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[h2][color=darkorange][b]FUJIMURA[/b][/color][/h2]
[h3]Foreigner's Lowlands
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[color=darkorange]"... Huh, that was easier than I thought."[/color]

[b]FUJIMURA[/b] crossed his arms and laughed, adjusting his glasses. Having finally caught the Dead Apostle, he started to think about what to do with it. His men circled the Dead Apostle, as well, confident that it wouldn't be able to do much in its containment. They weren't far from the truth, either, as the mana from these lands were all drained out. It was something [b]FUJIMURA[/b] knew he had to get to the bottom of, but he could save worrying about that for the meeting. For now, though, [b]FUJIMURA[/b] dropped the subdued ghoul on the ground, not worrying too much about it. Not like it was on fire or anything; there isn't any mana around to really accomplish that, after all. No, he needed it alive in case its master, this Dead Apostle, managed to escape.

[color=darkorange]"... Oh, wait! I got it! Alright, boys, like we talked about earlier, if he turned out to be faster than me! Let's go!"[/color]

[b]FUJIMURA[/b]'s men all nodded, before stomping a foot on the ground three times, each stomp occurring at the increment of one second. The stomps didn't seem arbitrary, as with each stomp, the men moved more and more in unison. It seems like they were all trying to synchronize their movements in order to move "as one," while at the same time, motivating each other with some sort of cheer. Once they have reached the closest they could to being synchronized, [b]FUJIMURA[/b] stomped a foot to the ground with a fair amount of his might, leaving a notable indenture into the ground.

[color=darkorange]"Let's go! Three... two... one..."[/color]

[center][color=darkorange][b]"Freeze, Monster! Stay where you are!"[/b][/color][/center]

Invoking the power of another 'Grand Mob Ritual', [b]FUJIMURA[/b] and his men impose their will, once again, this time reaching out to the [i]actual[/i] Monster who had onced plague them. Not even a second after, [b]FUJIMURA[/b] leaped to the Dead Apostle, a hand pulled back as if to strike him. And indeed, this strike would be true, as a conceptual attack on the level of a grand ritual would be hard to resist for a monster like this. Not without preparation, at least. This Dead Apostle would do nothing but watch as [b]FUJIMURA[/b]'s palm struck right into its chest...

[color=darkorange]"You're mine, bloodsucka!"[/color]

... The attack, however, was rather weak. Well, in normal human standards, it would be enough to knock the wind out of a breathing person, but for [b]FUJIMURA[/b], whose strength has reached nearest to the height of what a human could accomplish, it was merely just a soft tap to his chest, in comparison. This attack, however, was the least of this Dead Apostle's concern as [b]FUJIMURA[/b] jumped back as soon as his palm made impact. Chuckling for a moment before taking off his sunglasses, [b]FUJIMURA[/b] looked directly into his opponent's eyes, grinning as if he was in on some joke.

[color=darkorange]"Now, then... how about you tell me your name, how you became [i]that thing[/i], and why you have it out for me and my boys. That's an order!"[/color]

What seemed like an arbitrary command felt like something this Dead Apostle could not ignore. It was an order that he had to follow, as if his whole existence was controlled by [b]FUJIMURA[/b]'s words. This was not due to another conceptual attack, per say, nor was it the likes of a smaller-scaled 'Grand Mob Ritual'. It was just something that this Dead Apostle was absolutely compelled to do. Of course, this is because [b]FUJIMURA[/b] has made this Dead Apostle his own shikigami.

Shikigami are a symbol of power to Onmyouji. As their own version of the Western 'familiar', shikigami are made by the user placing a portion of their life force into a dead or non-living object. While they prove to be, to some degree, more efficient than familiars, they also take a toll on the user as they drain their life-force, so long as they exist. Of course, to [b]FUJIMURA[/b], whose own existence was monstrous compared to a normal human's, he is capable of creating as many as fifty without taking too much of a toll on his own life, and even then, his skill at the art is enough to 'cut the tie', allowing him to safely create and maintain a vast number of shikigami at once without them draining from his own power. Because [b]FUJIMURA[/b] is capable of turning anything non-living, including the dead, all he needed to do was to transfer the minimum amount of life force needed in order to turn this Dead Apostle, this walking corpse, into his own Servant. And because [b]FUJIMURA[/b]'s existence completely towers over this newly made Dead Apostle's, he only needed to place a paltry amount of his life force within this being to successfully bend it to his will. All [b]FUJIMURA[/b] needed to do was transfer a small amount of his life force into the Dead Apostle and...

... In other words, [b]FUJIMURA[/b] has effectively turned his opponent into his slave.