Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 203 - Kuro's identity

Gyuki smiled looking at Tika who had walked away from her eyes, the sweet twin girl made Gyuki become very relieved to have seen her in person.

"Wait a minute, why did Agata Izawa and Iwata Jishin resign from the start of the Tiger Tournament of Kai?" Gyuki was full of questions.

"Ah, forget it, I don't really care either." Gyuki said softly and looked at the spectator bench occupied by the Agata Clan and the Izawa Clan that was only filled by ordinary warriors and no clan higher figure was seen there. "Suspicious, this is not a coincidence that occurs simultaneously..." Gyuki muttering.

The audience waited for the next game, not how long the referee who had been silent began to speak again.

"Hisui, I mean Princess Hisui and Muromachi Midorimachi please come forward!" Gyuki casually looked at the cynical face of Emperor Hizen.

"Just like me he has a double personality." Gyuki was inward when she saw Emperor Hizen's sharp gaze.

As usual Hisui always sought attention with Nagato. The cute-eyed girl walked around to descend to the center of the Tiger Circle Arena field, she twisted past the seats of the warriors from the Fuyumi Clan.

"Sightly Brother!" Hisui held onto Nagato's shoulder and it made Iris feel a little annoyed.

"What's up, spoiled brat?" Nagato did not seem too excited to answer. Hisui just smiled, then he glanced at Iris a little.

Hisui looked at Iris with teary eyes looking terrified, seeing that cute eyes of mine made Iris redden her face.

"Well, please..." Iris saturate the softness in her heart. Then his hand unconsciously pinched Hisui's cheek gently.

"Eh? Brother Iris?" Hisui was puzzled to see Iris touching her cheek. Iris herself was also shocked because she subconsciously wanted to touch Hisui's cheek.

With her cold-looking face, Iris calmly crossed her hands on her chest. "Hurry down, wasn't your name called!" Iris's orders.

Litha laughed softly at the change in Iris' attitude. Then he smiled gently at Hisui and made the adorable-eyed girl not to become frightened.

"Hisui go first" Hisui told Iris and Litha. While Nagato still remained silent staring at Gyuki who was the referee.

Litha glanced at Iris and smiled faintly. "Hisui looks so cute, when we're only a year apart, but I feel like she's like my cute little sister."

"She's been spoiled too often" said Iris ketus.

"Then anyway? You didn't knowingly touch her cheek, did you?" Litha complained to Iris while touching her right arm to Iris's left arm.

"Basar Litha, don't tease me." Iris turned her face to the side.

Along with the match that will be re-done, the, in the hallway of the Tiger Circle Arena treatment room, one of the Ten Kai Elders named Kuro invited warriors from the Agata Clan and the Iwata Clan to go to an empty room in the Tiger Circle Arena.

Arriving at the empty room filled with only candles, the leader of the Agata Clan named Agata Kata stared intently at Kuro.

"No way, are you really that Chosu? But this is impossible, impossible, because your face is Kuro's face?" Said gulped and made sure.

Kuro took off his robe and displayed a sun symbol to Kata and the others. They were all shocked to see it, a symbol that only the official retainers of Kagutsuchi Pandu and Kagutsuchi Sura had. It proves that Kuro is a follower of Kagutsuchi Pandu.

"This sounds like an oddity that is difficult to digest with the mind. My face changed after losing control of the anger, hatred and malice that ruled my entire body and made me end up like this." Kuro in a soft voice told an unbelievable truth. Kuro's true identity is Chosu. And Chosu is a Pandu follower.

"So you are the one who gave orders to us from the Agata Clan and the Iwata Clan to bring in large numbers of warriors to the Daifuzen Capital?" The word again asked and answered a nod of the head by Chosu.

"Seven years ago I became what I am today. I heard that Mr. Pandu has died with all five of his protectors and his son and wife. I lost my mind, tried to stay sane in a crazy state back then, and that was a very difficult thing for me." Chosu sat on the chair while taking out a drink.

"All of the Kagutsuchi Clan that survived had already lost all of their strength, the aura of the body covered and the poison that was in our bodies still continued to gnaw at our bodies at all times." Chosu stared at the drink bottle which was the combined liquid of the Artificial Holy Water and the cells of the Beast and Demon Beast. The water is able to make an ordinary man into a senseless savage man.

