Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
The Dawn 9: Kashima Shinden
“Can you move? If you can go..” Nagato looked at the two remaining guards.
The girl Nagato saved immediately stood up and held Nagato's shoulder.
“Let me finish them off!” The girl formed a blade from the aura and threw it towards the eyes of one of the guards who turned into a Fire Monkey.
Nagato learns that the girl he just saved has fighting abilities. Then he gestured for Chibi to go back up to his shoulders before helping Hayabusa and Panda.
“Hayabusa, this creature is like a Beast, but isn't this human blood?” Panda stared at his palm covered in fresh blood.
Hayabusa understood that what they killed was a human being. There was no other choice but to kill them.
“To free them from suffering. The only way is to kill. Someone has to do it, Panda.” Hayabusa understood a little when Nagato said the difference between himself and Pandu.
Hayabusa resumed his assault with the help of Panda.
“Panda, you broke their legs. I'll cut his neck!” Hayabusa shouted as she leaped into the air before releasing dozens of wind slashes.
Panda again launched dozens of his palms to break the legs of the Beast Man. Every time he broke and dropped the leg of the Beast Man, Hayabusa immediately cut off the neck of the Beast Man with both of her swords.
Any Vast Man who dies his body will vanish without a trace. Panda was shocked by what she had just experienced. But the fresh blood on his palm was real.
“Panda, don't daydream!” Nagato cut off the hand of the Beast Man who was about to hit the Panda.
“Eh, I'm sorry.” The panda gasped in surprise when it saw the Beast Man had surrounded it.
Nagato again used Shinku to stop the movement of the Beast Man.
“Hayabusa, I will stop them! You just finish them off!” When the body of the Beast Man was exposed to Nagato's bullying aura, they were unable to move.
Hayabusa only smiled with a grin and directly followed Nagato's instructions to finish off the Beast Man.
“Their number is getting smaller. But their hiding place has been destroyed. Do we need to check it?” Hayabusa flicked her two swords and stared at the passageway of the destroyed hideout.
“Think of that later. Now we have to finish them all.” Nagato again moved to cut off the legs of the Beast Man before jumping upward with a slash that hit his target's neck.
The raid of the hideout of the Demon Worshiping Sect on the border between the Kai Empire and the Kinai Empire went smoothly. But Nagato never thought it would be as easy as he thought.
After finishing off the entire Beast Man, Nagato and Hayabusa noticed the girl who had killed one of the guards and was now fighting fiercely against the remaining guards.
“Changing the human body into a Vast Animal. I'd rather die than answer a senseless creature.” Hayabusa stared at the guard who changed his form into a Fire Monkey.
Nagato looked at Chibi and gestured for the white cat to find another way to the hideout. According to him, there are some documents at the headquarters that became the testing ground for the Beast Man.
Hayabusa and Panda observe the Fire Ape fight against the girl Nagato saved. After the girl killed the Fire Ape by burning its neck, the two of them directly followed Nagato from behind.
Chibi leads Nagato into the ruins of the headquarters of the Demon Worshiping Sect. There are some documents about the experimental material. After reading it, Nagato burned the document with his body aura.
“Doing massacres and experiments is a hobby? Don't joke!” Nagato clicked his tongue and burned all the documents present in the hideout of the Demon Worshiping Sect.
“Better we destroy all these bases.” Hayabusa felt they had to cover the tracks so that there was nothing troublesome while continuing their search.
Nagato agreed with Hayabusa's opinion so as to directly destroy all the items in the headquarters.
A short while after they destroyed the entire hideout, the girl who had just recovered her strength walked over to Nagato.
“Thanks for saving me.” The girl spoke softly.
Hayabusa and Panda followed Nagato from behind. For Panda, she felt the girl was in trouble but after fearing the opinion of her being the Animal Man, Panda finally chose to follow Nagato.
“I no longer have a place to go home..” The girl answered Nagato's words.
At that moment Nagato's footsteps stopped. Maybe it was because he found out how painful it was to have nowhere to go, so he stopped his footsteps.
“How did the four of you find this headquarters?” The girl immediately looked at Nagato, Hayabusa, Chibi and Panda.
“This is the hiding place of the Demon Worshiping Sect. Aren't you guys afraid of this group?” The girl asked.
“I will kill the leader of this group. No reason to be afraid or to retreat.” Nagato looked at the girl's eyes.
“You, tell me what your name is? Aren't you an kunoichi? I guess you're from the Kinai Empire, aren't you?” As a former General of the Kai Empire of course Hayabusa knew some of the techniques that the girl used when fighting.
The girl sighed softly, “I am just a temple girl named Kashima Shinden.” The girl introduced herself.
“Shrine girl? Then why were you arrested?” Hayabusa asked again.
“Are you the type of guy who is curious about a girl's past?” Kashima Shinden was visibly upset when Hayabusa kept asking her questions.
Nagato glanced at the Panda hiding behind his back. Then he noticed Hayabusa arguing with Kashima.
“Your name is Shinden, right? Why did you get caught by them?” Nagato asked because he felt that the girl named Kashima Shinden had a reason to be caught by the Demon Worshiping Sect.
Kashima walked up to Nagato before sitting down to look at the headquarters of the Devils Worshiping Sect that had been destroyed.
“Yes, my name is Kashima Shinden.” Kashima replied briefly before explaining the situation to Nagato, “ The man who picked me up has died. I was captured and sold to the Demon Worshiping Sect by the Eight Fingers Organization because I was an Kunoichi. I am a ninja from the Wind Mist Village who has perished.” Kashima clearly sighed softly.
Kunoichi is a female ninja. Kashima soon stared into Nagato's eyes after explaining briefly about him.
“You want to destroy this rotten group, don't you? Let me help you guys. Because sooner or later, your actions will provoke the fury of the underground organizations that exist in the Kinai.” Empire Kashima approached Nagato before seeing Panda at close range.
“This black and white bear is your pet?” Ask Kasihama to Nagato.
“I'm Panda, another bear!” Panda immediately replied to Kashima's words fiercely.
“He can actually talk? Wait, I didn't hear wrong, did I? Is it because I've never hung out with anyone before?” Kashima touches Panda's body and is confused.
“Shinden. What purpose do you want to help us for some other reason? If there is, tell me!” Nagato looked at Kashima who was holding Panda's body.
Kashima fell silent and remembered the words of her adoptive parents. As a child who was the sole survivor of the massacre, Kashima believed in no one. But her parents once told her that if you want to have friends, you have to open the shackles that hold your heart.
“I want to liberate my homeland, by overthrowing the puppet ruler. I'll release him.” Kashima looked carefully at Nagato, Hayabusa, Panda and Chibi, “After seeing you, I wanted to be your friend.”
Kashima's answer was received both by Panda and Chibi. While Nagato was silent and did not comment, Hayabusa scratched his ear with her little finger.
“You must be looking for a reason to be close to him, right?” Hayabusa alludes to Nagato's good looks on Kashima.
“Yes, that's one of them. After I lost everything. You cold-faced man, you saved me. There is no other choice for me as an kunoichi to return the favor. And you I consider as my master.” Kashima replied to Hayabusa's words quickly while looking at Nagato.
“Do as you please. But you have to get used to this strange group.” Nagato walked over immediately after saying so.
“Hayabusa, haven't you come to the Kinai Empire before. We find the nearest city to rest.” Nagato looked at the overcast sky.
The aware Hayabusa immediately led the way towards the city close to their location.