When the air got cold and night began to fall Yohmei would still have the children prepare their own nightly routines. The children were to bathe, brush their teeth and expected to put themselves to sleep. As always Yohmei would prepare for the next day while the children got ready for bed. He was usually asleep by the time the children were as well.

This continued until the Winter before Yoh turned 11. It was one afternoon when Yoh returned home early to find Yohmei and Kiyoku in the living room. Kiyoku was practicing her divination. Yohmei was quite surprised to see his grandson home early from school. “We’re on winter break,” he had explained to his grandson. Yohmei made some comment but Kiyoku wasn’t paying attention as the spirits were whispering to her. She flipped over one of Yohmei’s cards and looked at him. “The spirits predict that this winter will be an average winter,” she told Yohmei. Yoh used this chance to escape to the day room since he was off school. Yohmei on the other hand glanced down at the table and nodded his head. “Very good,” he told her, reading the same outcome as his great niece. Kiyoku let out a sigh of happiness.

The next day Kiyoku joined Yoh and Tamao in the day room while Yoh was talking about this fiancee he was supposed to me in Aomori with his grandmother. Confused, she walked in and sat between the two while Conchi and Ponchi made some sort of sexual joke about this girl that Kiyoku didn’t understand. But the two perverted spirits were interrupted by a cat spirit named Matamune. “Good afternoon Matamune-san” Kiyoku greeted him. Confusion and Shock crossed Yoh and Tamao’s faces. “You know this cat Kiyoku?” Yoh asked. “Of course. Matamune is a cat spirit that has lived in this house for about 1500 years.” she said. Matamune chuckled. “I can see why the natures are fond of you Kiyoku-dono” she giggled.

“Ah, animal spirits are part of nature that’s why they are drawn to you” Yoh put two and two together. Kiyoku nodded. “T-then why doesn’t Ponchi and Conchi try to go near you?” she hesitantly asked. The other Asakura looked at the pink hair girl. “That’s because the other nature spirits don’t like them either” she commented lying back on the tatami mat. Yoh lightly smacked his right fist on the open palm of his left hand. “That’s it!” He looked at his cousin. “You can divine my meeting with her and tell me how it will go,” he said excitedly. Kiyoku glanced at Yoh’s general direction. “Yohmei-sama wouldn’t want me to predict something like that Yoh-sama” she reminded him of the limitations of her powers. But Yoh was too interested now, “Then how about just for fun?” he asked, giving off that carefree smile of his. Kiyoku thought about it for a second before she said, “Alright. Just for fun. So don’t take my prediction seriously” she commented. Yoh nodded.

Kiyoku left the room to get the practice prediction cards. Tamao and Yoh set up a tea table for Kiyoku to make her prediction on. The shaman was only gone for a few seconds before she returned with the cards. Matamune sat next to Kiyoku at the table. “You can use me to channel your Furyoku,” he told her. She glanced at the cat. “You sure?” she asked. He gave her one solid nod.

Yoh sat across from the table very interested despite the fact that the prediction was not supposed to be serious. Kiyoku channeled Matamune into the cat’s spirit form before she pressed him into the cards and began her prediction. Each card spoke to the girl telling her where it was supposed to be placed. The room began to get a bit chilly as a small draft of wind began to surround the shaman. She placed a few cards in front of Yoh. Other cards were placed on the floor signally that they were not needed or this prediction. Once the table was full of cards faced down and half the deck on the floor, Kiyoku snapped out of her trance. “Alright here we go '' she said reaching for the card closest to Yoh.

Yoh and Tamao both stared at the card intensely. Kiyoku flipped the card. It was a wind card facing upside. “Okay” she said before she reached for the card in the middle of the table. She flipped that over. It was an earth card facing Yoh. “Well that’s good.” she commented and looked up at Yoh. “So far, your fiancee will come into your life in an unexpected way but you two will have a solid relationship” she told him. “That is good” Yoh said. “What else does it say?” Tamao asked, looking at the other face down cards. Kiyoku flipped the card near Tamao. It was the fire card facing upside down. “That’s not good” Yoh said. Kiyoku’s eyes furrowed together as she started flipping the other cards one the table. They were all fire upside. “What does that mean?” Yoh asked her. “I...I don’t know. I’ve never seen this before” she commented looking at the cards. Fire could mean one of two things, death or rebirth. Yoh and Kiyoku exchanged glances. She was about to suggest a prediction when Matamune popped out of the cards sending them flying off the table.