"I heard that Great Master Sura and us followers of Mr Pandu have not yet found the body?" Chosu glanced at Kata and the others.

"Yes, so far it has not been found. Pandu disciple Hayabusa had also made a ruckus about to kill Satra and Hizen nine years ago." Said sitting on the chair that was in that dark room.

A middle-aged man named Iwata Yamashita opened his eyes slowly, he was the Chairman of the Iwata Clan. Yamashita sat next to Kata. While other warriors such as Uritaka, Izawa, Kizawa and two warriors from the Iwata Clan stood beside their clan leaders.

"Is it true that night, someone from outside the Ezzo Continent was also involved in the massacre?" Yamashita asked Chosu as her hand held onto her wand.

"That's right. I still remember it. .., we were all helpless when the smoke we were breathing made our bodies so weak. I don't really know about the smoke, but I think it's something created by a country from outside the Ezzo Continent." Chosu replied while smiling wryly.

"Breathing is the most basic thing that has always been taught in the Kagutsuchi Clan. They have really made us unable to fight back, and I still remember Ten Elders Kai was not directly involved with that night, but they had trapped us with Emperor Hizen." Chosu looked at Yamashita. His eyes showed emotions of sadness.

"I had heard that the Ten Elders Kai and Emperor Hizen intended to hold a meeting at the Kagutsuchi Clan Residence at that time. But it is unbelievable that out of thousands of people, all that is left now is Grand Master Sura with the four of you." Yamashita wiped her tears.

"Emperor Hizen is a man of multiple personalities. He is the true heart demon. His envious and spiteful nature subconsciously made him fall into the darkness." Chosu told Yamashita and the others about Emperor Hizen being exposed to the Ancient Curse of the Heart Devil.

"The meeting was just a trap. When thousands of people in the Kagutsuchi Clan had fallen asleep at night, while only dozens of warriors were waiting for the arrival of the Ten Elders Kai and Hizen in the Sun Hall. In the middle of the night a smoke started covering everything, after a few hours, hundreds of people wearing masks attacked us." Chosu gritted his teeth but instead he vomited blood.

"Rigid? Even that smoke was able to render the breathing of the Kagutsuchi Clan helpless? It seems to be a civilization from outside the Ezzo Continent..." Yamashita gave her opinion.

Chosu wiped the blood coming out of his mouth. "It's okay, I'm used to it." Then he continued his words.

"They are people from outside the Ezzo Continent. Their strength is absolute, even we do not dwell in the slightest. About the condition of my body, I was able to survive until now thanks to the Breathing Chakra that I always work every day at night." Chosu smiled faintly while sighing deeply.

"Forget a moment about the past" Chosu said staring intently at Kata and the others.

"I'm inviting the Agata Clan and the Iwata Clan together because only you think can help me. My father is from Agata and my mother is from Iwata. That reason is enough for me." Yamashita and Kata smiled at Chosu's words.

"The real figure of Hizen and Satra intend to target Shirayuki. That was the information I just got recently while eavesdropping on the conversation of Satra and Hizen." Chosu took the paper from his clothes.

"On this paper is all the information I've been getting for seven years. About slavery, the armory, the Devil Worship Sect and much more. Four or five more years, the Kai Empire is already on the verge of a boundary." Yamashita and Kata clenched their teeth while reading Chosu's writing as well as the swordsman who came with them.

Chosu during his disguise as Kuro has learned of Satra's relationship with the Eight-Finger Organization in human trafficking. While the Night Profit Organization has a business of buying and selling weapons with Satra.

Chosu also found an arsenal scattered in two large warehouses in the Capital of Daifuzen while for the other two in Mikazuchi City. The total number of weapons storage places Satra had collected over the past decades were four weapons storage warehouses.

Even Chosu was also aware of the relationship between Satra and Gore who was the leader of the Demon Worshiping Sect.

Kata and Yamashita realized that Emperor Genki's decision to marry two women after his first wife died was a mistake. For the sake of getting offspring and heir to the throne made everything turn in a dark direction.

Even Emperor Genki himself was not the true heir to the throne of the Kai Empire. Because the last blood heir to the throne of the Kai Empire is the Furigiri Family.

