Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 191 - Azuma's identity

Azuma stared at the faces of Nagato and the others for quite a while, they all looked very curious.

"My name is..." Azuma held back a laugh when he saw the faces of Nagato and the others growing curious. Not long after he coughed softly and said, "What did you do after knowing my name?"

Nagato clucked in annoyance at having been very curious about Azuma's real name. With his face seemingly indifferent Nagato replied, "I don't really care, if you don't tell me your name, I won't tell you my name either." Hisui the youngest among the others just kept quiet and listened.

"The name of this handsome older brother is Fuyumi Nagato. Why is Grandpa Azuma so curious about the name of handsome brother?" Nagato furrowed his brows when he saw Hisui's face not staring at him.

"This spoiled boy!" Nagato was full of annoyance.

Azuma laughed at Nagato who looked annoyed, while Hisui now looked at Nagato who looked annoyed looking intently at him.

"What's a handsome boy?" Hisui with his innocent face asked Nagato.

"There's nothing, I'm just stunned to see your pretty eyes." Nagato forced his smile.

"Attractive, interesting, so your name is Nagato. Relax, I'll tell you my name..." Azuma laughed at seeing the timid Hisui after Nagato praised him.

"My name is Satsuma. I was a fugitive, all this time I hid my identity after my body aura was covered and my strength was paralyzed." Hisui was the first to be surprised.

"Sister Azuma turns out to be Satsuma?!" Hisui still could not believe it.

"Sorry Princess Hisui. All this time I've been lying about my identity to you." Satsuma smiled wryly and said, "Because after all I have to stay alive even with a fake name, it's lucky that no one noticed it, anyway, and I got a job as the one who takes care of this Kagutsuchi Temple from Commander Goro. It's our secret." Satsuma let out a laugh after speaking for quite a long time.

"Satuma? I've heard of it from Grandpa Hyo..." Nagato muttered softly and looked at Litha.

"Satsuma is the one Grandpa Hyogoro talked about. He's among your father's followers, Nagato..." Litha whispered softly in Nagato's ear.

"Uncle Satsuma. Do you know Grandpa Hyogoro?" Nagato did not expect to see his father's followers but Satsuma's condition was very concerning.

Satsuma was surprised to hear Grandpa Hyogoro's name but he hid his surprise. His head nodded and his mouth said, "I am well acquainted with Boss Hyogoro."

Nagato and Litha just smiled, while Iris and the others were curious about the thing Nagato, Litha and Satsuma were talking about.

"I just want to ask that, I'm already quite satisfied with your answer, Uncle Satsuma." Nagato clenched his teeth before ending the conversation, "But I'm not completely satisfied yet, can you tell me the true events about my father?!"

"Yes, I'll tell you once you've been able to become the champion of the Kai Tiger Tournament." Satsuma's witty face turned serious.

"Wait on! Grandpa Azuma is the same handsome brother again saying what the hell?! Why do you two know each other?" Hisui looked confused as well as Iris, Hanabi, Hika and Tika.

"Nagato was an acquaintance disciple of Grandpa Azuma so it was certain Grandpa Azuma knew him a little." Satsuma smiled kindly at Hisui.

The reason was accepted Hisui easily, not long after Satsuma started telling stories.

"Do you know the creature that is predicted as the strongest creature in the water, the land and the air? People usually refer to the legendary creature as a Dragon." Satsuma looked at Hisui who was smiling because the cute-eyed girl really liked the story.

"What does the Dragon have to do with the name of the Tiger Tournament Kai? I don't think it has anything to do with it at all..." Tika responded to Satsuma's words. The sweet twin girl closed her eyes, while her thumb and index fingers were fixed on her chin.

"It actually has nothing to do, it's just that the person who gave the name of the fighting competition between young warriors who until now were known as the Kai Tiger Tournament was the ancestor of the Kagutsuchi Clan. Long ago, 2000 years ago, before the ancestors of the Kagutsuchi Clan came to the Ezzo Continent, they had fought with Dragons in the outside world, according to legend, Dragons have become their natural enemies. What animal do you think can defeat a dragon?" Satsuma with his panda carried Nagato and the others flying into his story.

"Tiger?" Hika, Tika and Hisui replied together, while Iris and Hanabi just silently listened.

"Cats ... Chibi is here," Litha said breaking the serious mood, Nagato just smiled at her.

"Other Tigers and Cats. The animal that will defeat the Dragon is Garuda." Nagato gave his opinion. Hearing that of course Iris who was putting on a serious face immediately laughed softly, while Hanabi just silently looked at Nagato.

