Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 192 - Hayabusa Plan and New Partners

Once again the sun shone softly on the morning sky of the Capital of Daifuzen. Today the streets of the city look more crowded than yesterday, very dense and noisy of course. Nagato and the others left early for the Tiger Circle Arena.

Spectators jostled to see firsthand the last 32 of the Tiger Kai Tournament. Among all those people were some intruders who were intending to launch their grand plan during the semi-finals. The intruders of the Rakuza Empire intend to begin the plan of annihilating the Kai Empire military along with the Hizen Emperor family when the Tiger Tournament of Kai reaches the round of 4.

There is something different from today, the referee of the round of 32 match was led by the son of Commander Goro and Sachie. A man with tied hair, while his face looks fierce but his attitude that looks bored staring at everyone makes the figure of Gyuki who is the referee attract everyone's attention.

Some onlookers started talking about Gyuki's figure yawning in the middle of the Arena Circle field.

"He did not want to go into the military. Too bad Commander Goro has a son like him." One of the male audience members spoke up and started talking about Gyuki.

"I heard Gyuki was living with Commander Goro when she was an adult." The other audience.

"Don't talk carelessly! Anyway Gyuki is the son of Commander Goro. The descendants of the Akaramizarawa Family have been protecting the Kai Empire for thousands of years, we should not talk bad things to them." The middle-aged man glared at the words of the man sitting beside him.

"Although Gyuki looks like a lazy person but his strength is predicted to almost match the Commander of Goro. The fruit fell not far from the tree." A man responded to the words of two people who were having different opinions.

"That's no doubt. However, Gyuki's full name is Akaramizarawa Gyuki, the son of Akaramizarawa Goro. It is better to be the referee of the Akaramizarawa Family, because they are a neutral and independent family. We just enjoy the match presented by the old men who claim to be the elders!" A man wearing a white robe spoke up. That man was Kuromachi Shin.

The audience who sat close to the three white-robed men became curious about their identities. Some also started to stay away because their appearance was very suspicious.

"They act arbitrarily because we are bound by the oath of the decree of blood. I was ready to kill one of those ten people, but I was more interested in killing Nezusaki and Satra!" Take stared intently at Nezusaki who was sitting escorted by dozens of warriors from the Kuromachi Clan.

"Cih, a swordsman but he did an embarrassing act! I didn't expect that fucking Nezusaki to be a sycophant and kill the people closest to him!" Ohta drank wine and looked drunk.

Shin and Take were also drinking wine, the three of them did not care if anyone heard their words.

"It's over if we kill Satra and the current emperor!" Ohta went back to drinking his wine and started talking.

"It won't be finished, until all the human scum is cleared from Kai's land. I just heard you guys say things you shouldn't talk about in public!" Mujin came in wearing a hood on his head. Yesterday he managed to escape from the assassin who was a member of my Akyaku thanks to Hayabusa's help.

Shin, Take and Ohta's faces turned pale as they had no choice but to fight Mujin.

"You? Mujin ... do you want to capture and sell us as slaves?!" Shin clenched his teeth looking at Mujin who looked as if he was staring intently at her.

"Sir Shin let's just kill him! If we die or become slaves, at least we manage to kill one of those ten rotten people!" Take holds his great sword.

"Three of you come with me! We'll solve this problem outside!" Mujin walked without waiting for answers from Shin, Take and Ohta. With a leisurely pace and walking in the crowd of many people, Mujin watched every corner of the stands filled by intruders from the Rakuza Empire.

Arriving outside the Tiger Circle Arena, Mujin walked back to the very grand eatery of the building. In a special room, Mujin continued to lead the three people who followed him to where Hayabusa was.

"Where did he take us? Is this the place of the fight he was referring to?!" Take frowned looking at Mujin who kept walking up the stairs of the diner.

Upstairs, in a special room Hayabusa had ordered. On the dining table has been served luxurious and delicious food that is clearly displayed by the three of them.

"Hayabusa has been observing your movements, the internal problems that occur in the Kuromachi Clan are very secret but you already know about it, right?" Mujin glanced at Shin, Take and Ohta. Upon seeing the three men nod, Mujin said, "Forget the blood oath. Throw away your surname, after all I have also been kicked out of the Ten Elders Kai seat. I don't know the details of the night of the bloody massacre, but I'm currently conscious. The person who replaced my position in the Ten Elders Kai seat was the leader of the Demon Worshiping Sect!"

"What?!"

Shin, Take and Ohta are shocked, the three of them think today is their deaths, considering Mujin and Hayabusa are seen working together. But that made the three of them even more surprised because Mujin was no longer a member of the Ten Elders Kai.

"At that time I didn't think broadly either, I guess if being Satra's friend and using my strength to protect Kai Empire in the Ten Elders Kai seat was the thing to be, it should be, but I must atone for my sins. I realize that I have sinned too much, I close my eyes every time I see people starving, sold into slavery and tortured by the nobility..." Mujin stared at the dining hall floor. Then he sat down on the chair and said, "All is clear now, neither the caste system and the absolute rules of Emperor Hizen nor the Ten Elders Kai are very unfair!" Hayabusa gestured for Shin, Take and Ohta who were standing up to sit down immediately. Then he spoke while looking at the three people Mujin managed to bring before him.

"The black book made by Satra was distributed to the western warriors. Their name on the black book was a list of people who knew the rottenness of the Ten Elders Kai! A thousand people were kidnapped and enslaved, a person named Satra bestowed all the blame on the Demon Worshiping Sect, considering that no one knew the figure of its leader, Satra accused his business partner named Gore. And Gore is the leader of the Demon Worshiping Sect whose name I recently came to know. Nobles who disagreed with the caste system were killed, and they again accused Boss Hyogoro of being the mastermind. The night of the massacre tragedy back then was something I could not forget .. They slaughtered everyone in the residence of the Kitakaze Kagutsuchi Clan and bestowed their guilt on my late teacher!" After everyone who could be invited as his companion sat down, Hayabusa drank wine and continued his words.

