Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 159 - Tiger Circle Arena
The aura Nagato unleashed formed a small sea of flames burning Ryuzaki. The fire that burned his body, was unable to make Ryuzaki hurt. His skin hardened as Ryuzaki concentrated his aura to become a defense throughout his body.
Ryuzaki shouted loudly as his hands shot out the blazing flames towards him. Nagato smiled faintly seeing Ryuzaki start to seriously fight against him. There was no fear of Nagato. The five-year-old who had seen the cruelty of the world was certainly mentally different, Nagato's personality should have been destroyed, but his encounters with his first friends like Litha, Iris, Chaika, Chiaki, were all broken, Hika and Tika make the gaping black hole in Nagato's heart begin to be covered. Even thanks to his dead adoptive sister, Nagato became eager to keep Asha's childhood dream.
Nagato no longer wanted to lose anyone, because it was so painful. With definite footsteps, Nagato threw a punch in the direction of Ryuzaki.
"Buck!" Ryuzaki exchanged attacks with Nagato for a few minutes, when Ryuzaki started to give off a pitch-black aura emanating from his true nature, Nagato's body was unable to move. A pitch-black aura of hatred, malevolence and human nature shot out from Ryuzaki's body.
Shirayuki who saw that quickly released her white aura towards Ryuzaki. Ice freezes the entire front yard of the East Sun Lodge. Ryuzaki's body is frozen by Shirayuki's surprise attack.
"Not shameless! You should be the old one giving in with the young one!" Shirayuki formed dozens of swords with her inner strength, then she pointed all those ice swords towards Ryuzaki's head.
Nagato adjusted his breathing while looking at Shirayuki who was walking towards him.
"Nagato, don't waste your energy fighting people like him. You need to focus on the competition." Shirayuki rebuked Nagato who was still visibly emotional.
Ryuzaki clucked resentfully at seeing Shirayuki who could stop him easily, with all his might destroying the ice that froze his body.
"Shirayuki!" Ryuzaki stared intently at Shirayuki who was with Nagato.
Shirayuki blasted her ice sword attack right towards Ryuzaki's head. Everyone was shocked to see Shirayuki who was about to kill one of the Ten Elders Kai just to protect Nagato.
"Go from here! I won't let you touch Nagato one bit!" Shirayuki again created dozens of ice swords that flew rapidly towards Ryuzaki.
Ryuzaki vexedly left the East Sun Inn. Nagato's actions attracted the attention of warriors from other clans, young warriors who were about to enter the competition were amazed by Nagato who dared to fight against one of the Ten Elders Kai.
"Aunt Shirayuki .. sorry, what I did made my aunt ashamed," said Nagato feeling guilty for his actions making the Fuyumi Clan's good name look bad, but affectionately Shirayuki touched Nagato's cheek.
"Your actions are not wrong, look at all of them. Everyone is proud of you" Shirayuki told Nagato to look at the swordsman from another clan who saw her fight with Ryuzaki.
Nagato smiled faintly seeing everyone pleased with him, then he went to calm himself down inside the hot pool.
The last two days for the preparation of the Tiger Tournament Kai exceeded Nagato's expectations. In order for him to fight with his physical condition ready, Nagato slept fast tonight.
The night in the sky of Daifuzen City was blood red, whether the moon showed a good or bad sign, which was clearly the calm in Daifuzen Capital was gripping.
All the young warriors had been looking forward to a competition to prove themselves as the most genius young swordsman, of all the different goals, Nagato trembled his hands as he could not wait to fight with a young swordsman of his age.
"I want to see how far I've progressed" Nagato said before falling asleep in his bed.
The night did not feel more and more passed, a bright morning made the Capital of Daifuzen become more lively and crowded today.
When morning came, Nagato and the rest of the warriors from the Fuyumi Clan woke up earlier than usual days. Nagato as usual only slept for two to three hours, his eyes looking increasingly sharp.
Nagato saw that Iris, Litha, Hika and Tika had made preparations to immediately rush off for the Kai Tiger Tournament.
"Effort your best and fight beyond your means, the five of you'll have to prove it in this competition." Emi said to the five young warriors representing the Fuyumi Clan.
Before leaving for the Tiger Circle Arena, Emi excitedly had all the warriors from the Fuyumi Clan form a circle and shouted loudly.
"Shameful" Nagato said after shouting. Despite the competition, Nagato still wears a white fox mask.
"You yelled, too" Iris pinched Nagato's hand slowly.
"I'm just getting carried away..."Nagato blushed in embarrassment.
All the warriors from the eastern stronghold exited the inn, they stared at each other before stepping foot towards the Tiger Circle Arena which was in the center of Daifuzen Capital.
Nagato smiled faintly at Renji and Takao walking with the Kitakaze Clan's entourage. One of the genius young warriors from the Mangetsu Clan approached Nagato and greeted him.
"Until you meet at the competition" Tatara told Nagato as he continued to walk past the entourage of the Fuyumi Clan. Nagato stared intently at Tatara who was back walking with the Mangetsu Clan troupe.
"Who is he?" Nagato stared intently at Tatara who had a calm aura. According to Nagato the figure of Tatara is not a young swordsman who is reckless and arbitrary like others, including Nagato himself.
The city streets were so crowded, people were jostling each other to see the Kai Tiger Tournament. After traveling for thirty minutes to the Tiger Circle Arena where the Tiger Kai Tournament was held, Nagato held his sword to calm himself down.
The Fuyumi Clan entourage attracted attention with the clothes they wore, as well as the young swordsmen representing the Clan.
Ten Elders Kai tasked the officers of the Tiger Circle Arena to put the warrior on the lookout for the greatest youth fighting competition in the Kai Empire.
The Tiger Circle Arena which had a large and majestic capacity with a capacity of spectators reaching seventy thousand spectator seats, had all been fully filled. The thunderous sounds of spectators filled the entire corner of the Tiger Circle Arena.
Ten Elders Kai arranged a seat in the Tiger Circle Arena according to the split of the two opposing clans, regardless of what Satra thought of as the organizing committee for the Kai Tiger Tournament. Satra's direction was seen to divide the two peaceful western and eastern clans, although peace was written only on a piece of paper.
The average participant of Tiger Tournament Kai had entered this tournament from the age of twelve, as a beginner certainly Nagato should not underestimate his opponents later.
The big stadium named Tiger Circle Arena has been full, although still the preliminary round turns out many people who see this annual tournament event.
As time went by, the spectator benches throughout the Tiger Circle Arena were filled to the brim. There was one podium that Nagato was concerned about. His eyes stared intently at Emperor Hizen, Yuki and the former emperor Genki who was Nagato's grandfather.
Emperor Hizen's family was heavily guarded Ten Kai Elders who sat on the same luxurious bench as the emperor's family.
One of the Ten Elders of Kai named Mujin descended into the middle of the vast field, where the fight between young warriors used later.
Five nobles whose names were widely known in the Kai Empire were also present to watch the Kai Tiger Tournament. The five nobles were Nobles Kitakaze, Nobles Kochi, Nobles Minami, Nobles Seibu, and Nobles Seifu.
The five nobles hired warriors to look after their families. Not how long everyone in the Tiger Circle Arena was silent.
Participants who participate in the competition have also prepared a seat that is luxurious enough to get a turn to compete.
As Satra stood up from the bench, everyone stared at Satra who wanted to say something to them.
The wind was blowing quietly, slowly but surely the wind was getting stronger making the field that was in the Tiger Circle Arena dusty.