"Your dragon is weird" Iris said softly as she covered her laughing mouth.

"Why can you say that Garuda will defeat the Dragon?" Satsuma looked at Nagato curiously. He was curious about Nagato's answer.

"It just crossed my mind that Garuda could defeat the Dragon." Nagato was still staring at Iris who was chuckling.

Satsuma just smiled and stroked his beard, then he resumed his story.

"The Kagutsuchi family could always use tiger stream sword techniques, dragon flow techniques and sunflow techniques. The three techniques continued to be passed down through generations, the one who could master all three sword techniques perfectly did not exist until now. Even the last leader of the Kagutsuchi Clan named Kagutsuchi Sura with his nephew named Kagutsuchi Pandu only mastered the three sword techniques in half. The one who could master the three sword techniques that were said to be legendary had his name on the golden inscription that was in the Sun Valley, only that I could not read it." Nagato stared intently at Satsuma. He was curious about Satsuma's past.

"What does this have to do with tigers?" Nagato asked Satsuma out of curiosity.

"I heard the story from the Great Master Sura if the ancestor of the Kagutsuchi Clan named Ashura could cut off the Dragon's body after mastering the entire tiger stream sword technique. It is likely that the name of the person listed on the gold inscription is Kagutsuchi Ashura." Satsuma looked at the seven young people who were listening to his story.

"The origin of the name of the Kai Tiger Tournament is to commemorate and hope the ancestors if the future Kai Empire will have a warrior like Kagutsuchi Ashura. A great warrior like Kagutsuchi Ashura who can fight and protect the land of the Kai Empire and the Ezzo Continent from outsiders even though his enemy is the strongest creature!" Satsuma added.

Nagato let out a long sigh after hearing Azuma's story. His eyes were fixed on Hisui who looked so happy.

"I don't think this story is very interesting, so why does this spoiled boy look so happy?" Nagato sat up while looking at Hisui.

"I love this story, Kagutsuchi Ashura is my role model, I will become a Queen who will protect both the Kai Empire and the Ezzo Continent from the hands of evil!" Hisui laughed happily after speaking clearly. Meanwhile Iris, Litha, Hika and Tika were shocked, while Hanabi just kept quiet and listened.

"This spoiled brat has a noble purpose and dream, one day after you grow up, I want to see it." Nagato sat up and looked at the smile of Hisui's face meaningfully, seeing that Iris snorted in annoyance.

"Dragon!" Iris puffed her cheeks looking at Nagato.

"This story is less interesting, I prefer the story of the Flying Whale that I often hear from Litha." Nagato looked at Hisui who was staring at him sharply.

"Handsome sister didn't like the story earlier, Brother Litha tried to tell me about the story that handsome sister meant." Hisui changed seats, the adorable-eyed girl was now sitting next to Litha.

"Eh? Oh Nagato, why are you talking about that!" Litha snorted in annoyance.

"Litha I want to hear it, I'm curious about the story." Iris also looked at Litha expectantly.

"Are you going to laugh at me after I tell you about that fairyland?" Litha smiled doubtfully looking at those friends. They all just shook their heads.

Not how long Litha began to tell about the fairyland in the sky, a land inhabited only by the Elf Race. The Elf race had a residence on the backs of the Flying Whales. A Flying Whale that always wades through the sea of clouds and travels the world is always moving places.

Nagato smiled when he saw Iris and the others not laughing at Litha. Finished telling the story, Litha stared at the ground and averted her eyes.

"Will they be like the others?" Litha remembers being laughed at when she told her friends about the Flying Whale in Roshima City.

Hisui looked very amazed by Litha. "Great .. right said the handsome brother, the Flying Whale story is better than Grandpa Azuma's story." Hika and Tika said, "Litha, Litha, who do you know this story from? Later that night we sleep one room yeah, we both want to hear another story."

Litha was surprised to see the response of her friends, she timidly looked at the faces of her friends who were amazed by the story of the Flying Whale.

"Please eat this, you guys haven't had breakfast yet. It's daytime, don't eat late, because you're in growth." Satsuma came with soup and rice.

"Thank you Grandpa Azuma..." Hisui helped Satsuma put the plates and glasses.

"Grandfather don't bother..." Hanabi who was silent started talking.

"Hanabi we better take grandfather's offer, after all we haven't had breakfast." Tika held Hanabi's hand and smiled at her. Hanabi just nodded slowly and looked at Tika's face.

Iris, Hika and Litha were chatting, not how long they all sat in a circle before eating the dishes that Satsuma had served.

"Good meal..."

