Immortal Mythos: Bound by Void-Chapter 21: The Stirring Within

Yuki sat alone in the quiet chamber, legs crossed, breath steady. His heartbeat echoed louder than ever in his ears—not out of fear, but something deeper. Something... pulling at him.

His training with Ren and the strange interactions with Himari had left him exhausted, yet strangely aware. Every time he closed his eyes, the void responded faster—no longer a chaotic storm, but something like a whisper. A presence. Watching. Waiting.

Why does it feel like I'm not alone in there anymore?

He tried not to think about the fight with that masked figure—the brutal training, the way his powers had surged and morphed in the heat of desperation. He hadn't meant to lose control. But when the void struck back... it had felt like someone else had guided it. Not him.

No, he thought, clenching his fists. I have to stay in control.

The floor beneath him vibrated faintly. Just once.

He opened his eyes.

"...What was that?"

Outside the window, the air shimmered. Barely perceptible—but definitely there. Like heatwaves rippling in the cold. Yuki stood, walking slowly to the window. The sky looked normal... but he felt something behind it. Like a second sky layered just above it, invisible but pressing.

He touched the glass.

Then flinched.

A vision—brief, like a flash—struck him. A massive silhouette standing in a sea of swirling black. Eyes glowing red. And a voice... cold and familiar.

"You're not ready. But you will be. Soon."

Yuki staggered back, falling to his knees.

"What the hell was that?"

His breath came heavy. But no one else had felt it. No alarms. No sounds. Just... him. Again.

Was that... the void? No, someone was inside it.

He looked at his hand, noticing the faint black shimmer dancing around his fingers before fading again. The void was changing.

Or rather—he was.

And somewhere out there... something was waiting.

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Far from Yuki's room, the wind howled unnaturally high in the mountains.

Ren's eyes snapped open.

He stood atop a high cliff, arms folded, letting the gusts rush past him. But this time, the wind didn't carry the usual harmony of the world—it was screaming. Whispering madness.

He gritted his teeth.

"The void is moving again..." he muttered. "No, something inside it is waking."

A swirl of air gathered around him involuntarily, reacting to his rising tension.

Behind him, Himari stood still, her eyes locked on a fading mark in the sky that no one else could see. A subtle crack in reality—barely visible to the untrained eye.

"He's close to awakening," she whispered.

Ren turned slightly toward her, sensing the weight of her words. "Are you saying it's time?"

Himari shook her head slowly. "No... something else is stirring with him. Something even I can't see clearly."

At that moment—far away in the heart of a quiet temple—Aiko gasped, jolting awake.

Her forehead glistened with sweat. Her aura vision had triggered by itself, pulling her into a space of absolute black. She had seen the same silhouette Yuki had seen... and it terrified her.

"That... thing was watching him," she whispered to herself, clutching her chest. "Watching all of us."

Her connection to Yuki had grown stronger, enough that she could feel when his energy shifted. But this—this wasn't just him. This was something else trying to reach through him.

Who are you?

Meanwhile, deeper in the forest, cloaked in shadows and silence, a figure stood with his back pressed against a gnarled tree.

Nogitsune.

His smile was unreadable, eyes closed, yet perfectly aware.

"So, the void finally growls back," he whispered.

He reached out, fingers slicing the air with precision. For a second, the wind around him twisted—before being sucked inward, as if space itself had blinked.

"Little brother... you're catching up faster than I expected."

His eyes opened—sharp, glinting with restrained excitement.

"But you'll need more than raw power. You'll need to know who your enemies really are."

He vanished, the shadows swallowing him whole.

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