The encounter

What now? said sako looking the lack of magical entities around her.

Now you need to make a solemn recitation. said renzo and handed her a paper sheet.

Sako looked at the sheet it was filled with Kanji charaters, she was not very experienced in reading Kanji but she knew how to, she started to read the sheet, it was a poem and she progressed slowly, meanwhile the boys took cover behind some tombstones and looked at sako closely, snickering among themselves, while she kept her mind busy reading they kept their eyes busy looking at her, they had already seen and touched her body but they didn't felt like it was enough, they felt unable to take their eyes of sako's little but cute breasts, her round and firm butt carefully covered in ash by their hands, it was mesmerizing.

After sako was at midst of reading the poem suddenly she heard noise coming from the bushes straight ahead of her, was that the tengu?, the ritual worked? she thought and her heart started to pump fast in excitement, she heard the noise coming closer and braced herself, she was about to see a tengu, the noise stopped and waited for it to come out, then she waited, and she waited more but didn't see anything came out of the bushes nor she heard the noise again, she waited and waited more until she concluded that nothing was coming out of the bushes, there was no tengu after all.

Sako felt terribly disappointed, were after all tengus just fairy tales? Did the boys lied to her? No, no, they were hunting this tengu even before they knew she was here she was about to ask the boys an explanation for the lack of the tengu but she couldn't see them anywhere around, when she read the poem in the sheet she lost sight of them and didn't see when they hid behind the tombstones, although they were not far and were able to see sako perfectly, sako could not see them.

Did they leave? Was she tricked into stripping and groped by just a bunch of boys with a ridiculous story? sako felt burning anger at the thought of being tricked like that but despair replaced the fear when she remembered that she had forgotten the way back. How was she going to get back home now without them? Sako felt more anxious at every second at the thought of being left behind, to make things worse while she was trying to convince herself that they couldn't have left her behind an horrendous scream ripped through the calmness and silence of the night.

The scream was so sudden and loud that made every hair on sako's body to stand on their ends, she turned her head to the direction where the scream came from when another scream equally loud and even more frightful came from the opposite direction inspiring fear in every muscle of sako's body and making her turn immediately, then she heard strange sounds coming from the top of the trees, like if something was moving from one tree to another making some leaves fall in the process.

She heard flaps of wings, and more screams and noises coming from all directions, making her turn her head to where the noise came from everytime, sako felt more and more frightened as seconds went by, she felt like "that" was everywhere and always behind her, prepared to attack her from the back.

One more scream a lot louder and terrifying than all the ones she heard before made her turn her head one more time and she saw a large and horrendous anthropomorphized monkey with wings, it also had a red face and their characteristic unusually large nose. Gliding from the trees straight towards her.

Sako felt like her soul was about to leave her body because of the fright and screaming at top of her lungs and ran swiftly into the forest, she ran downhill deep down the forest unable to see a thing through the darkness of night bumping with trees and tigs, but this time luck was with her and she didn't fell or got hurt during her frenetical run except from a few bruises.

Once outside the forest she was able to breathe in peace and recover from her recent experience, she had just saw it with her own eyes, tengus were indeed real and nobody were able to tell her otherwise, she almost died from the fright and maybe if it caught her she would have died too, but it didn't matter compared to the experience of seeing such an unbelievable creature by herself.

also she didn't get lost in the forest, this time luck was much on her side and at the end of her freneticall run she ended in the same place where she met with the boys, from where she was she could clearly see the town and the main road, with this she felt more than accomplished and walked home with a smile on her face.