"The Demon Heart Ancient Curse turned out to have long since been reborn in the body of Emperor Hizen..." The word cold sweat when remembering the words of Chosu.

"I played the role of Kuro for seven years, this year I will end it by killing Hizen. He was a person who was unaware of the evil he was doing and considered himself a saint, that was very ridiculous at all." Chosu stared at the candle.

"Do you seriously want to do it, Chosu?" Yamashita asked Chosu.

"Yes, you just have to do everything that's written on that paper." Chosu is aware that he is not able to last much longer but this is what he has to do.

"Killing Ten Elders Kai and Emperor Hizen. That was our last plan." Said murmuring quietly.

"Iwata is only a neutral clan but Kagutsuchi Sura is a role model of us all. Tell us all about the actual night of the massacre, Chosu?" Yamashita with a heavy heart wanted to know more clearly. Knowing how the end of the Kagutsuchi Clan.

"I don't know the exact past history of the Kai Empire, but Master Sura knows it better than the rest of us. Our enemies are not people from outside the Ezzo Continent alone but people from the Ezzo Continent even the Kai Empire itself can be our enemies." Chosu looked at Yamashita.

"There is no real news from Grand Master Sura .. whether he is alive or dead, we do not know it" Yamashita replied.

"The impact is not just the Kai Empire but the entire Ezzo Continent. We already know that the Kinai Empire, the Rakuza Empire and the Azbec Magic Kingdom have been overrun by a false ruler. In my opinion, the Kai Empire is too," said Kata while biting her lower lip.

"The Furigiri family is actually the heir to the throne of the Kai Empire but we already know it, ever since Emperor Genki's wife who had the last blood Furigiri died before having offspring. Then the Kai Empire has fallen into the wrong hands, you can see the face of Emperor Genki who looks very pale every day." Chosu smiled faintly and leaned back. "A face like that is a face that shows regret, but from here it is already seen the outline. Kagutsuchi and Furigiri have vanished from history. Akaramizarawa kept the promise of his ancestors and other clans such as Fuyumi, Misuzawa, Agata, Akatsuki, Iwata, and others, Kitakaze and Mangetsu were only victims of the blood oaths of Hizen and Satra by persuading Emperor Genki to perform the oath."

"We must stop him ... to end the Yamata Family legacy!" Chosu added.

Said frowning his forehead. "The families of Emperor Genki and Emperor Hizen are not the same, it's just that the mother of Hizen came from the Yamata Family who supposedly once ruled the entire Ezzo Continent. But they managed to vanish from the history of 2000 years ago upon the arrival of the Kagutsuchi Clan to the Ezzo Continent. It was a story that was only hereditary told by the previous clan leader and was always told to the heir of the new Agata Clan leader." A wide smile was seen on Kata's face and not how long she laughed. "I shouldn't have told you this, but, never mind. It's all gone."

Chosu's face was suddenly serious, his hands fused together and trembled. "Yamura! I think the Orochi of the Rakuza Empire are also from the same family as Hizen!" Chosu was pale in face.

Yamashita looked at Chosu's deathly pale face with her narrowed eyes.

"Tell us all about that night, Chosu. I want to make sure and make a decision. Maybe this year it's time for me to relinquish my post as clan leader and give a better path to the younger generation." Yamashita smiled faintly but that smile was stared at sharply by Chosu.

Chosu looked at everyone who would cooperate with him. Now he had made up his mind to kill Emperor Hizen with his own hands.

"If you want to hear the true story from me then listen, after that you are free to think. This story begins with marriage..." Chosu begins the story. Yamashita, Kata, Uritaka, Izawa, Kizawa and two warriors from the Iwata Clan heard a long story from a past. About two families who have been in a long feud.

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At the same time as Kuro's identity was revealed in front of Yamashita and the others, in the middle of the field of the Tiger Circle Arena presented an interesting match.

Hisui looks ready to fight the young man who will be his opponent in the last 32 of the Tournament of Tigers Kai named Muromachi Midorimachi.

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**Bonus 5 Chapter.

Capable of 5 chapters.

There's a rush tonight, so I'm up now. Afraid that kemaleman even forget me.

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