You cut down the creepy woman as well. It also seemed to disappear into thin air as soon as you cut her down. You cannot examine the demons’ remains in the darkness, so you return the next morning to investigate. Instead of bodies, you find two stone lanterns, or ishitourou, cut perfectly in half where you killed the two. You take this as a sign that the mountain demons were successfully exterminated from the Mount Hachiman. You name you Oodachi Nikkari Aoe, “Nikkari” means to smile creepily/eerily, and “Aoe” is the name of the sword’s school. And with its dark history and haunting name, Nikkari Aoe became an outlier in the Aoe School of religious and divine swords.

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