“Ah I’m sorry Matamune-san,” she said, cleaning up the cards. “You still need to practice on your focus Kiyoku-dono. You lost focus and couldn’t keep your oversoul” he pointed out to her. “Right,” she said, looking down as she cleaned up the cards. Matamune looked at Yoh. “I shall accompany you on this journey Yoh-dono. I do not think Yohmei-san would want you to travel so far alone” he assured him. Yoh smiled and nodded his head. Matamune looked at Kiyoku. “This one has the potential to be even more powerful than him.” the cat spirit thought as he stared at the girl. Yoh and Matamune were off the next day to go meet Yoh’s grandmother and his fiancee.

Kiyoku and Tamao were required to stay behind and mind the house while Yohmei used this time to take up extra clients due to the new year. A few days after Yoh and Matamune left Kiyoku was outside meditating under the snowfall when her eyes snapped open and the snow started to surround her. Soon the whole house was covered in a mini blizzard. Several things flashed through Kiyoku’s eyes.

She saw Yoh. A blond girl crying. A large creature she had never seen before. Several snow spirits were screaming and crying. And wind spirits were trying to calm the snow spirits.

Her head started to throb as she grabbed it trying to focus. It was then Yohmei arrived and quickly ran over to the child. “Focus Kiyoku. Focus your Furyoku on one thing” he reminded her. He knew she was having a foretelling prediction. Something shamans of their class would deal with the rest of their lives.

With a deep breath the nine year old closed eyes focusing only on Yoh. “What do you see, child?” Yohmei asked her. “Yoh-sama. He’s with a blond girl. She’s crying” Kiyoku said. “Good, look around you. What else do you see?” he asked her. “Uh Yoh-sama is holding a sword and it looks like he has to fight this big red demon. It’s the size of a temple” she commented. “That’s an Oh-oni. What else do you see?” he asked. “Um...the blond looks sad but she seems fond of Yoh-sama.” Yohmei nodded. “What else?” Yohmei asked. Feeling a little more comfortable, Kiyoku began to focus on the nature spirits. “The snow spirits are upset at the Oni. And the wind spirits are…” Kiyoku began to feel faint. “What are they doing child?” Yohmei asked. “They are trying to comfort the snow spirits,” she said right before she passed out.

The blizzard stopped as soon as the child passed out. Yohmei eased the girl down into the snow. He allowed his own furyoku to materialize the snow spirits so they could lead the child into the house. He would need to make a call to his wife.

Sadly Kiyoku's prediction was something that couldn’t be prevented. By the time Yohmei had called his wife she had informed him that both Yoh, and Anna were out and that Matamune was with them. She had a premonition about this same thing earlier that day. Both of their premonitions were too late for Yoh and his fiancee.

Kiyoku woke up a few days later. Yohmei was sitting next to her futon. He was glad to see her awake. “I almost had to call Keiko to come take care of you. You were burning a fever of over 37C (100F) degrees” he told her. The child sat up and looked down at her blanket. “I'm sorry to cause an inconvenience Yohmei-sama,” she said, frowning. Yohmei placed his hand on her head. “As long as you are feeling better” he told her. She nodded her head. “Rest up. Starting tomorrow I’ll be changing your training. You’re ready to make real predictions now. No more practicing” he said. “Yes sir” determination filled her voice and eyes as she looked up at him. He let out a soft, fond scoff and left his great niece to recover.

Yoh returned home a day later. He told Kiyoku and Tamao about Anna and what happened to Matamune. He also found out what happened to Kiyoku and told his cousin that he was proud of her for becoming a full fledged Shaman now that she had her first real prediction. Despite the loss of Matamune, the Asakura household continued on with daily life.

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[suspicious-and-malicious]

Shaman King: The Asakura Family

Taking Requests

[armyhat210]

Chapter 3 : Qualifications

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 

Summary:

Kiyoku finally learns how to be a proper Shaman and the Qualifications that it takes to be a Shaman. This is just one small step to becoming a powerful nature Shaman that we will see her grow into.

Now that Kiyoku had her first real prediction, Yohmei decided to take her training to the next level. Despite still being a child the first thing she would need to learn is how to harness the nature spirits into proper oversouls. “Despite nature being all around you, you’ll need to learn how to harness it into a proper oversoul. Different biomes will have different nature spirits as well so it’s best you keep other pieces on you in case you need their power” he explained to her. The girl nodded her head. “Your next mission is to gather these different pieces of nature,” he said, handing her a small brown knapsack.

He dropped her off at the base of the mountains and told her he’d be back for her in a week. Kiyoku used this week gathering items of nature that she kept in jars and practiced her oversoul. She collected green leaves that turned into the same little oversoul spirits that Yohmei used. River water for the water spirits. Lose dirt from the base of the mountain for the earth spirits. Ashes and sparks from the small campfires she made at night to stay warm for the fire spirits. And strong winds for the wind spirits. The spirits kept the items in her bag stayed fresh along with the help of her leaking furyoku.