Nagato and the others ate the food voraciously, Satsuma himself felt happy because he had not chatted with this many people other than Hisui for a long time.

After lunch, Iris and the others went back to listening to Litha's story. Nagato falls asleep under a cherry tree with Chibi sleeping on her stomach.

Hanabi just silently listened to Litha's story. The girl who had pinkish black hair was fond of Litha's story but showed no interested expression.

As the sun's rays got warmer against the skin, Nagato was still asleep, he had forgotten his goal of taking Iris and others for a walk to enjoy the hottest food in the restaurant whose name is quite striking in the Capital of Daifuzen.

"Mother..." Nagato muttered softly when he saw the face of a woman on top of his face, when his eyes opened completely, the face of Iris who was about to wake Nagato made the young man surprised.

"What was your Dragon nightmare?" Iris asked Nagato. Shamefully Nagato covered his eyes with his hands, then he muttered softly, "I dreamt of seeing an angel .. the figure of an angel who was very similar to my late mother." Nagato stared at Iris for quite a long time.

"Who is an angel who looks like your late mother?" Iris' response made Nagato rise from his sleeping position and whisper softly in Iris's ear. "Take a guess who? He's right now near me." Nagato stood up and walked over to Satsuma to say thank you. She did not care about Iris who was blushing in shame.

"Uncle Satsuma thanks for the dinner. We came back first, thanks to Uncle Satsuma this whole day was pretty fun." Nagato glanced at Iris who was looking to take his eyes off when he looked at the beautiful girl. Nagato walked towards the stairs and saw the twilight on top of this beautiful hill, visible in the afternoon sky if the sun sank slowly.

"Beautiful ... Hisui had just this time seen a scene like this in Kagutsuchi Shrine..." The girl with my eyes smiled gently while standing beside Litha.

"Hanabi do you like this view?" Nagato glanced at Hanabi who was standing beside Iris.

"Lumayan, it's not bad to also spend the whole day with you guys," Hanabi replied as she looked at Nagato's face. The quiet girl only realized that Nagato looked handsome with a cold but distant look in the eyes of the young man implied a sadness. Seeing that Hanabi was silent.

"Sweety boy, thank you for accompanying us..." Nagato stroked Hisui's hair before walking down the stairs.

They descended the stairs and returned to the East Sun Inn. Hisui followed Nagato and the others to return to the Eastern Sun Inn. On the way they all smiled in satisfaction after enjoying the beautiful places in the Capital of Daifuzen.

"The places Hisui shows are all very beautiful. I won't get bored living here..." Litha stroked Hisui's fine hair and spoiled the adorable-eyed girl.

"But my place is more beautiful because it is surrounded by forests and there are waterfalls, wind hills and much more" said Litha added..

"Other times ask Hisui yes Brother Litha..." The girl with my eyes smiled softly at Litha.

"Yes my sister..." Litha pinched Hisui's cheek gently as she felt anxious to see the girl with eyes.

On the way to the East Sun Lodge that passes through the city streets, where at night the city streets look more crowded than yesterday. Nagato and the others passed through the restaurant in the middle of the city, Nagato's eyes were directed at three strangers. He had seen the three people in Fusha City.

"They?" Nagato stopped walking for a few seconds, the six girls who saw him also stopped.

"What's the big brother?" Hisui was puzzled to see Nagato raising his eyebrows.

"There's nothing." Nagato walked back and turned softly in his heart, "I didn't see the three of them in the Tiger Circle Arena. What's the matter exactly?"

After arriving at the Eastern Sun Inn, Hisui had already picked Yuki up with some servants from Hizen Palace. Meanwhile Nagato and the others returned to their rooms, among them they went to bathe like Nagato, Iris and Litha. There are also those who play fireworks with young warriors from the Kitakaze Clan such as Hika and Tika. While Hanabi returned to the Misuzawa Clan's lodging room and told Hana about her activities today but the pink black haired girl did not tell Hana about Satsuma.

While at the same time in the middle of the city restaurant, Shin, Take and Ohta are eating food. They betiga were also talking about Nagato.

"Sir Shin why can't we involve him?!" As usual, Take looks so emotional.

"Damn! I don't have to how else, who can we trust .. I'm sorry for believing in every word of that fucking Nezusaki!" Ohta slammed the glass with wine.

"Don't talk about this in public!" Shin reprimanded the two people who had been with him for the past few years.

"We move places and find Kujo! We have to tell the boy the truth. About the man who killed his parents!" Shin stood up and returned in a white robe with his white hood, while his face was covered in a white cloth. Take and Ohta look the same as Shin.

They made suspicious movements.

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