Chapter 4 - Who is the Enemy?

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This is the penultimate chapter.
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It's pretty dark. You can hardly see anything. I just know that Yoh and Ren walk in front of me and Manta behind me. You are looking for a torch so that you can see something. “Ah, here's one.” I hear Ren say. And suddenly it's a little brighter. But I don't get much of any of that. I feel His presence. My head hurts and despite the torch I feel in this world again. This world where there is no light. This world where I met for the first time. I feel myself getting goosebumps. This building is no longer the same. It’s so different. The lack of presence of the spirits also bothers me. And again this fear overtakes me. This fear that I hate so much. A fear that holds me tight. I feel like I'll never be happy again ...
"Ren, where should we go?" That voice ... Yoh ... pulls me out of my gloomy thoughts.I look around and notice that we have already walked a long way. I have not noticed it. I hate myself for letting a guy get me down like that. "Preferably in the throne room. That's where it all started.", Ren replies to Yoh's question. "Well then let's go." We continue down a long corridor. It was dark here too. Nowhere does the light work. It was pitch dark everywhere. "Ren? Where are your ghosts?" I'm nervous. And that question was the first one I asked in this house. Maybe that was why Ren was a little surprised. "To be honest, Anna, I don't know. When this whole story started, they all disappeared. Suddenly. Only Bason stayed. I think it was because he was on his mortuary tablet." Ren saw his tablet at. “He hasn't come out since the other spirits disappeared.” Even now, Yoh seems to notice the absence of his guardian spirit, because he takes his tablet from his belt.I sense why that is so. "This present tense. It seems to scare even the spirits." "But will they then be able to fight?" Manta asks worried. "That depends," I say. "It depends on the bond between Yoh and Ren and their spirits. They have to come out, although they are afraid. And they can only do that if they feel something that encourages them." Yoh looks at Ren and Ren at Yoh. Suddenly Yoh starts grinning. "That won't be a problem. Amidamaru and I are friends and as long as I'm there nobody will harm him. And he knows that too." Then Ren starts to grin too. "Bason and I have been fighting together for a long time and so far we've always won." "Except against me," laughs Yoh. Ren's smile twisted. But only for a short time. Now I have to grin too. Yoh's joke cheered us all up a bit. "So let's get this whole thing over here."
Yoh is the first to walk into the room. Immediately afterwards Ren, me and Manta come.This huge room was dark too. But I can see that here too, as in the rest of the castle, much has been destroyed. The pillars lie on the ground - many of them completely destroyed. The throne has also been destroyed. The individual parts are distributed across the entire room. And there it is again ... That presence. I feel my head start pounding. Slowly I notice how this darkness comes over me again. This fear, this paralyzing fear, is spreading through me again. But before I am completely drawn into this world, I feel like someone shakes me. "Anna! Don't let him wrap you up again! You mustn't get weak!" Yoh ... That voice. It's yoh. I am happy because the darkness is receding. "Yoh ..." That's the only thing I can get out. My throat is dry My throat hurts. I would like to say something, but I can't. "Yes, it's me. I'm there. Don't worry. Just don't let yourself be drawn into his then, okay?"The pictures are slowly coming back. And then I see him. He has put his hands on my shoulders. Only now do I notice that I am also sitting on the floor." I almost passed out again. How I hate that! " I feel how Yoh 's hands come off my shoulders. He stands up. "Manta, please stay with her! And make sure she doesn't faint again, okay? "" Yes I will!
“Where are you?” Yoh screams across the hall. "What do you want from us? Finally leave Anna alone!"> I've never seen him like this before. What does he have? I've never seen him when he's so upset. Why? Why now? Because of ...? Oh no, I'm blushing again! But why? Why at Yoh? I've known him for so long and I've never had such a feeling. I'm so confused. <"So you are really here." I startle. This voice. I know you! "Yoh, Yoh! That's him. That's the guy!" My throat hurts. That's why I get these words out very hard.But I know he heard me. "Yes, we are. You brought us here. So finally say what you want!" It remains silent. Nobody moves. I can only hear the breath of the others. “I wanted to get to know Anna once.” I startle. > That's exactly what he said when we met for the first time! <I can feel the others looking at me. I see some kind of horror on their faces. My heart beats fast. As if it wanted to jump out of my chest. “Wh- why?” My body was shaking. Such a feeling ... "WHY?" I scream with my last strength. I screamed so loud that it made me cough. In the background I just hear the voice laughing. That laugh. It feels like my blood is freezing. "I can tell you why. There is a lot of talk about you in the spirit world." "In the spirit world?" muttered Yoh. "Yes, exactly. I haven't been alive for 1000 years." Silence. I can't understand what he said.Is he a ghost? For 1000 years? How can that be? Is he the spirit of a shaman? "You are probably wondering how that can be. A ghost appears after 1000 years and wants to meet a little Itako. And I don't even have a shaman. Well, how does that work?" He starts to laugh again. > Then that feeling ... that presence that I felt all along was a ghost? A ghost that couldn't actually be here at all? It cannot be that after 1000 years he just comes into this world on his own ... <I'm afraid. I would love it if we never found out what he was all about. But of course I know that this is not possible. I slowly try to get up. "Anna ..." I don't know how I did it, but suddenly I was standing in front of them. "So you wanted to meet me ?! Well, here I am! Finally say what you want and then disappear. Finally take this darkness away from me ... These fears I've never felt before ... Leave us alone!"Silence. Again that oppressive silence. I don't see the others, but I can sense the expression on their faces. I've just shown weakness for the first time. For the very first time I've admitted that I'm scared.> Now I'm sure the others can't respect me like they used to. "Suddenly a bang.