"You know why the Kagutsuchi Clan's emblem is a sun symbol? Ancestors of the Kagutsuchi Clan yearn for the dawn. Where everyone can be in the same sky in equality. That's what Great Master Sura told all of us. I don't really care about it, because I'm not part of the real Kagutsuchi Family. In the Azbec, thousands of witches used the sun symbol on their arms. Miss Sarah who is the wife of Master Pandu predicted about the figure of his son who will open the Ezzo Continent. Opening up does not mean letting the invaders from foreign lands damage and riot in the Ezzo Continent. Opening means uniting the entire Ezzo Continent under its name. I used to think that way..."

"At that time I had thought like that, but after seeing the condition of the Ezzo Continent which was increasingly concerning, I finally realized with the last words of Miss Sarah. Opening the Ezzo Continent that is meant by Miss Sarah is not making the entire country in the Ezzo Continent into the territory of the children of Master Pandu and Miss Sarah. But Miss Sarah believes that her son will make everyone in the Ezzo Continent coexist and live in equality!" Hayabusa herself is searching for the child of Pandu and Sarah because she thinks the child is still alive.

"Why do you know Azbec witches have a sun symbol on their arms?" Take asked a question after drinking Hayabusa's wine.

"You?! That's the wine I ordered! Yeah, never mind..." Hayabusa shook her head to stay conscious. "I have an acquaintance there, if not wrong he sells cold drinks that are very good taste. Forget it, I'll tell you, but you won't understand what I mean either." Take drank wine and slammed the glass on the table.

"Sadly, stupid for that. The child foretold, I don't care, all we have to do is finish off" Shin covered Take's mouth with the fish meat.

"Take! Keep talking!" Shin emotionfully looked at Take who had always been like this when drunk.

"Enough bases! Hayabusa you drank too much, lucky I have come out of the Ten Elders Kai. Everything that comes out of your mouth is very valuable information!" Mujin rebuked Hayabusa who was still drinking.

"You're kicked! Remember that!" Hayabusa smiled faintly at Mujin. "I purposely told you about this, in the hope that we could work together."

"Well, I'll work with you, Hayabusa. I represent these two stupid friends of mine!" Shin accepted Hayabusa's invitation to cooperate.

"Do you know the city that was once known as the City of Cain Producers?" Hayabusa looked at Mujin, Shin, Take and Ohta seriously.

"Isn't that Helai City?" Mujin raised his eyebrows staring at Hayabusa.

"Truely, it's the City of Strands." Shin responded to Hayabusa's words.

"Now the City of Helai is known as the largest fabric craftsman and weapon maker in the Kai Empire even the supply of weapons from the City of Helai covers the entire mainland of the Ezzo Continent. The city of cloth artisans is no match with Helai City, considering that the weapons factory there is very profitable for the population and the number should not be asked again. Of course with a considerable amount." Hayabusa clenched her hands.

"You mean someone with a lot of money buying and collecting weapons from Helai City?" Shin quite deftly understood the meaning of Hayabusa's words.

"Yes, someone gathered weapons to trigger a great war in the Kai Empire. The one who was the mastermind was Satra!" Mujin, Shin, Take and Ohta are shocked because it is likely that Satra has far greater ambitions than sparking a war in the Kai Empire.

"Satra!" Mujin clenched his teeth and said, "So this is the reason why Helai City has been a weapons-producing city for the past few years. I think Satra has a bigger ambition than sparking a war!" Shin who heard Mujin's response certainly noticed it.

"Satra wants to become the new Emperor Kai and kill anyone who doesn't submit to him!" Shin gave an opinion.

"A place where the strong lead and the weak are oppressed, it is the thought of a stranger who came from outside Ezzo. The past few years have been increasingly widespread thinking of such trash on the Ezzo Continent." Mujin recalled Satra's words about his ambition, he thought Satra was just joking but now it has proven clear.

Hayabusa responded to Mujin and Shin's words.

"Yes, that's the goal. I'm pretty sure about this. If Satra had managed to kill the Hizen Emperor's family, it would not have been impossible, given the number of weapons he had accumulated over the past few years, he could have made the Tiger Kai Tournament into a sea of blood in an instant. Only, Satra was a very calculated person, he would not do anything rash when the Rakuza Empire and some underground Organizations had the same goal as him. Given Satra's a very calculated person, I'm sure sooner or later chaos will occur in the Kai Empire. We don't know if it was Satra who planned it or the Rakuza Empire. But we also have to move on our own." Hayabusa looked at Shin and Mujin as the two people who understood her intentions the most.

"What matters is that we only need to kill Satra and Emperor Hizen. Then it's all done..." Take shook his head many times before his head leaned against Ohta's shoulder.

"Disregard these two, just continue on Hayabusa." Shin looked at Hayabusa very seriously.

"Our goal is the same, to bring down the caste system by killing the Ten Elders Kai!" Hayabusa ended the conversation when Mujin, Shin, Take and Ohta nodded in agreement.

"I offer this cooperation with all of you!" Hayabusa herself was not a naive person. To stop the chaos of course he can not alone do it, all need sacrifice, there will certainly be casualties and he can not stop it.

After the five men agree to cooperate, Hayabusa, Mujin, Shin, Take and Ohta make a move to gather information on the places where the intruders from the Rakuza Empire are staying and where the weapons are hidden by Satra.

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