When she returned Yohmei was pleased with this development. The next thing he taught her were cards. “You’ll need to get used to bleeding and pricking your finger. You will be able to write spells and create your own prediction deck.” Kiyoku’s eyes widened when she heard that. Yohmei chuckled. “That’s right. Shamans who create their own spirit decks tend to have a better connection with them and are able to produce clearer predictions” he told her. Interested Kiyoku listened to Yohmei with sparkles in her eyes. Yohmei continued on explaining to her how she would be able to use the items she collected from the mountain as a medium for her deck. “You’ll be able to put your oversoul in the deck and the spirits will tell you which cards you’ll need for your prediction as you have done so before” he continued on.

After his explanation he gave her some paper and a needle. “It will take time creating a deck that suits you. Do not feel rushed.” he told her and left her to learn. It was hard at first but the shaman first got used to the feeling of getting her finger pricked.

Once the finger pricking was easier she learned how to write the kanji for the spirits with her finger. This would take her a couple of months to get used to and learn. Unlike Yoh who got to go to normal school, Kiyoku was taught at home the most basic needs to survive in the world. To Yohmei, his great niece was someone who would die in the Shaman Fights or be married off as an asset to the Asakura clan.

Creating her own deck took time though. A two years went by before the young Shaman was able to create a deck she actually liked. For her small hands she was able to make a small deck that fit in her hands perfectly. There were plenty of cards of each element as that was the most comfortable for her to read. The next step for her was to get the different nature spirits into the cards and keep enough focus to make predictions.

Keeping focus for her was hard as she already had problems with her furyoku leaking out at all times. Despite her age she still struggled with this but Yohmei passed it off as something that couldn’t be helped because of the amount of natural furyoku she had.

Finally at the age of 12 she was somewhat able to control the amount of Furyoku she was leaking out as well as being able to make proper predictions. Although Kiyoku was taught to read prections on the table, her style of predictions was different than Yohmei’s. The cards and nature were something she couldn’t escape and it showed when she made predictions. The cards would float around her as she picked the cards and placed them on the table. Very much like Yohmei, Kiyoku’s predictions were spot on and perfect.

Yoh had turned 13 and moved to Tokyo to prepare for the Shaman Fights. He had his own guardian ghost to seek out now that he had somewhat recovered with the loss of Matamune. He wouldn’t keep in touch as he had his own struggles to deal with. The only excitement was when Yoh’s fiancee Kyoyama Anna visited during the new year and right before she went to go help with Yoh’s training in Tokyo. She was the one who kept the family updated with Yoh’s progress and adventures.

It was a pretty cold night when Kiyoku looked up in the sky to see a meteor shower. “Ah, Yohmei-sama!” she called for her uncle inside the house. He waddled out and saw the falling stars. “The shaman fights are among us,” he told her, looking at the meteor shower. Kiyoku stared at it, taken by how beautiful it looked. “It’s hard to think that something so beautiful is the prelude to something so dark and terrible” she muttered. Yohmei glanced at her. “Your guardian spirits could say the same thing about you. Nature itself is beautiful but it can be destructive.” he reminded her. She nodded her head as they continued to watch.

That night Yohmei made several predictions but he didn’t share any of them with Kiyoku. He also forbade Kiyoku from making any more predictions about the Shaman Fights. Afraid of losing her home she agreed not to do anything that would upset her guardian. As she headed to her room she saw Yohmei in his candle lit room still making predictions with his deck. She pulled her deck out of her dress pocket wanting to make a prediction as well but she knew better. Shaking her head she started to get ready for bed.

Kiyoku wasn’t the type who cared about appearances but tonight for some reason she stared at herself in the bathroom mirror. Without a doubt she had the Asakura hair, the tall brown bangs, and flaring out ends that sprayed on her shoulders. Once she had tried to grow it out but the wind spirits would make it go in her face distracting her and breaking her concentration. Her soft brown eyes were filled with kindness and they were softer than her older cousins.

She wore the same black dress that all the Asakura women wore. Her and Anna used to be the same size but now Anna was taller than her and Kiyoku was wearing her hand me downs. The young Asakura changed into her pajamas and got ready for bed.

The qualifications started to go out. A certain patch member wanted to test both Asakura children Kso one night before he went to see his closest relative he went to see this Shaman of Nature that the Great Spirit told him about. All dressed up in his full gear oversoul he stared down at the young shaman.

Kiyoku was checking the grounds before she was going to head to bed. That’s when this shaman showed himself. “You must be Asakura Kiyoku.” he said looking down at her. Kiyoku looked up at him floating in the sky. Trust him. Trust him. His spirits are one of us. One of us. “Yes. I’m Asakura Kiyoku” she said calmly. “I am Silva of the Patch Tribe here to test you to see if you qualify for the Shaman Fights in Tokyo” he introduced himself.

The younger shaman stared at him in awe and amazement. “Your test will be to land one hit on me with your oversoul” he told her. “Sounds easy enough,” she commented. “Good then let us begin” she heard a different voice on Silva talk. The Nature Shaman looked up to see the head of the eagle looking down on her. The attitude on this one. Attitude. Kiyoku’s face twitched and Silva’s eyes widened. “So it’s true. You can hear its voice” Kiyoku frowned. “I don’t see how it’s so shocking that I can hear the nature spirits. Many Shamans can hear the voices of lots of spirits and ghosts.” she explained. Silva smiled at her.

“It is true that shamans can hear the voices of those who have not joined the Great Spirit, but there are very few that can hear the Great Spirit. Those shamans who can hear are usually the ones who are in tune with its creations. Very much like yourself.” he explained to her. Kiyoku was amazed by this information. Not once had she ever been told that her shaman abilities were tied into the Great Spirit. Silva nodded his head and then said, “Now to participate in the Shaman Fights you must land one hit on me within the time span. You can use whatever medium but you must be able to produce an oversoul.” She nodded understanding this, after all this is what she had been training for, the right to battle in the shaman fights to support her older cousin.

Kiyoku went to reach into her bag but Silva’s eagle caused the knapsack to fall and all her material to fall out. “In the real world you won’t always have resources to use against your opponents.” he lectured her. “Go easy on her. She clearly has never faced real battle” the snake on Silva’s arm commented. Kiyoku on the other hand had a choice. She could try to gather her jars and hope to use one of them to land a hit on Silva or the young shaman could do something she never thought she’d be able to do before. Because the girl leaked furyoku she could actually fuel and give form the spirits of nature all around her. It was a tactic that Yohmei told her never to do but the fact of the matter is, Kiyoku doesn’t know the limit of her powers.

“You have ten minutes,” Silva said as Kiyoku continued to stare at her materials. The Asakura made up her mind as she looked up at Silva. Control requires concentration but letting go only took a single thought, freedom. With a deep sigh, Kiyoku let go of the control she had allowing her furyoku to fall off her body and embed itself into the ground. The earth ate her furyoku as each blade of grass created a small warrior around her. The wind inhaled her furyoku creating small birds floating around her. Silva felt his body getting heavy as he looked down to see these wind spirit birds appearing all around him and landing on him.

Silva looked at Kiyoku to see her distracted due to her trance-like state. He used the snake whip to try and grab her but a sword appeared in the snake's mouth. The little grass spirits had combined themselves and blocked him. The ground below shook with every step the grass warrior took. As it got closer to the Patch member, it grew in size. Silva prepared for battle but Kiyoku is a kind soul, the grass warrior was just a distraction. Instead it was the spirit birds made of our wind spirits that had been surrounding Silva, and went unnoticed by him. When the grass warrior was close enough that Silva was fully focused on him the birds circled Sliva creating a tornado that left several cuts all over Silva's body. The warrior stopped and Kiyoku blinked, snapping out of her trance.

The Patch warrior floated there for a moment before he let out a hearty chuckle. “Very good,” he told her, smiling. His spirits returned to their original forms as he went over to her. “Congratulations,” he said, giving her an oracle bell. Confused, she took it and looked at it. “This is?” she asked. “An oracle bell. And also your ticket to enter the Shaman Fights. With this the great spirit will summon you to the three qualifying rounds before the next stage” he explained. She nodded her head before she bowed. “Thank you.” he nodded to her and took off to the other Asakura he was supposed to meet.

Kiyoku looked at this oracle bell before she heard the door open and saw Yohmei there. He looked both pleased and annoyed. “You let go of your control” he said, frowning. She looked down. “But it wasn’t in vain. At least you got what you needed for the shaman fights” he said waddling over to her. “Pack your bag child. It’s time for you to meet Yoh and Anna in Tokyo” he said. She bowed and then headed inside excited to pack up. It would be the first time in seven years she would get to see a city again.

[kogamiryoken]

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The Asakura Clan

Soul Salvation - Shaman King (2021)

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Yoh’s grandpa: As a future successor of the Asakura Family you must know this. You must know the fate that awaits us, Asakuras. You must know the entire 1,000-year history of Asakuras. And you must know the Asakuras’ true objective.

Yoh’s grandpa: Have I mentioned it’s about us, Asakuras?

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